COLONY — The Marmaton Valley High softball team swept a pair of road matchups at Crest Thursday afternoon.
The Wildcats (2-4) earned their first wins of the season at the plate where they combined to bring home 36 runs and allow only 12 runs. Payton Scharff smashed a two-run home run in the second game to cap a day of lopsided victories, 18-11 and 18-1.
Game one
Marmaton Valley trailed Crest 7-5 heading to the fifth before the Wildcats outscored the Lady Lancers 13-4 through the final three innings. When Bailey LaRue scored in the top of the fifth, it gave Marmaton Valley an 8-5 lead, a lead which they wouldn’t surrender the rest of the way.
“Our bats worked tonight,” said Marmaton Valley head coach Brenda Mills. “I thought we made a good comeback because sometimes Tayven gets into pressure but we were all behind her tonight.”
Haylee Lanham, Mary Brown, Khiana Haynes and Shelby Sprague each scored in the top of the sixth inning to take a 12-7 advantage. The Wildcats then added on six more runs in the top of the seventh inning concluding with LaRue touching home plate for the 18-8 edge.
Crest plated three runs in the bottom of the seventh including Haylee Beckman and Allyssa Adams scoring the final runs but that’s all the Lady Lancers would come up with in an 18-11 loss.
The Wildcats had 14 hits while the Lady Lancers knocked seven hits. Scharff and Haynes led Marmaton Valley with three hits apiece while Kayla Hermreck had a team-high three hits for Crest.
Game two
It was all Marmaton Valley in the second game of the doubleheader. The Wildcats opened by scoring 12 runs in the top of the first inning and three more runs in the top of the second. The Wildcat squad wouldn’t need much more help by cruising to an 18-1 victory.
“We started off the second game making outs,” Mills said. “That kept the momentum on our side I think. Payton just keeps firing them in there and lets them hit the ball. She lets our defense do the work behind her and it worked out tonight.”
Brooklyn Adams walked, Braelyn Sutton doubled, Mary Brown walked, Haynes walked, Gabby Briggs walked and LaRue knocked a single and they all scored in the top of the first. It was a walk fest for Crest pitcher Liliana Blaufuss.
Scharff started in the pitcher’s circle in game two and allowed one run in the second inning with only two hits allowed. The lone run which scored was Adams on a H. Beckman RBI single for the 15-1 deficit.
Blaufuss allowed 11 Marmaton Valley batters to come to the plate in the top of the first before recording a second out. She allowed the Wildcats nine hits through four innings.
Crest hosts Uniontown next Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Marmaton Valley hosts Oswego on Monday at 4:30 p.m.
