Winning two out of three games made a day of softball a success for the Logan County Lady Cougars Saturday in a tournament at Hart County. Coach Brandy Trimble’s young team won with ease over Caverna and Fort Knox but lost to Marion County, which won the championship.
LCHS 18, Caverna 2
This game was scoreless through two innings before the Lady Cougars broke it open with three straight six-run innings.
Senior Torrie Pollard and eighth grader Abby Canler each had two hits. Canler drove in three runs, as did Brea Croslin, who hit a two-run triple. Pollard and freshman Pressley Harris each doubled. Jillian McLellan had two RBIs.
Also getting a hit were Kennedy Nichols, Sydney Lee, Jillian McLean and Blayke Bingham. Harris scored three runs while Croslin, Pollard, Canler, Lee, Rosie Kerchenski and Bingham added two each. Lee walked three times and Nichols twice.
Eighth grader Sydney Lee pitched the win. She gave up two unearned runs on five hits and two walks while striking out seven. Fifty-eight of her 77 pitches were strikes.
LCHS 12, Ft. Knox 2
Abby Hinton, a seventh grader, played big roles in this win. She went two for two at the plate, driving in four runs. Additionally she pitched the final three innings of the five-inning game. She gave up no runs on one hit, no walks at three strikeouts. Only eight of her 34 pitches were called balls.
Lee was the starting pitcher. She worked two innings, giving up only one hit but she walked four, leading to the two runs.
Pollard, the team’s only upperclassman, doubled among her two hits. Also getting two hits were Croslin and Harris. Lee and Nichols added one each.
Three runs resulted from Sarah Beth Hale reaching twice, once on a fielder’s choice and the other on an error. McLellan had two RBIs with Lee and Nichols adding one each. Croslin, Pollard, Harris, McLellan and Hale scored two runs each.
Marion County 8, LCHS 2
Logan’s bats were quiet during this game, managing only five hits. They were singles by Pollard, Nichols, Harris, McLellan and Bingham.
The two runs came in the second inning. Nichols, the catcher, singled before giving way to courtesy runner Hale, who scored when Lee reached on an error. In fact, both of them scored.
Hinton was the Logan pitcher. She threw 81 pitches in six innings, two-thirds of them for strikes, but she allowed 13 hits and a walk.
The day’s action left the Lady Cougars with a 5-6 record.