WOODWARD — Like a pair of heavyweight fighters, the softball teams from Madrid and Woodward-Granger engaged in a donnybrook Tuesday, with a total of 24 runs scoring on 27 combined hits.
Madrid landed the last blows by scoring three times in the top of the sixth, but a seven-run pummeling from W-G in the bottom of the fifth was too much to overcome, with host Hawks hanging on for a 13-11 win a WCAC “pier sixer.”
The Tigers scored twice in the first, but three-run frames in the first and third pushed the Hawks into a 6-2 lead. Madrid seized an 8-6 advantage with a combination single run in the fourth and a five-run chin shot in the fifth.
W-G got off the carpet to plant a seven-run frame in the fifth on the guests, who responded with three scores in the sixth but could not add at least two more in the seventh to continue the contest.
Riley Jamison survived a 15-hit onslaught in which five of the 11 Tigers runs were unearned. She issued two walks and struck out eight.
The Hawk lineup was littered with hits, runs and RBIs.
Bree Lesch was 3-for-4 with two runs, a stolen base and a RBI while Maggi Mallon added a RBI-double. Jamison, Kaycee Major and Kayley Dresback were all 2-for-3 at the dish, wtih Major driving in two runs and joining Dresback in scoring twice.
Katelyn Bandstra had a hit, three RBIs and scored one, with Alexis Bixler adding a base hit. Courtesy runners Ava Peterson and Natalie Weaver each scored twice, with Alissa Smeltzer and Kendra Husmann each touching the plate once.
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Saturday’s Games
at Centerville
W-G 7, WAYNE 3 (6)
W-G 4, SEYMOUR 2
CENTERVILLE 10, W-G 0 (5)
CENTERVILLE — W-G spent Saturday at the Centerville Tournament, where the Hawks tallied a 2-1 mark. W-G opened with a 7-3 win over Wayne in six innings before stopping Seymour, 4-2. They fell to the host Redettes, 10-0, in five frames in their final game.
Jamison won the first game, allowing three Wayne runs (two earned) on six hits and three walks while striking out six.
She aided her own cause with a 3-for-4, two-RBI effort at the plate. Mallon, Lesch, Major, Dresback and Miranda Aunspach had two hits apiece, with Bandstra adding a base hit. All 14 W-G hits in the game were singles.
Major had two RBIs and Bandstra and Mallon one each, with Lesch and Aunspach scoring twice while Dresback, Bandstra and Peterson also scored.
Jamison limited the Warriors to only two hits in the game two victory. She struck out four and walked none while both Seymour runs were unearned.
Lesch had three singles, Dresback two singles and a double and Smeltzer a single and a double with three RBIs. Bixler had two hits and Bandstra one.
The Redettes pounded out 18 hits in scoring 10 runs in five innings off a pair of Hawk eighth-graders, who earned valuable experience in the contest. The hosts had eight doubles and one triple in the win.
Centerville pitcher Alyssa McElwain issued three walks (two to Major and one to Bixler) and struck out four. She allowed only a Maggi Mallon single.
Peterson threw three innings and Ellie Polich two for the Hawks.
W-G returns to action Thursday when they host Southeast Valley, with Bondurant-Farrar to visit Friday.
