The Morris Lady Eagle fastpitch softball team opened district play last Thursday with a doubleheader battle with the Holdenville Lady Wolverines in Morris.
The Morris Lady Eagle fastpitch softball team opened district play last Thursday with a doubleheader battle with the Holdenville Lady Wolverines in Morris.
The Lady Eagles took the opening game of the twinbill by a 19-3 margin, then concluded the district sweep with a 10-2 victory in the nightcap.
The Morris diamond squad returned to action last weekend, competing in the Nowata Tournament.
See B1 for complete details of the Lady Eagles’ participation in Nowata.
In last Thursday’s district opener against Holdenville, the Lady Eagles opened the scoring with a run in the top of the first. The Morris squad tacked on three more in the second for a 4-0 advantage.
Holdenville plated its first run of the contest in the bottom of the second, then cut the Morris lead in half, 4-2, with a run in the home half of the third.
A pair of runs in the top of the fourth extended the Lady Eagles’ advantage to 6-2 after three and one-half innings.
The Morris diamond squad turned its 4-run lead into a double-digit margin after erupting for 13 runs in the top of the fifth.
Holdenville managed just one run in the last of the fifth to award the Morris Lady Eagles the 19-3 victory.
The Lady Eagle offense scattered 13 hits in the run-rule win, led by leadoff hitter Maddie Moore, who went 4 for 5 and was a home run shy of hitting for the cycle, recording a single, two doubles, and a triple, while driving in four. Moore also reached on a defensive miscue in the fifth.
The trio of Jessica Wilson (2 for 4, 2 singles, 2 RBIs), Briley Cagle (2 for 4, 2 singles, RBI), and Ashlyn Clevenger (2 for 3, single, double) also recorded multi-hit games last Thursday with two hits apiece.
The other three base hits for Morris in the opening contest came on singles by Brooklynn Thomas and Kaydence Ausbrooks and an RBI single by Camara Casey.
Other baserunners in last Thursday’s opening contest were Wilson (RBI walk, fielder’s choice), Thomas (RBI fielder’s choice, error), Ausbrooks (RBI fielder’s choice), Marti Yaerger (RBI walk, RBI fielder’s choice), Emma Duclos (walk, 2 errors), Firé Clark (walk), and Alli Guynes (walk, 2 errors). Dezmond Lewis drove in one of the 13 runs in the fifth with an RBI groundout.
In last Thursday’s second district battle, both teams tallied a run in their half of the first.
The score remained at 1-1 until the bottom of the third when the Lady Eagles plated three runs in the frame for a 4-1 advantage.
The Morris squad tacked on four runs in the last of the fourth to extend their lead to seven, 8-1, after four innings of action.
Holdenville made it an 8-2 contest with a run in the top of the fifth, while the Lady Eagles brought the game to a close on the run rule with a pair of runs in the home half of the inning.
The two Morris runs in the fifth came on back-to-back bases-loaded walks to Camara Casey and Marti Yaerger, giving the Morris squad the 10-2 decision.
The Lady Eagles finished with eight hits in the run-rule win, led by Maddie Moore, who went 3 for 4 with a pair of singles, triple, and 3 RBIs.
The other Morris base hits in the contest came on singles by Kaydence Ausbrooks and Firé Clark, RBI single by Jessica Wilson, double by Marti Yaerger, and 2-run double by Brooklynn Thomas.
Other baserunners against Holdenville were Yaerger (fielder’s choice, 2 walks, RBI), Thomas (walk), Ausbrooks (fielder’s choice), Clark (RBI walk), Dezmond Lewis (walk), Emma Duclos (RBI walk), Ashlyn Clevenger (walk), and Alli Guynes (error).
--- First Game Morris 19, Holdenville 3
Morris: 1 - 3 - 0 - 2 - 13 19 - 13 - 2 Holdenville:0-1-1-0-1 3-5-8 WP: Emma Duclos LP: Null HR: None --- Second Game Morris 10, Holdenville 2
Holdenville:1-0-0-0-1 2-4-2 Morris: 1-0-3-4-210-8-2 WP: Brooklynn Thomas LP: Dennie HR: None
