COLONY — Bumpy starts on the softball diamond spelled trouble Tuesday for Crest High.
The Lady Lancers saw visiting Southern Lyon County erupt for six runs in the first game of their doubleheader, and six more in the second inning of Game 2.
Crest rallied in both games, but came up on the short end of both, 14-4 and 19-14.
Southern Lyon County pushed its lead to 10-0 after 3½ innings before Crest found its offensive swagger.
Aylee Beckmon started the bottom of the fourth with a single. She stole a base and came home on Kaylee Allen’s base hit. McKenna Powell followed with a single and Liliana Blaufuss a double, but a Lady Lancer runner was thrown out at the plate in the process. The rally ended, but not before Powell stole home for a second run.
Brooklyn Jones and Delaney Ramsey both singled to start the fifth, and both wound up stealing home to cap the Crest scoring.
Kaelin Nilges led the offense with a single and double. Kinley Edgerton and Blaufuss also doubled. Ramsey singled twice, as did Beckmon and Allen. Jones and Powell each had a single.
Jones pitched four innings, allowing six hits. Blaufuss pitched an inning, allowing one hit. The duo combined to strike out four.
CREST scored single runs in each of the first two innings, after Jones singled and scored on Nilges’s RBI grounder and then Blaufuss walked and eventually stole home.
Problem was, Crest already trailed 7-2.
Southern Lyon County’s lead swelled to 16-2, and was seemingly ready to cruise to another big win.
Crest had other ideas.
Jones ripped an RBI double in the bottom of the fifth, and scored on Ramsey’s double. Blaufuss walked with the bases loaded to pull Crest to within 16-7.
Kinley Romines singled and Allison Romines walked to start the bottom of the sixth. Jones singled in Romines and Ramsey’s two-run double made it 16-9. Nilges followed with an RBI grounder, Beckmon reached on an infield single for another score, and the deficit stood at 16-11.
Southern Lyon County plated three more insurance runs in the top of the seventh, which prevented things from becoming really interesting in the bottom half of the frame.
