HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt High softball team didn’t make it easy for Osawatomie at home on Thursday.
The Lady Cubs earned a pair of lopsided victories, 22-5 and 11-1. Emily Ross scored a team-high six runs and Shelby Shaughnessy gave up only six runs on the mound.
Game one
Humboldt scored a whopping 18 runs in the first two innings before Osawatomie was able to strike for five runs in the top of the third inning — their lone runs of the game. Humboldt added four more runs in the fifth for the 22-5 win.
Karley Wools and Carsyn Haviland both singled and scored on a Ross two-run double. Skyler Hottenstein and Tavyn Baylor then walked before Chanlynn Wrestler drove home three more runs on a triple for the 5-0 lead.
Morgan Sterling walked and Wools doubled home a run before Shaughnessy blasted a three-run home run for the 10-0 advantage in the first inning. Ross walked and scored on a S. Hottenstein RBI double for the 11-0 edge.
The Lady Cubs scored seven in the bottom of the second inning, beginning with a Chloe Daniels walk and wrapping up with a S. Hottenstein RBI single for the 18-0 lead.
After Osawatomie plated five runs in the top of the third inning, the Lady Cubs came back in the fifth inning and plated their final four runs. Daniels knocked an RBI single to put an exclamation point on a 22-5 drubbing.
“We hit the ball well. Eleven runs in the first inning is pretty good,” Humboldt head coach Brad Piley said. “I was pleased in the first inning with our hitting. In the second game it took a little while to put things together.”
Game two
Shaughnessy shut down Osawatomie’s lineup and Humboldt struck for two runs in the first inning, six runs in the third and another three runs in the fifth for the 11-0 win. The third inning was the Lady Cubs big inning when they scored six runs.
Haviland and Ross scored in the bottom of the first inning for the early 2-0 lead. It was followed up by Shaughnessy mowing down the first eight batters and not allowing a base runner until the third inning, a Lexie Palmer walk.
“It’s huge when you can get somebody on base and get them moved around the bases that fast,” Piley said. “Laney (Hull) is one of our best base runners and can score very fast. That’s huge for when we get to regionals and runs are more limited.”
Shaughnessy worked all five innings while allowing only one hit and three total base runners.
The first five batters in Humboldt’s lineup scored in the bottom of the third while Wrestler also got in on the fun and ripped a home run for the 8-0 lead. Daniels then drove in two runs in the fifth and then she scored the final run for the 11-0 win.
