MOUND CITY — Marmaton Valley High’s pitching and defense let them down most in a pair of lopsided losses at Jayhawk-Linn on Thursday.
The Wildcats went down early in both games and couldn’t come up with much of anything offensively in a pair of 16-1 losses. Payton Scharff started at pitcher in game one before Haylee Lanham took the ball in a game two loss.
Game one
Scharff started at pitcher and gave up one run in the first inning, eight runs in the second and seven runs in the third. Marmaton Valley’s lone run crossed home plate in the top of the third inning when Khiana Haynes scored on a Braelyn Sutton RBI double for the 9-1 deficit.
All nine Jayhawk-Linn batters touched home plate for a run while the Jayhawks combined for nine hits and nine walks. Kaylee Naton mashed a team-high three hits for her Jayhawks.
Marmaton Valley went for three hits while B. Sutton knocked in the lone run.
Game two
It was much of the same result when the Wildcats were taken down again in game two, 16-1.
The Jayhawks plated nine runs in the first inning, five more runs in the second and two runs in the fourth inning. The Wildcats responded by only scoring one run in the bottom of the second. Lanham started in the circle for Marmaton Valley and was hit with the damage early.
Lanham mainly walked Jayhawk-Linn’s batters, accounting for a total of 16 walks.
That’s not to say the Jayhawks weren’t driving the ball around the field as they also finished with five hits. Bailey Unphenour had a team-high two hits for the Jayhawks.
Scharff scored the lone run for Marmaton Valley in the top of the second inning when she doubled and then scored on a Shelby Sprague RBI single for the 9-1 hole.
The Wildcats are at Northeast Monday at 4:30 p.m.
