John Hardin hosted Elizabethtown on the softball diamond Monday afternoon, with the Panthers topping the Bulldogs in a 15- rout that lasted four innings.
“I’m just very pleased of our youngsters today,” Elizabethtown head coach James Schmidt mentioned. “We’re very youthful, incredibly inexperienced, and we haven’t been ready to exercise a lot.”
The E’town roster holds 12 gamers that are sophomores or young, with 7 of which in middle university.
The Panther youth confirmed up Monday, most notably with eighth grader Aislyn Burnett, who went 2-for-3 with two hits along with with two scores, and seventh grader Naveah Anderson, who scored four moments.
Schmidt was happy with the convert all around his team showed, specially right after coming off a 6-3 reduction to North Oldham (5-4) past 7 days.
“In our reduction to North Oldham on Saturday, we strike the ball proper at men and women, Schmidt said. “Today we received some great top quality at bats and received some excellent swings. I’m proud of them.”
Other notable E’town performances at the plate Monday provided junior Emil Schmidt with a .750 batting common, tallying a few hits and two RBIs, and senior Kylie McKinney, who batted 1.000 though bringing in 1 RBI.
McKinney, while displaying her prowess at the plate, also had a decent demonstrating on the bump as effectively.
“Kylie is tricky as nails. Now helps make two video games in row now where she’s been seriously good, and the defense was tough guiding her,” Schmidt reported. “We experienced one particular that I would choose that we did a minor bit much better job of, but that is element of it and it’s only March.”
E’town registered their first shutout of the year Monday, with McKinney heading for all 4 innings with eight K’s, supplying up just two hits.
McKinney finished the working day with credit history for the gain, putting her report at 3-2 on the year.
As for the Bulldogs, their offensive woes ongoing, with Monday getting the 2nd recreation straight where by they’ve been remaining scoreless.
They’ve presented up an ordinary of 13.8 runs for each match this year, with the optimum operate overall authorized coming in a 21-6 decline March 20 to Fairdale.
The Bulldogs registered just two hits Monday, with eighth grader Addie Ennis and freshman Hailey Wiley leading the way with a hit every.
Sophomore Lillian Wiley started off on the bump for John Hardin, throwing for all 4 innings though letting the Panthers to gather 12 hits with 11 acquired operates.
Hailey Wiley threw 96 pitches on 47 strikes with one particular K, along with credit rating for the reduction.
John Hardin (-6), presently on a six-recreation shedding streak, will have performed Thomas Nelson very last evening, and will host Atherton (3-3) at 5 p.m. these days.
Elizabethtown (3-2) will glimpse to make it two in a row when they come in opposition to Bethlehem (5-1) at 5:30 p.m. right now.