County Schools Battle on the Mound

Paulding’s Grace Tuttle pounds the ball out of the field, and after running the bases she is welcomed by her teammates. More pictures at westbendnews.net

May began with some stiff county competition in the realm of high school varsity softball action. On Tuesday, May 1st, the Lady Panthers played host to the Wayne Trace Lady Raiders. Game play started off slow, no runs occurred till the bottom of the 3rd inning by the home team. Paulding owned their field claiming more runs in each of the remaining innings. The Lady Raiders attempted to rally in the last inning, but only managed to get 1 run. Final score: Paulding 6, Wayne Trace 1

Score by Innings:

Wayne Trace – 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 =1; 8R, 3H

Paulding – 0 0 1 2 2 1 x =6; 10R, 0H

Hitting:

Wayne Trace – Dyson (4AB), Moore (3AB, 2H), Parrish (2AB, 1H), Wenzlick (1AB), B. Sinn (3AB, 2H), Fast (3AB, 1R, 1H), Crosby (2AB), Brigner (1AB), Gerber (3AB, 1H), Egnor (2AB), C. Sinn (1AB), Eklunel (3AB, 1H, 1BI)

Paulding – Jalynn Parrett (3AB, 1BI), Asia Arellano (4AB, 1R, 3H), Haylee Dominique (4AB, 2H), Audrey Manz (3AB, 1H, 1BI), Megan Tope (3AB), Gabbie Stallbaum (3AB, 1BI), Jen Stahl (2AB), Ashlynn Rice (2AB, 1R, 1H), Grace Tuttle (3AB, 2R, 3H, 2BI), *Mallory Taylor (1R), *Kaela Lucas (1R)

LOB – Wayne Trace 6, Paulding 6; ERR – Parrish, Moore (2); 2B – Moore, Asia Arellano;

HR – Grace Tuttle; SACB – Jalynn Parrett, Ashlynn Rice; SB – Grace Tuttle, Audrey Manz, Kaela Lucas

Pitching:

Wayne Trace – Crosby (L) 5.00IP, 9H, 6R, 4ER, 1BB, 1HR; Brigner, 1.00IP, 1H

Paulding – Haylee Dominique (W) 7.00IP, 8H, 1R, 1ER, 3SO

PB – Gerber, Jen Stahl; SO – Crosby, Wenzlick, Parrish; BB – Jen Stahl