Lady Broncos finish 3rd – Loss to Cascade ends tourney run

The Lady Bronco softball team gave a solid performance all season long. But their success on the field ended Wednesday night in Eagleville, when Boyd Christian fell to Cascade 3-2 in eight innings in the loser?s bracket finals of the District 9-A tournament.

The Lady Broncos finished the season and tournament in third place and compiled a 15-9 record on the year.

Cassie Wanamaker matched her counterpart, Kelly Wilson, pitch-for-pitch, but in the end it was Wilson who helped herself at the plate and slapped in the winning RBI. Wanamaker worked eight innings, giving up six hits and two walks, while striking out nine. Wilson also worked a complete game allowing three hits, two walks and fanning five.

The game stayed scoreless until the top of the fifth, when the Lady Champions sent two runs to the plate. An error by the Lady Broncos and then a RBI double by Aimee Taylor set the stage for Wilson, who singled in Taylor to give Cascade a 2-0 lead.

The Lady Broncos evened things up in the bottom of the sixth on two hits and a throwing error on a pickoff attempt to tie the game at 2-2.

The game went to the eighth, and Cascade scored the go-ahead run, when Tiffany Gibbs drew a lead-off walk. The next batter hit into a fielder?s choice and then Wilson came to the plate and belted a double to score the game-winner.

The Lady Broncos had a chance to rally in the bottom of the inning, but their hopes were dashed as the Lady Champions came up with a game-ending double play.

The Lady Broncos earned their way into the matchup against Cascade by downing Community 3-2.

The Viqueens? Meaghan Therrien put Community on the board first with a leadoff home run, but Boyd tied the game in the bottom of the second at 1-1 only to see Community take a 2-1 lead in the sixth after two more hits.

In the bottom of the seventh Lyndsey King singled to lead things off for the Lady Broncos, and was followed by a sacrifice by Courtney Hard, moving King to second. Wanamaker doubled to right-center, scoring King to tie the game at 2-2. Leah Walker took the first pitch and singled to score Wanamaker for the game winning run.

The Lady Broncos worked their way to a third-place finish by downing Eagleville 6-1 and then falling to Cascade 6-0 on Monday night. Wanamaker struck out 13 against Eagleville and 11 batters against Cascade. Tosha Young collected three hits against Eagleville.