After watching visiting Burlington High rally in the seventh inning to win in their opener Thursday, Iola High’s junior varsity softball team returned the favor in the second game. THE FILLIES trailed 4-1 after 2 1/2 innings of the opener before scoring once in the third, then taking the lead with five runs in the bottom of the fourth.
The teams split wins, Burlington prevailing 11-8 in the first game; Iola winning, 4-3, in the second.
The Fillies’ come-from-behind win came when Katie Shields led off the bottom of the seventh with a single. Bayleigh Seeber reached on an error, scoring Shields, to tie the score at 3-3.
Ashlie Shields followed with a double, scoring Seeber and giving the Fillies the walk-off victory.
Iola took a 1-0 in the first inning. Emily McKarnin singled and scored on Baylea Thompson’s two-out single.
Burlington took a 2-1 lead in the second and held it until the bottom of the fifth. Ashlie Shields singled and scored on an error to tie the score and send the game into extra innings.
The Wildcats responded with a run in the top of sixth to lead 3-2 before Iola’s rally.
Thompson handled the pitching duties, allowing eight hits and three walks.
Ashlie Shields had a single and double. Thompson had two singles. Clarie Moran, Katie Shields and Emily McKarnin had one single each.
But Burlington responded with seven in the top of the fifth to take an 11-7 lead. Ashlie Shields singled and scored in the bottom of the inning, but Iola drew no closer.
Ashlie Shields also singled and scored in the first inning. McKarnin singled and scored on an error in the third.
Mackenzie Weseloh’s three-run triple was the big blow for Iola in the bottom of the fourth. She then scored on Micaiah Larney’s RBI single.
Weseloh and Hannah Endicott pitched, giving up nine hits with three walks and nine strikeouts.
At the plate, Ashlie Shields had two singles. McKarnin singled, as did Taylor Heslop. Weseloh had a single and triple. Larney had a single.
Rally leads Fillies to late victory
