Beau Simmons

DURANT — The recipe for a run-rule: Outhit your opponent 18 to 2, and make sure your opponent has six errors for every one of yours. Whip for 90 minutes.

The Lone Grove Lady Longhorns, Class 4A’s No. 1 team, handed the Lady Lions an 11-0 loss after five innings Tuesday.

The Lady Lions fell to 20-14, and are still stalled on 399 wins in the history of the program.

That mark won’t be easy to gain inside the week. Durant hosts Top-5 McAlester, 5 p.m., Friday. Saturday, the Lady Lions will be back on the road at the Ardmore Festival.

On Monday, the Lady Lions trailed by three runs through the third, before Kaly May Hunter led off with the first three Lone Grove home runs to leave the park in the game.

Nicole Watkins started for Durant, giving up one earned run after seven hits, with not walks and a strikeout in three innings of work. Ashley Rutherford had the mop-up role, working the last two innings, giving up eight runs on 11 hits.

The Longhorns didn’t need the help, but Durant squeezed six errors into five innings.

Tiara Marks recorded the win for Lone Grove. She scattered two hits, hit one batter and fanned five.

Alyssa Ferguson was the marshal the Longhorn longball parade. She blasted two over the left field wall, finishing with a total of five RBIs and three runs scored. Ferguson had an RBI-double in the third inning, and a two-run home run in each of her last two plate appearances in the fourth and fifth.

Watkins gave Durant its first base runner, reaching on a two-out error in the bottom of the first. Courtesy runner Rutherford was thrown out attempting to steal second base, and the Lady Lions never got a runner beyond second base the rest of the contest.

Kaija Morris led off the bottom of the second with an infield single, and was sacrificed to second by Kaylie Baxter. Two strikeouts ended the inning. Ashlyn Davenport singled to lead off the third, but was replaced Destiny Renegar on a one-out fielder’s choice.

Renegar managed to steal second before the threat ended with a ground out. Kaylie Baxter was hit by a pitch with two outs in the fourth inning, providing the only other base runner of the game for Durant.

Outside of Ferguson’s career day at the plate, Lone Grove had four players with multiple hits. Madison McMurtrey and Hunter were each 2-for-3, while Abby Barton and Tori Deck were each 2-for-4.