Softball Splits Doubleheader with Leslie

The Stockbridge softball team came away with a doubleheader split with arch-rival Leslie Monday beating the Blackhawks 3-2 in the opener and falling 12-0 in the second.

The opener was a pitchers dual between the Panther Bailey Bartrum and the Blackhawks Ada Bradford.

Bartrum struck out 17 in the game and allowed just four hits, while Bradford allowed four hits and struck out nine as both shut down the opponents offense’s.

The Panthers took the lead in the second when Joslynn Caskey ripped a shot off the knee of the Leslie third baseman for a single with one out. Gracie Burg game in as a courtesy runner and stole second base.  Burg then tried to steal third and the throw went into left field allowing her to score at home for a 1-0 lead.

Leslie tied it up in the third with a two-out triple scored a run after a Panther error put a runner on base.

The Blackhawks took a 2-1 lead in the top of the 6th on a bloop single to right that scored a run with two outs.

Ashley Grumelot opened the bottom of the sixth by reaching first on a passed ball on a third strike to give the Panthers life.

Arin Szumlinski then ripped a shot that got by a diving Blackhawk centerfield for an inside-the-park two-run home to give the Panthers a 3-2 lead, but the excitement wasn’t over.

With one out in the seventh Leslie had a runner reach on a passed ball on a third strike. With two outs Leslie got a base hit to center, and the Blackhawks sent the runner home to try to score, McKenzie Noble fired the ball home to Caskey who fired to third as the runner tried to get back to the base and Makayla Surline put the tag on her to end the game.

Alexis Hightower and Hannah Lockhart had the two other hits for the Panthers in the game.

The second game was all Leslie as the Blackhawks scored two in the first and would put the game away with five runs in the fourth and three in the fifth.

Szumlinski, Hightower, Lockhart, Caskey, and Surline had hits for the Panthers. Bartrum took the loss striking out four.

 

 

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