Vs. River View (4/15 – 4/14)
Dresden’s Kenny Wolford park hosted the Lady Black Bears in their second game of two days this time with Ashlyn Davis on the mound and she was ready to show her game opening the top of the 1st striking out two and throwing the third batter into a ground out to allow the Scottie batters to step up. Alivia Reffitt hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 1st inning, driving home Murphy and taking a 2 – 0 lead right out of the gate. In the bottom of the 2nd inning, the Lady Dawgs were back at it, this time with Murphy hitting a grand slam, scoring Bell, Katelyn Paxson, and Lauren Leas to blast their lead to 6 – 0. Peterson doubled to allow Mathews to score, and she scored on the next at-bat when Holdsworth hit a single to right field. Holdsworth scored off of an error to wrap up the inning, but not before the Lady Dawgs took a 9 – 0 lead. A double from Bell and a series of errors and singles drove the Tri-Valley score up to 15 – 2 by the end of the 3rd inning. After a triple strikeout in the top of the 4th inning, the Scotties wrapped up their scoring in the bottom of the 4th inning by throwing another five runs onto the total. McPeak tried to strike up a rally for River View in the top of the 5th inning with a single that scored two RBIs, but that was where Tri-Valley shut it down to take the 20 – 4 victory.
The Lady Dawgs traveled to River View High School on Monday to play the Lady Black Bears. The Scotties were quick to take control of the game when Alivia Reffitt sacrificed to the pitcher to advance Gerren Mathews to home base for a 1 – 0 lead. After two strikeouts and a ground out, Tri-Valley was back to batting. Delaney Bell created a repeat of the 1st inning by sacrificing to bring home Larsyn Holdsworth for a 2 – 0 lead. In the top of the 3rd inning, Cydnee Wolford scored on a wild pitch, followed by Joelle Moreland scoring on a sacrifice by Holdsworth. Ashlyn Davis singled to first base on her at bat, scoring Ally Peterson and bringing the Scottie score total to 5 – 0. Paiton Murphy struck out all three batters in the bottom of the 3rd. Moreland scored on an error in the top of the 5th, TV 6 – RV 0. After another scoreless bottom of the inning served up by Murphy, the Scotties opened the top of the 6th with a double from Delaney Bell that scored Davis. Murphy grounded out to second base, allowing Bell to run home, setting the Lady Dawgs up 8 – 0. Moreland was able to score in the top of the 7th off of a ground out by Davis. Followed by an RBI from Mathews, whose single to left field brought home Felicity Grable to cap the Scotties’ score at 10. Murphy perfectly wrapped up the inning, completing a shutout against the Lady Black Bears, and she was credited with the 10 – 0 win.
Over the weekend, the Scotties dropped a close 3 – 4 game against Bloom Carroll after a huge shut-out win against Big Walnut, finishing with a score of 8 – 0. Tri-Valley also took a pair of wins over Philo Monday (14 – 4) and Tuesday (9 – 6).
