Baker gave up just one hit in her 3+ innings of work, leaving the circle with her team up 7-1 and ready to focus on the Blazers on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Starfires scored half their runs in the top of the third inning and they did it the South Adams way, getting runners on and then driving opposing infields crazy. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Starfires were deadly with the bunt against Luers. (Photo by Kris Everett)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nA walk issued or a hit allowed to the No. 8 or No. 9 hitter in the Starfire lineup is practically a death sentence to a pitcher looking to keep the Stars off the board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Macy Pries and Shea Alberson both hit bunt singles and wreaked havoc for Luers, who made errors, throwing mistakes and passed balls to cough up six runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMacy Pries’s outstanding athletic career has been extended by three more days with another standout performance against Bishop Luers. (Photo by Kris Everett)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe biggest hit of the first SA rally was a two-run triple by Kenzie Neuenschwander. <\/p>\n\n\n\nKenzie Neuenschwander smiles after reaching third base on a triple with head coach Jessie O’Dell. (Photo by Kris Everett)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nLuers got their only run of the game after Baker hit a batter and walked the next, giving MJ Brell an RBI opportunity. They did not score the rest of the contest. <\/p>\n\n\n\nShelby Weigel slides into second ahead of the tag Saturday for South Adams. (Photo by Kris Everett)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSouth Adams came back up in the fourth and laid down three more bunts, loading the bases for Sofia Schwartz, who knocked in a run with a sacrifice fly. <\/p>\n\n\n\nGracy Bixler relieved Baker in the fourth and quickly got two outs, then Luers committed another error to put two runners on for Pries. <\/p>\n\n\n\nGracy Bixler got five outs and allowed just one hit in relief of Addie Baker Saturday. (Photo by Kris Everett)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Stars’ leadoff hitter doubled to center to score two and two batters later Bekah Patterson got the sectional trophy out of the packing peanuts with a home run to center field to put South Adams up 12-1. <\/p>\n\n\n\nBekah Patterson is met by her teammates at home plate after homering <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBixler got the final out of a thrilling sectional with a strikeout and the Starfires celebrated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pries was a perfect 3 for 3 with a walk and three runs scored. Neuenschwander and Shea Alberson each had two hits. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMacy Pries slides head-first into third base Saturday against Bishop Luers. (Photo by Kris Everett)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSouth Adams will play Eastside Tuesday at 6 p.m. in a game set to be broadcast live on WZBD, 92.7 FM. <\/p>\n\n\n\nListen to the Starfires Tuesday on WZBD.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survive and advance. Five days ago, the South Adams Starfires were one base hit away from an early<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,40,28,26],"class_list":["post-16754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-softball","tag-southadams","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/847A9710-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C857&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}