Returning home for the first time since the opening week of the season, the Durant Lady Lions got back in the win column a week ago with a 9-4 victory over Shawnee.
Coach Jimmie Wyrick’s club didn’t have quite the same success in a 13-0 loss at league favorite Tahlequah on Thursday for this first loss of the district campaign.
The Lady Lions are slated to participate in the Duncan Tournament this weekend before returning home for nonleague action against Dickson and Antlers on Monday.
In the Shawnee triumph, Durant claimed a first inning lead when Anslee Morse singled and came around to score Emma Sherrer’s sacrifice fly.
That advantage stood tall until a pair of Shawnee tallies in the fifth, but the host Lady Lions answered right back in taking the lead for good as they erupted for seven runs.
Mia Ibarra, Morse and Kaitlen Rush strung together singles to get things started and Sherrer followed with a double to the centerfield wall. They kept the flurry going with a Korbyn Robinson RBI single and Ryan Uber double in front of a Lady Wolves error that plated the final run.
Shawnee responded with two tallies in the sixth but the Lady Lions got one back moments later as Ibarra singled and came around to score on a Rush single.
That proved to be enough run support from Sherrer in the pitching circle as she twirled a complete game threehitter, which included four runs allowed (one earned), five strikeouts and two walks.
Durant totaled 12 hits for one of its best offensive performances yet this season led Rush’s three hits. She drove in one and scored once.
Sherrer, Morse and Ibarra each posted two hits with Sherrer driving in three. Robinson, Uber and Kenzie Trotter all finished with one hit.
Things didn’t go as well in the Tahlequah defeat as Brynn Ritenour’s two-out single in the fifth inning broke up a no-hitter and provided the team’s only hit in the game.
