Lady Pioneers blank White County
With the temperatures dipping down in to the upper 30’s this week, the Lady Pioneer softball team has tried to keep their bats hot. But a 11-2 loss on Tuesday to Oakland made things even colder.
Wednesday, Warren County got back on the winning track despite the cold weather with a 2-0 win at home over White County.
” Tuesday we had a complete break down on defense,” said coach David Upton. “We made too many mistakes against Oakland and it cost us a district win.
“(Wednesday night) the girls continued to hit the ball, and we kept our errors under control. I believe in this team, but it’s up to the girls to start believing in themselves. They’re hitting the ball well, we just have to focus on defense.”
In the top of the first White County’s lead-off batter singled to left-center, but Warren County’s defense came up with the next three outs to end the inning. Warren County had a chance to score in the bottom of the inning when Alex Mullican and MaCall Cooper drew walks but the runners were left stranded.
White County went down in order in the second and in the third. The Lady Pioneers stranded another runner in the bottom of the third when Cooper doubled with two outs and the next batter flied to right to end the inning.
Warren County put its first run on the board in the bottom of the fourth. Shellie Hayes and Penny Wanamaker connected on back to back singles and with one out Candace Stubblefield drew a walk to load the bases. Erica Warren helped her cause with a sacrifice to score Hayes to give the Lady Pioneers a 1-0 lead.
White County picked up a hit in the top of the fifth but that was all the Lady Warriors could manage. Warren County picked up its second run of the game in the bottom of the inning when Cooper singled, Cassie McGinness doubled and Hayes hit in to a fielder’s choice to score Cooper.
White County led things off with a hit in the top of the sixth and moved the runner to third with two outs. But the Lady Pioneers picked up the ground ball to short for the third out of the inning.
Stubblefield singled with one out in the bottom of the inning as she was left stranded.
White County singled to open the top of the seventh but Warren County’s defense shut down the next three batters for the win.
The Lady Pioneers picked up five hits and left eight runners on base. Warren gave up five hits, no walks and four strike outs on the day. Warren County is now 2-6 on the year and are scheduled to play at home against Franklin County on Thursday and Sequatchie County on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and Tullahoma on Saturday with the junior varsity at 5 and the varsity at 7 p.m.