In a showdown of Class 4A Top 10 foes, defending state champ Silo flexed its muscle last week with a 15-7 win over ninth-ranked Calera.
Each team is slated to host district tournaments next week Wynnewood and Atoka visiting Silo and Heavener and Wilburton at Calera.
Calera grabbed an early 2-0 lead in the Bryan County shootout, plating a pair of first inning runs as Taibree Melton singled and Taylynn Conder doubled in front of Auhnesty Maytubby’s two-run single.
Silo answered immediately with five tallies to go in front for good. Neely House and Kostina Tubby sandwiched singles around a walk before Bree Ginn delivered a grand slam over the centerfield wall. Jayci Webb followed with a single and rode all the way around on Dylan Paddock’s triple.
Kostina Tubby scored sister Connie with an RBI hit to key a two-run second that made it a 7-2 advantage. Calera responded with three runs in the third when Taryn Niblett and Melton doubled in front of a Conder homer and then tacked on another in the fourth on Rilyn Teafatiller’s RBI double.
Seeing their lead narrowed to 7-6, the Lady Rebels put their foot on the throttle when House drilled a two-run home run and Paetyn Garrett and Kostina Tubby added singles in the bottom of the stanza.
A Tori Allmon run-scoring hit in the fifth proved to be Calera’s final tally of the game before a five-run Silo eruption in its half of the inning ended things on the run rule.
Maddix Sander ignited the flurry with a leadoff double and Kamrey Hendricks followed with a single. House kept it alive with a two-out single, Garrett doubled, and Kostina Tubby then ended it with a tworun blast over the centerfield wall.
Silo racked up 17 hits led by four from Kostina Tubby and three by House. Garrett and Webb chipped in two hits apiece with one each from Connie Tubby, Ginn, Paddock, Sander, Hendricks and Trinity Ford.
Melton and Conder paced the Calera 10-hit charge with two each. Maytubby, Allmon, Kaira Beller, Makenna Owens, Teafatiller and Niblett all tallied one.
Silo, ranked third in 4A, followed up the victory with a 3-1 showing at the power-packed Roff Invitational while averaging more than 13 runs per outing. Calera finished the week with a 3-3 record in the rugged Kiowa Invitational with its only losses coming to Class B topranked Caney as well as 4A number one Dale (twice).
