Cold day, hot bats-WCMS slams Franklin South
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The Lady Pioneers sent 13 batters to the plate in the opening inning of their game at Sam Martin Field, plating nine runs on the way to a 14-5 blowout against Franklin County South, improving to 4-1 on the season.
Gabi Keith pitched her team to the victory, and worked a quick first inning forcing a grounder to first, a pop-up to the shortstop and collecting the first of her four strikeouts on the day.
WCMS then started a long hit parade, with Monica Lane and Lindsey Rowland singling to start the bottom of the first and coming home on a hit to left from Lauren Wilkinson. Morgan Frye reached on an error, Taylor Grissom walked to load the bases and Sarah Jacobs grounded out to plate her team’s third run.
Frye came home when designated hitter Ali Young hit a grounder to short, and Chelsea Cope’s long fly to left was dropped, allowing Grissom to score. Lauren Crothers followed with a single, and Lane then got her second hit of the inning, driving home Cope. Rowland followed with a triple to right, bringing in Crothers and Lane, and Wilkinson singled home Rowland, putting the home team on top 9-0.
Grissom started the second with a double, later scoring on Young’s grounder to third, but the shutout wouldn’t stay intact for long, as Franklin South plated a run in the top of the third on an RBI triple from Megan Moore.
WCMS answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning, as Frye doubled home Lane and Wilkinson with two outs.
The Lady Trojans put up two more in the top of the fourth, but the Lady Pioneers ‘ who had substituted at nearly every position by that point ‘ countered those runs as well, with Young driving home Blair Fisher, who had singled, and later scoring herself on a ground ball from Samantha Weeter.
South added two final runs in the fifth, when Lauren Curtis hit a fly ball to left which was lost in the sun by Warren County’s fielder, but it was too little and too late as the Lady Pioneers collected the nine-run victory.
‘ Last Thursday, the Lady Pioneers suffered their first loss of the season, as they were edged on the road at Shelbyville, 1-0. Young pitched a complete game, allowing just one hit which resulted in the winning run.
Grissom, Cope and Rowland had hits for the Lady Pioneers in the losing effort.