2018 softball sophomores
Eight Rangers will wrap up their softball careers on Tuesday against Hinds.
10
Winner East Central ECCCSB 31-10, 18-9 MACJC
0
Northwest NWCCSB 19-18, 11-14 MACJC
Winner
East Central ECCCSB
31-10, 18-9 MACJC
10
Final
0
Northwest NWCCSB
19-18, 11-14 MACJC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
East Central ECCCSB 1 2 0 1 0 3 3 10 14 0
Northwest NWCCSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3

W: Kaitlyn Oswalt (15-7) L: Smith, Harley (10-12)

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Winner East Central ECCCSB 32-10, 19-9 MACJC
6
Northwest NWCCSB 19-19, 11-15 MACJC
Winner
East Central ECCCSB
32-10, 19-9 MACJC
10
Final
6
Northwest NWCCSB
19-19, 11-15 MACJC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
East Central ECCCSB 1 0 1 0 0 6 2 10 13 1
Northwest NWCCSB 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 6 10 2

W: Mackenzie Rousseau (15-3) L: Brownlee, Katie (7-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | by Kevin Maloney

East Central Spoils Sophomore Day with Sweep of Rangers

SENATOBIA – Tenth-ranked East Central pounded out a combined 27 hits and scored 20 runs on Saturday in a pair of 10-0 and 10-6 wins to spoil Sophomore Day for eight members of the Ranger softball program.

East Central improved to 32-10 overall and 19-9 in the MACJC, while Northwest fell to 19-19 and 11-15 to officially be eliminated from postseason contention.

Northwest will host Hinds on Tuesday, April 24 to close out the 2018 season.

Game 1 – East Central 10, Northwest 0

ECCC's Kaitlyn Oswalt tossed a complete-game, five-hit shutout and nine different Lady Warriors had at least one hit in a lopsided game one victory.

Madalyn McMahon put ECCC on the board in the first with an RBI-double and the visitors added two more to lead 3-0 after two.

The lead was just 4-0 after five until a three-run sixth and seventh broke the game wide open.

Northwest had its best scoring chance in the sixth after singles by Ally Judkins and Mary Thornburg, but back-to-back outs killed any sort of a rally.

ECCC out-hit Northwest 14-5 in the opener and the Rangers committed three errors.

Game 2 – East Central 10, Northwest 6

A five-run third inning helped Northwest lead 5-2 after five, but ECCC came storming back with eight runs over the final two frames to sweep the doubleheader.

Trailing 2-0 in the third, a one-out single from Judkins helped the Rangers spark a five-run rally. Harley Smith followed with a two-run single, Sarah Taylor added a two-run double and Sarah Johnson singled to short to make it 5-2 Northwest.

Katie Brownlee held the Lady Warriors off the scoreboard in the fourth and fifth before the wheels fell off in the sixth.

A leadoff hit-by-pitch, followed by back-to-back walks, loaded the bases for ECCC with nobody out. Kenyatta Moore then hit a bases-clearing triple to tie the game at 5-5 and the Lady Warriors added two more RBI-singles and double to turn a 5-2 deficit into a 8-5 lead.

With Northwest trailing 10-5 in the bottom of the seventh, a two-out bases-loaded walk to Taylor made it 10-6. Johnson followed with a rocket shot into right field that looked to be down for extra bases, but Alyssa Pendergrass made a great play to run it down to end the game.

Smith was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and Judkins and Alexis McShan added two hits in the loss.