There were a lot of storylines in Thursday’s 10-0 win Thursday night at home.
Addie Baker was one out away from a potential no-hitter.
Avery Brown hit a walk-off, and it was a triple, to boot!
The South Adams Starfires continued their winning streak, with the only loss still coming in a rain-shortened game against Bellmont that the team would love to have back.
Regardless of which storyline matters the most to you, one thing is for certain: These Starfires are contenders.
Just as they had done the night before, South Adams played just 4.5 innings, but it was jam-packed with action.
Brown and Macy Pries both finished with two hits, while most of the rest of the team got just two at bats due to the five walks and two hit batsmen by Southern Wells pitching.
Coach Jessie O’Dell didn’t call the game like his team was going to win by the run rule, asking Macy Pries to bunt for a hit to leadoff the bottom of the first. He then asked her to steal, forcing a bad throw that put the senior spark plug on third with one out. Bekah Patterson drove her in with a sacrifice fly to center.
In the second inning, the Stars scored two runs without picking up a hit in a frame where it seemed like the bases were loaded for 15 minutes. Both runs came after the Starfires had made the first two outs at home plate and both came without the ball in play as Reagan Beitler and Avery Brown scored while Shea Alberson was standing at the plate.
When the Stars were in the field, it was all Baker, racking up 1-2-3 innings and allowing just one hit in the fifth. She struck out 11 of the 20 batters she faced.
The Stars continued to take the walks given to them by SW pitching and again loaded the bases in the third, where they were eventually unclogged by a two-run homer by Kenzie Neuenschwander to left, her fourth of the season.
Macy Pries singled in another run and later scored on a delayed double steal to give the Stars a 9-0 lead after just three innings.
Southern Wells mounted their best attack in the top of the fifth, loading the bases on a single to left by Collena Reeves. The seeing-eye hit was just out of the reach of the diving third baseman and shortstop and was the only hit allowed by Baker on the night, as she got Kaylea Coffel to ground out one pitch later to Tessa Bernard.
Needing just one run to end the contest on the run rule, Beitler doubled to center and came home to score on Brown’s triple down the right field line into the corner.
The Starfires will play in Fort Recovery Friday before staging a doubleheader against Manchester in the first game of the Garrett Invitational Saturday morning.
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