Defending Class 4A softball runner-up ADM pounded out 12 hits in racing in building a workman-like 10-0 win over host Perry Friday.
The Tigers (6-0 overall, 2-0 in Raccoon River Conference play), who return eight starters off last year’s title-game team, scored four times in the first inning, once in the second, four more times in the third and then once in the fifth.
ADM hurler Abbie Hlas needed little help, as she struck out 13 in claiming the win. She walked one batter, hit one and yielded one single.
Perry (0-4, 0-2) was guilty of six errors in the contest, four of them in the outfield on misplayed balls that turned hits in extra bases and helped the guests keep the scoreboard moving.
Hlas, who entered the game hitting over .800, drove in five runs with a pair of doubles and plated another with a sacrifice fly. Morgan Meyer had two hits, Olivia Tollari two singles, a double and a walk and Emily Hlas two base hits to lead the attack.
Leading 4-0, ADM loaded the bases with no outs in the second, but Jayna Kenney induced a trio of fly out to left field to limit the damage to a single tally.
An error, a walk and an Abbie Hlas three-run double — all with two outs — helped to swell the lead to 9-0 after three innings. The Tigers tacked on a final run in the fifth and might have scored more, but Peyton Tunink relieved Kenney with two on and one down and recorded a strikeout and a soft liner to end the rally.
Tunink’s clean single through the left side with two down in the bottom of the fifth spoiled the no-hitter for Abbie Hlas.
Lydia Olejniczak walked and stole second to start the bottom of the first for Perry but was stranded after three consecutive strikeouts.
Libby Hastings was hit by a pitch with two outs in the second, with pinch runner Kathryn West left on first base as Abbie Hlas began a string of eight consecutive strikeouts.
Kenney yielded 10 runs (six earned) on 12 hits and two walks in 4-1/3 innings, with Tunink facing two batters, fanning one and retiring the other.
Perry plays Baxter at 9:30 a.m. in the Paul and Mary Ann Graves Classic, with IKM-Manning meeting Van Meter in the second game. The consolation game will start at approximately 12:45 a.m. if not sooner, with the title game to follow.
