OSAWATOMIE — Iola High’s softball team made up for lost time Tuesday. THINGS WERE a bit tighter in the nightcap. IN THEIR FIRST action of the year, the Fillies JV dropped a pair of decisions, 10-4 and 7-6.
Playing their first games in 19 days, the Fillies swept past host Osawatomie High, winning 14-1 and 11-8.
The wins even Iola’s record at 2-2 on the young season.
Iola’s offense was clicking from the start, pounding out 13 hits and taking advantage of four walks in the opener. The Fillies erupted for four runs in the first inning and three more in the second to take control.
Leading the charge was Hannah Endicott, who went 4-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored.
Mackenzie Weseloh, Shelby Reno and Holly Schomaker each had two singles. Katie Thompson and Tessa Rowe singled.
Weseloh kept things under control from the pitcher’s circle, scattering six hits in six innings. She tossed 11 strikeouts with four walks.
The game was scoreless until Osawatomie plated three against Endicott in the bottom of the third.
The Fillies responded in a flash.
Iola erupted for five runs in the top of the fourth to take the lead for good.
Osawatomie errors were sandwiched around singles by Endicott and Reno. Thompson followed with a double, then Katie Shields capped the rally with a run-scoring single.
A single by Endicott and a Schomaker double in the fifth pushed Iola’s lead to 6-3. Rowe reached on an error and scored a run to lead off the sixth, pushing the advantage to four, 7-3.
Osawatomie didn’t go quietly. The Trojans cut the gap to 7-6 with a three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth.
Reno and Rowe doubled in the top of the seventh as part of a four-run rally.
The Trojans scored twice more in the bottom of the seventh before Endicott retired the last three batters in order. She gave up eight hits and four walks with four strikeouts.
Four of the Fillies’ eight hits went for extra bases.
Reno led the way with a single and double. Endicott had two singles. Schomaker, Thompson and Rowe each had doubles, while Shields singled.
Baylea Thompson pitched in the opener, giving up five hits with four strikeouts.
Ashlie Shields, Taylor Heslop and Thompson had singles.
In the second contest, Ashlie Shields had two singles. Emily McKarnin and Thompson added one single apiece.
The Fillies return to action Monday at Anderson County.
Fillies sweep past Trojans
