Varsity loses two; JV split vs. Panthers
From our weekly issue dated April 1, 2009
The Illinois Valley varsity girls softball team lost both games of the double-header vs. the McKinleyville Panthers in McKinleyville on Saturday, March 28.
In the first game the Lady Cougars began with three consecutive hits by Tammy Huntamer, Cindy Moore and Morgan Brown to score Humtamer. But the Panther hurler struck out the side, to end the top half of the first inning. The Cougars gave up 1 run in the first and the score was 1-1 after the second inning.
However, the third inning spelled disaster for the Cougs as the opposing cats pushed 10 runs across the plate to take an 11-1 lead. The I.V. bats disappeared the rest of the game. The Panthers then scored six more times to end the game with the 10-run rule, 17-1. Brittanie Brummett pitched well, but the Cougar defense committed several errors behind her. Huntamer, Moore and Brown all went 1-3, and all three had one stolen base. Brummett (0-2) took the loss.
In the second game the Lady Cougars (0-3) started great and scored 1 run in the first, when Huntamer hit safely. She then moved over on a fielder’s choice by Moore and scored on Brown’s base hit. Brown walked, stole second and scored on Brummitt’s fielder’s choice to score a run in the third to take a 2-1 lead after three innings of play. In the top of the fourth, the Panthers scored seven times and three more in the fifth to make the score 11-2.
The Lady Cougar bats vanished again, but the game went the distance, which was an improvement from the first game. Huntamer was 2-4; Lucy Bell went 1-2; Brummitt was 1-3 with an RBI.
Bell was the defensive standout with two great catches in left field. However, the play of the game came when Bell went flat out and dove for the ball, coming up with a circus catch to end the fifth and get the Cougars out of trouble.
The Cougar JV players really showed that they are a team and played extremely well in both games of their double-header. The first contest ended 21-17 with Moore going 1-4 and Music Glenn, Taylor Deguillio, Chiara Usher, Brittney Trahan all having RBIs. Trahan (0-2) took the loss.
I.V.’s JV (1-3) won the second game 10-7, which was the first win of the Cougar softball program in more than two years. The story of the game was Bell’s outstanding pitching, with her striking out four Panthers, taking it for the team twice by being hit with the pitch, and having two RBIs. Usher had 3 RBIs, Glenn two, and Deguillio and Katie Becker each had one. Bell (1-0) garnered the victory.
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