Iola High’s Fillies and Mustangs overwhelmed the visiting Neodesha High’s softball and baseball teams Thursday
The Fillies and Bluestreaks played a very quick game — there was only one contest scheduled. Iola took just three innings to defeat Neodesha 17-1.
The Fillies scored 11 runs in the first inning, taking advantage of five walks and three hit batters, a couple of Neodesha errors and three hits. It was a similar pattern in the second inning allowing the Fillies to plate six runs.
Lauren Toney and Caitlyn Callaway each had a double for Iola. Hallie Cleaver, Libby Shay and Mackenzie Weseloh hit a single apiece.
Breail Thompson started and pitched one inning for Iola. She gave up one hit and struck out one.
Weseloh pitched the second inning, allowing one run on one hit and had two strikeouts. Hannah Endicott threw one scoreless and hitless inning. She struck out one.
The Fillies notched their fourth win of the season. They are 4-12 overall
The Mustangs posted back-to-back 10-0 victories in five innings in each game.
Aaron Barclay and Trent Latta threw complete games for Iola. Barclay allowed two hits, walked two and struck out two in the first game and Latta limited the Bluestreaks to four hits and had three strikeouts.
In the first game, it wasn’t until the fourth inning that the Mustangs broke away. They led 4-0 on two runs in each of the first two innings.
With one gone in the fourth, Braden Larson reached on a dropped third strike to open the door to a five-run inning. Drew Walden drove home the final two runs on a double.
Larson reached on another error in the fifth with one out but was retired on a fielder’s choice by Devon Conner. Conner stole second and scored the game-ending run on an RBI single by Jarred Latta.
Levi Ashmore hit two singles in the game. Larson, Conner and J. Latta had a single apiece and Walden hit a double.
The Mustangs piled up the runs early in the second game — five runs each in the first two innings. Mason Coons drove in two runs on a single then Derrick Weir hit a three-run home run.
