Class 3A top-ranked Caddo held off a pair of challenges from Bryan County opponents in totally different fashion in slow pitch softball action last week.
The Lady Bruins cruised past Rock Creek, 12-1, but got all they wanted and more in a 19-18 marathon victory against Calera.
In the Rock Creek decision, Caddo wasted no time in bolting to a five-run first inning fueled by a Brylee Daniel three-run homer. Maddie Williams got one of the runs back with a solo blast in the bottom of the first but that proved to be all the offensive production for the Lady Mustangs.
The score remained 5-1 until the fifth stanza when Caddo strung together six hits on the way to seven runs that helped end things early. Kayden Cowan and Presley Beck each doubled to score runs while Daniel smacked another two-run roundtripper.
No lead was safe to say the least in the high-scoring Calera shootout with the Lady Bulldogs notching a 23-21 edge in hits but 10 errors defensively proved costly.
The final at bat proved to be decisive as Caddo came from behind in scoring twice in the bottom of the final stanza.
Cowan began the uprising with a single and Beck was intentionally walked with one out. Daniel drilled a runscoring hit that knotted the score and Hughes pushed the winning tally across with a sacrifice fly.
Beck blasted two homers and drove in four but it was Malone’s four-hit and four RBI effort that added the major spark. Hughes tallied three hits while Cowan, Daniel, Vaughn, Busby and Taylor each contributed two hits.
Calera’s monster offensive showing was keyed by Beller, who had four hits that included a home run and drove in two. Maytubby also homered and notched three hits with four RBI while Owens and Teafatiller also contributed three hits. Two of Owens’ hits went for a double and triple.
Allmon, Niblett and Palmer had multiple hits as well.
Silo Softball
The third-ranked Lady Rebels made a clean sweep through the prestigious Stonewall Beast of the East Tournament last weekend.
In total they posted five tournament victories, all of which saw Silo push across at least eight runs. They blitzed Byng (8-0) in the semifinals and Tecumseh (8-5) in the winner’s bracket final before dumping the Lady Savages emphatically in a 10-1 verdict for the championship game.
Paetyn Garrett posted three hits and the Lady Rebels only yielded four hits to the Lady Pirates in the runaway triumph. Connie Tubby, Kostina Tubby and Dylan Paddock each added two hits apiece.
Silo scored three times in the bottom of the final inning to break a 5-5 deadlock. Neely House smashed a tworun homer for the lead and Maddie Sander pitched in an RBI single.
There were plenty of offensive fireworks in the title tilt as Connie and Kostina Tubby as well as Paetyn Garrett all went deep with Neely House smacking two homers.
The Lady Rebels scored at least two runs in every inning to steadily pull away from the second-ranked team in Class 5A.
Sander and Connie Tubby had three hits apiece while House and Jayci Webb tallied two hits each.
