PEA RIDGE -- Pea Ridge pounded Prairie Grove pitching for 10 runs on 17 hits highlighted by freshman nine-hole hitter Aidan Dayberry, who hit a home run her first varsity at-bat.
The Lady Tigers suffered a 10-3 loss on Monday, March 5, at Pea Ridge. After leading 4-3 through four innings, the Lady Blackhawks broke the game open with 6 runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Lady Blackhawk starter Stephanie Chase pitched the complete game, allowing 3 runs on 7 hits with 6 strikeouts and 1 base-on-balls. She held the Lady Tigers scoreless over the final three innings.
Prairie Grove left 8 runners on base. Of the Lady Tigers' 9 hits only 2 were doubles. Senior Katharine McConnell went 2-for-4 with a double, 1 RBI and a run scored. Freshman Sydney Stearman was 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored. Senior Madi Vinson scored the other run after getting aboard with a base-on-balls.
In the opposite batter's box, the Lady Blackhawks produced up and down the lineup with Hollyn Davis, 2 hits, 1 RBI, 1 run scored; Blakelee Winn, 2 hits, 2 RBIs; Bailey Johnson, 3 hits, 2 runs scored; Haylee Fox, 2 hits, 2 RBIs, 1 run scored; Alecia Reyna, 2 hits, 3 runs scored; and Dayberry, 2 hits, 2 runs scored, 3 RBIs, contributing.
Both teams had a clean fielding game with no errors between them.
Sports on 04/11/2018