Lady Scots split four softball games

By ROB HAMILTON

Highland’s week in soft­ball got off to a slow start when they dropped an 11–0 deci­sion to Jonathan Alder last Monday.

The Pio­neers won the game in five innings, as they scored four in the first, three in the third and four more in the fifth to fin­ish the contest.

Cassie Brown struck out three and walked one in suf­fer­ing the loss. The Scots fin­ished with four sin­gles in the game.

The Scots rebounded the next night to edge Pleas­ant by a 9–7 count in 10 innings.

High­land led 6–3 after four frames, but the Spar­tans scored once in the fifth and three times in the sixth to move in front.

The Scots were able to score once in the top of the sev­enth, though, to send the game to extra innings. Then, in the 10th, they added two more runs to win the road game.

Shayla Pierce struck out six and walked one to pick up the win for High­land. The team sur­vived seven errors thanks to crack­ing 16 hits in the contest.

The biggest of those knocks was a two-run homer by Kenzi Rhodes in the 10th inning to pro­vide the win­ning runs. Rhodes, along with Brown, Katie John­son and Hai­ley Moore, had mul­ti­ple hits in the game for Highland.

Brown, Jessie Stew­art, John­son and Moore all had dou­bles in the con­test; while Ray­chel Shaf­fer con­tributed a triple.

On Wednes­day, a pair of four-run innings doomed the Scots at home against River Val­ley. The Vikings had big innings in the sec­ond and third, as they took an 8–4 win over Highland.

Pierce suf­fered the loss, walk­ing two bat­ters in the game. High­land was held to three hits, includ­ing a two-run home run by Stew­art and a dou­ble by Pierce.

On Friday, the Scots recov­ered to top North­mor 4–3 in eight innings. The Knights took a 2–0 lead in the fifth inning, but the Scots tied the game in the sixth.

High­land then scored twice in the top of the eighth inning. While North­mor tal­lied a run in the bot­tom of the inning, the Scots would hold on to win.

Pierce struck out 10 and walked three. Of Highland’s four hits in the con­test, one was a two-run home run in the sixth inning by Moore and another was a dou­ble by Brown. John­son added two singles.

For the Knights, Whit­ney Clever suf­fered the loss, strik­ing out four and walk­ing one. North­mor fin­ished with five hits in the contest.

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