Lady Jackets score in bunches, sweep Whippets 17-2, 12-4
The Mount Vernon Lady Yellow Jackets ran their season record to 11-2 and 6-0 in Ohio Cardinal Conference play with back-to-back wins over West Holmes, 17-2 and 12-4.
On April 19, the Lady Jackets bombed three home runs and put up crooked numbers in every inning to go ahead 17-0 before allowing two fifth-inning runs to West Holmes. Lilly Erb led off with a single to start the Jackets’ first. After two outs, McKenzie Krownapple singled on the first pitch to drive in Erb, and Emma Calkins followed with a two-run home run to right to make it 3-0. In the second, Kiannah Harris singled for the Jackets and scored on a double by Rhyli Pope. A one-run single by Erb made it 5-0, and the Lady Jackets never looked back as four more runs in the third made it 9-0.
Calkins, Addison Christopher and Mac Schlosser homered for Mount Vernon, and Krownapple led the 16-hit attack with three hits (3-for-3) and three runs scored. Christopher drove in three runs and scored three times.
Rhyli Pope got the win the in the circle, pitching five innings and striking out nine.
The following day, a five-run second inning put Mount Vernon in the driver’s seat as the Lady Jackets again got the better of the Whippets, 10-4. Behind 1-0 in the second, Krownapple led off with a double and scored on an error. With one out, Harris singled to left and stole second base, and two errors scored the Jackets’ second and third runs. A single by Kelly Sullins drove in a run, and a single by Erb made it 5-1 Lady Jackets.
Thirteen hits were divided among seven Jackets, led by a 3-for-3 performance by Sullins. Pope drove in three and smashed a home run, and Harris scored three runs. Pope and Emily Burke pitched in the win.
Lady Scots score big in later innings to beat Harding 12-4 , Shelby 6-1
Highland’s Lady Scots seem to wake up their bats later in the games, as they scored three runs in the third and poured it on with two in the sixth and five in the seventh to down Marion Harding, 12-4, on April 14; and they put four runs on the board in the fourth and two in the sixth to down Shelby, 6-1, on April 20.
Against Harding, RBI hits by Emma West, Brooklyn Croy, Guinevere Jackson and Adyson Landefeld powered the Lady Scots in the decisive inning, and against Shelby, down 1-0, Faith Geiger walked, Landefeld doubled, Audrey Robinson sacrificed, West singled and Croy homered to go up 4-1.
The Lady Scots outhit Harding 10-5 and were paced by Geiger, Abi Burke and Robinson with three hits each. Geiger and Guinevere Jackson each finished with three RBIs. Emma West pitched a complete game to earn the win for Highland, allowing one earned run and striking out seven.
Against the Shelby Whippets, Landefeld and Jackson each had two of the Lady Scots’ seven hits. Landefeld slashed two doubles. Stevie Asher pitched seven innings, allowing four hits and one run, walking four and striking out six.
Longsdorf one-hits Blue Devils in 13-0 rout by Lady Pirates
Genevieve Longsdorf was stellar on the slab and at the plate, and she got all of the run support she needed as Cardington-Lincoln gave her four runs in the first. Longsdorf held Danville to one hit, walking four and striking out 10 in five shutout innings in the circle. As a hitter, Longsdorf went 2-for-2 with a double, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead the offense.
C-L made it a slaughter with four scores in the first, one in the second, six runs in the third and two in the fourth.
Seven Lady Pirates connected for hits. Joining Longsdorf with two knocks was Mac Linkous, and Dana Bertke drove in three runs with a triple. Taryn Mickley got the Blue Devils’ only hit.
Smith blasts two homers as Lady Bulldogs smash Lady Knights, 17-1
East Knox’s Natalie Smith powered the Lady Bulldogs to a 17-1 shellacking of Northmor on April 20 by belting two home runs and driving in seven in a game that was not in doubt after Smith rocked a grand slam in EK’s seven-run second inning and followed with a three-run shot in the five-run third.
The East Knox blowout started with one out in the second. Hannah McCoy walked and Kayla Finch singled. Maddy Cotsamire singled in a run, and Baylee Comer singled in another run. Nataley Hull bunted safely to load the bases, and Smith lined a grand slam to left to make it 7-0. Shanda Melick followed with a triple and scored on a wild pitch. In the next inning, six straight EK hits, including a three-run bomb by Smith, put the game away at 13-0.
EK outhit Northmor 15-4 as seven Lady Bulldogs got hits. In addition to Smith’s two round-trippers, Comer and Melick each had three hits, and four EK players added two hits apiece.
Cotsamire pitched three one-hit scoreless innings, and Smith came in to pitch the final two, allowing only one run.
