Sallie Rose Carver
Brian Lentz / nwccrangers.com
Sallie Rose Carver was 3-for-6 with a pair of doubles on the day.
2
Northwest NWCCSB 2-5
7
Winner Wabash Valley WVCSB 4-1
Northwest NWCCSB
2-5
2
Final
7
Wabash Valley WVCSB
4-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Northwest NWCCSB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 2
Wabash Valley WVCSB 0 1 1 2 3 0 X 7 11 1

W: Hannah Shirley (0-0) L: Smith, Harley (0-3)

2
Northwest NWCCSB 2-6
4
Winner Mineral Area College MACSB 2-3
Northwest NWCCSB
2-6
2
Final
4
Mineral Area College MACSB
2-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Northwest NWCCSB 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 2
Mineral Area College MACSB 0 0 0 0 3 1 X 4 10 1

W: India Price (0-0) L: Luke, Tori (1-2)

Game Recap: Softball | | by Kevin Maloney

Softball Closes Out Northeast TigerFest

BOONEVILLE – Northwest wrapped up a four-game stretch at the annual Northeast TigerFest on Saturday at Booneville City Park, dropping a pair of games to Wabash Valley, 7-2, and Mineral Area College, 4-2. 

Northwest finished 1-3 at the tournament and moved to 2-6 on the season.

Against WVC, Northwest led 2-0 after the first inning but allowed seven unanswered runs in the loss.

Ally Judkins' one out single, followed by Sallie Rose Carver's double put runners at second and third for Tori Luke who singled through the left side to score both for a 2-0 Ranger lead after one.

Wabash cut the lead in half in the second, using Jade Montgomery's triple and scoring her a batter later on Mallory Rutz's RBI-single. They would knot the game at 2-2 in the third on Natalie David's two-out double. 

Another two out hit gave Wabash its first lead in the fourth. After a fly out, Rutz single and strikeout, Steffi Farkas hit a two-run homer to left to extend the lead to 4-2.

WVC added three more in the fifth to put the game out of reach, using three singles in the frame and one Ranger error.

Hannah Shirley scattered two runs off six hits in a complete-game win. Harley Smith (0-3) lasted 4.2 innings, allowing five earned runs off 11 hits while striking out four. Leeah Henson tossed 1.1 innings of shutout ball.

The top of the Ranger lineup was 6-for-11, with Rose and Carver finishing with two hits apiece. WVC had 11 hits, paced by a 3-for-3 outing by Rutz.

Northwest carried a 1-0 lead into the fifth against Mineral Area before a three-run fifth doomed the Rangers in a 4-2 loss.

Allison Williams singled, was sacrificed to second and advanced to third and scored off a throwing error to make it 1-0 Rangers after two.

Luke had a shutout going through four and allowed just three hits before the Lady Cards found their offense in the fifth.

After allowing a leadoff single, Luke retired the next two batters but then ran into trouble. Three straight singles plated three MAC runs and Northwest trailed 3-1 after five.

The Rangers got one back in the sixth, using a two-out RBI fielder's choice from Luke, but MAC answered right back with Karlie Missey's RBI-single in the bottom half to make the final 4-2.

Northwest was out-hit 10-4 in the loss, with Anna Jones, the No. 9 hitter going 3-for-3.

Luke fell to 1-2 in the circle, scattering three earned runs off 10 hits with five strikeouts. India Price went the distance for MAC.

Northwest will host Blue Mountain JV on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 1 p.m. for its home-opener.