The #4 (2A) West Fork softball team lost their first game of the year, in a heated extra inning battle against #9 (2A) Osage, 9-8 in nine innings on Monday.
West Fork in the first inning, had a two RBI double by Brooke Rother and a RBI single by Brylee Dickman, to take a 3-0 lead. Osage tied the game at 3-3 in the third. In the bottom of the third, Libby Trewin drove the Warhawks back in front with a two run home run, and Aizley Winfrey had an RBI single for a 6-3 lead. In the fourth, Osage hit a three run home to tie the game again at 6-6. A solo blast by Rother in the fifth inning inched the Warhawks back in front 7-6. The Green Devils tied it at 7-7 in the seventh. The Green Devils scored twice in the ninth for their first lead at 9-7. In the Warhawks ninth, Trewin hit a line drive home run to cut the deficit to 9-8. The Warhawks loaded the bases in the inning with one out but were denied from driving in the equalizer.
Head Coach Sadie Winfrey on the competitive matchup.
“Those are the games that make you better. I would like to see those games every single night, because those are the games that we’re learning from, and they’re going to make us better. As long as we learn from it, that was good for us, regardless of it was a win or a loss,” says Winfrey. “It was a good game. It’s nothing to hang their head about. I don’t think it’ll really drag us down for the week, necessarily. We get a couple of days off, to kind of fix some of those things that we struggled with tonight and clean it up. So we can finish the week off strong.”
The West Fork baseball team fell 8-4 to Osage on Monday. Osage pulled out to a 4-1 lead. The Warhawks rallied to tie it at 4-4 before entering the seventh inning. In the seventh, Osage scored four unanswered runs to hang on for a road win.
Head Coach Kayden Ames on the Green Devils seventh inning rally and what’s on deck for the team.
“We battled back and had it 4-4 going into the seventh, no place we’d rather be. We put a new guy on the mound and he didn’t throw bad. He walked a couple guys there at the beginning, which then hurt us with extra runs. They hit some baseballs hard and that’s gonna happen when you’re throwing strikes,” says Ames. “We have got very winnable games the rest of the week and I’m excited to come out and compete.”
West Fork softball (7-1) and Warhawk baseball (4-5) will both be at rival North Butler on Wednesday.
