The Morris Lady Eagle varsity fastpitch softball team closed out district play earlier this week with back-toback losses.
The Morris Lady Eagle varsity fastpitch softball team closed out district play earlier this week with back-toback losses.
The Lady Eagles finish 5-7 in district play and are fifth overall in the 3A-7 standings, which means a road trip in the postseason next Thursday and Friday.
The first district loss this week came Monday against the Lincoln Christian Lady Bulldogs in Tulsa by a 4-1 margin. The Morris squad then closed out its district schedule on Tuesday with a 6-2 home loss to the Sperry Lady Pirates.
The next scheduled action for the Lady Eagles is Monday at Preston and a county showdown with the Preston Lady Pirates.
In Monday’s district battle at Lincoln Christian, the host Lady Bulldogs broke a scoreless tie with a run in the bottom of the third. Lincoln Christian added a run in the last of the fifth and two more in the bottom of the sixth for a 4-0 advantage.
The Lady Eagles broke up the shutout with a run in the top of the seventh. The Morris ladies were only able to produce the lone run in their final at-bat of regulation to suffer the 4-1 defeat.
The Lady Eagles finished with eight hits in the contest, led by Fire Clark (3 for 4, 2 singles, double) and Kaydence Ausbrooks (3 for 4, 3 singles) with three hits each.
The other two Morris base hits against Lincoln Christian came on singles by Alli Guynes and Kailyn Fixico.
Other Lady Eagle baserunners on Monday were Guynes (2 fielder’s choices), Emma Duclos (error), and Baylee Qualls (walk).
Duclos was saddled with the pitching loss for Morris against Lincoln Christian, allowing four runs on five hits with three walks and two hit batters in six innings of work.
In Tuesday’s district finale against Sperry, the visitors opened the scoring with three runs in the top of the second, then aded a run in their half of the fifth for a 4-0 advantage.
The Lady Eagles tallied their two runs of the contest in the bottom of the sixth to cut the deficit in half, 4-2, after six innings of action.
Sperry tacked on two insurance runs in the top of the seventh, while the Morris offense was unable to produce any runs in its final at-bat of regulation to suffer the 6-2 setback.
Emma Duclos absorbed the pitching loss for Morris on Tuesday, giving up six runs on eight hits, striking out two, walking five, and hitting a batter in seven innings of work.
The Lady Eagles were limited to just four base hits in the 4-run loss. The four Morris hits against Sperry came on singles by Briley Cagle, Fire Clark, and Kailyn Fixico and an RBI single by Camara Casey.
Other Morris baserunners in the district finale were Clark (walk), Casey (fielder’s choice), Duclos (walk), Kaydence Ausbrooks (fielder’s choice), and Dezmond Lewis (hit by pitch) --- Monday, September 11
Lincoln Christian 4, Morris 1 Morris: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1 1-8-3 LincolnChr:0-0-1-0-1-2-x 4-5-1 WP: Unknown LP: Emma Duclos HR: None --- Tuesday, September 12 Sperry 6, Morris 2
Sperry:0-3-0-0-1-0-2 6-8-0 Morris:0-0-0-0-0-2-0 2-4-1 WP: Unknown LP: Emma Duclos HR: Sperry: No. 18
