Wildcats slug past Beavers, Thunder
Blair-Taylor centerfielder Landonn Daffinson ran in to catch a flyball during last Tuesday’s game against Augusta. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor softball team’s bats were alive as the team scored a combined 25 runs in two wins last week.
B-T started slowly in its 11-1 win over Augusta last week Tuesday, but the team pulled away late. On Friday, B-T scored at least one run in each of its four at-bats, beating Osseo-Fairchild, 14-1.
The wins put B-T at 8-4 on the season before Tuesday’s game at Eleva-Strum. B-T is set to play at Alma Center Lincoln on Thursday and in Whitehall on Friday. This coming Tuesday, they’ll host Independence/Gilmanton with a game against Alma/Pepin next Thursday.
B-T 11 Augusta 1
The scoring didn’t start until later in the game, but the Wildcats didn’t slow down once they got started.
The game was scoreless through three and a half innings, that changed when Emma Wathke tripled with the bases loaded to bring three runs in. Augusta responded with one run in the top of the fifth, but they wouldn’t step to the plate again.
The Wildcats ended the game by mercy rule with eight runs in the bottom of the fifth. Andi Beck led off with a double and scored on a triple by Andrea Waldera. After Waldera scored on a passed ball, the Wildcats got RBI singles from Elissa Smetana, Avery Peterson and Beck. The game ended when Andrea Aleckson hit into an error, allowing Addison Lejcher to score.
B-T had 10 hits in the game, Beck, Waldera and Smetana all had two.
Aleckson got the win in the circle, holding the Beavers to three hits and one walk while striking out six.
B-T 14 O-F 1
The Thunder couldn’t stop B-T as the Wildcats scored the first 14 runs in the game.
The Wildcats took the lead in the first when Frederixon bunted for a single, stole second and third then scored on a groundout.
B-T put up five runs in the second and four in both the third and fourth innings.
Smetana smacked a two-run double in the second then Frederixon brought two home on a single before Beck doubled in another.
Frankie Zentgraf and Beck hit RBI singles in the third while Frederixon brought a run home with a triple and Peterson doubled one in.
Wathke, Frederixon and Peterson had RBI singles in the fourth and Beck doubled another run home.
B-T had 15 hits in the game as Frederixon went four-for-four with four RBIs. Beck had three hits and three RBIs while Peterson also had three RBIs on two hits. Zentgraf had two hits and two RBIs.
Aleckson struck out seven while allowing five hits and three walks in the win.
