Durant posted a pair of shutout wins over Booker T. Washington but saw its softball season come to an end to host Pryor last week in the Class 5A regional tournament.
The Lady Lions closed the campaign with a 12-27 record against a brutally tough schedule most of the way.
Coach Jimmie Wyrick’s squad blanked the Lady Hornets 7-0 and 12-0 coupled amidst the 11-1 and 16-1 defeats at the hands of the powerful Lady Tigers.
In the opener against Booker T. Washington, sophomore Emma Sherrer dazzled in the pitching circle as she went all seven innings while allowing just two hits with nine strikeouts.
Durant made the most of just five hits in the game as they also overcame five errors. The Lady Lions notched a single run in the third frame with two runs coming in each of the final three stanzas.
Kenzee Petty tallied a pair of hits, including a double, while Kaitlen Rush added a double as well. Anslee Morse and Sherrer chipped one single each.
The Lady Lions followed with the initial setback to Pryor as the team’s only run to dent the scoreboard came around in the sixth inning when Sherrer plated one on a sacrifice fly to leftfield. Mia Ibarra and Morse contributed a single apiece.
Durant staved off elimination in the Booker T. Washington rematch as Sherrer toed the pitching rubber and fired all six innings, yielding only one hit and striking out two.
They racked up a whopping 14 hits in the contest, spurred by a season-high three hits from Petty. Rush, Ryan Uber, Kenzie Trotter and Ibarra all had two hits in the game with one each by Sherrer, Korbyn Robinson and Brynn Ritenour.
The finale was a microcosm of the entire fall season as Durant managed only one run and six total hits while yielding seven unearned runs as the result of five errors.
Pryor rolled to four runs in the second frame, two in the third, eight in the fourth and two in the fifth before the Lady Lions finally got on the scoreboard.
Ritenour led off the final stanza with a single and advanced to third on a Morse double. Uber plated the run with a two-out single with Morse thrown out at the plate to end the game.
Morse tallied a pair of hits with one each from Rush, Uber, Ritenour and Ibarra.
