Houston County’s Rylee Lamb didn’t have an answer for Nicole Morales. Everybody else on the Northside squad, however? Hitless.
Lamb surrendered two hits in the Lady Bears’ 11-1 win in five innings. Both of them came to Morales, as did that lone RBI.
Houston County on the other hand, touched up two Lady Eagle pitchers, Makalie King and Kylie Ussery, for 13 hits.
Madi Campbell had three of those in four plate appearances. She also scored twice. Four Lady Bears also earned two RBIs each, Taylor Peebles (1-2), Kenly Sullivan (1-2 with a walk), Lamb (2-2) and Bobbi Poff (2-3).
Houston County opened up the scoring with three in the first. Northside cut it to 3-1 in the second, but the visitor began to pull away in the third. It scored five in that inning, one in the fourth and two in the fifth.
The win did stop a three-game slide for the Lady Bears. They improved to 8-5 while Northside fell to 6-8.
Two hits would have actually been a step up for Veterans. They lost 3-0 to Tattnall thanks to a one-hit performance by Kenna Epps. Anna Dumas had the hit, while Epps struck out two and walked three while going all seven innings.
Two Lady Warhawk pitchers, Madison Bussell and Jenna West, scattered six hits but that wasn’t enough to keep the Lady Trojans from scoring two in the second and one in the sixth.
Epps was also the power on offense, as she went 2-3 and drove in two.
Finally, Perry got a much-needed hit – actually a sacrifice fly – for a 5-4 win over Howard.
The two finished seven innings tied at 4. The visiting Lady Panthers scored two in the first. The Lady Huskies answered with one in the bottom half of the inning and then went out front with two in the fifth.
Perry went back out front with two in the sixth but Howard tied it in the bottom of the seventh.
Terra Odom then singled to start the eighth. Annie Chance’s grounder – she went 3-4 – got her to second where Lauren Heath’s single moved her over to third. Emma Pruitt then got her home with a fly ball to right. It was Pruitt’s second RBI of the day. (The other three went to Avery Williams, who was 2-4.)
Howard looked like it might answer with a lead-off single to start the bottom half, but two pop outs and a ground out clinched the win.
Ashley Gidney worked all eight innings for the win. She gave up nine hits – the Lady Panthers had seven in all – while striking out one.
The win evened up Perry’s Region 2-AAAA record at 2-2 – 6-8 overall – while Howard fell to 0-4, 5-11.
