A series of defensive and base-running errors cost the Perry softball team a chance at victory Thursday, one day after unearned runs in the sixth and seventh innings burned the Jayettes against host Bondurant-Farrar.
The results were a 13-4 loss to visiting Ballard Thursday and a heart-breaking 2-1 loss at Bondurant-Farrar Wednesday.
Perry (2-8, 0-5) trailed visiting Ballard (10-4, 4-0), 2-0, in the bottom of the third when Lydia Olejniczak tied the game with a two-run home run, plating Jayna Kenney. The long ball was the third of the season for the eighth-grade standout.
Adriana Eastman reached on a Bomber error and scored on a Kenney Tunink base hit in the fourth, but a base-running mistake cost Perry a chance to load the bases, with a ground out snuffing the rally at just one run.
Ballard scored twice in the top of the fifth, then used a three-run error and a second defensive lapse to plate seven runs in the sixth. The guests added a final two runs in the seventh, with Olejniczak doubling and scoring on a Macy Killmer hit in the bottom of the seventh.
Unofficial pitching statistics have Peyton Tunink limiting Ballard to six hits while striking out two. She issued five walks and hit three batters, with 13 runs allowed, of which only five were earned.
Jayna Kenney pitched to two batters, allowing a hit.
Matty Beerbower yielded four runs on eight hits and a walk while striking out two.
The loss came after Wednesday’s game escaped Perry’s win column.
Killmer had a RBI-double, Peyton Tunink a double, a walk and a steal and Gabby West a base hit. Kennedy Tunink, Bella Nath, Olejniczak and Eastman also had singles, with Nath scoring and stealing a base.
B-F (7-7, 1-3) scored on a sacrifice fly after the runner reached on an error to tie the game in the bottom of the sixth. The hosts used two one-out singles, with an error loading the bases. A pop-out was the second out — and would have been the third — with a wild pitch allowing the winning run to score.
Peyton Tunink went 5-1/3 innings, allowing three hits and five walks while fanning three. Kenney allowed one hit and three walks in relief.
Perry plays Lewis Central today at 4 p.m. in the Woodward-Granger Classic. They will face Ogden at 12 p.m. and host W-G at 2 p.m. Saturday.
