Allen Community College continued its torrid start to the 2024 softball season Monday.
One day after sweeping Seward County, the Red Devils were back on the diamond to take on Southeast of Beatrice, Neb.
Allen used a little bit of everything to pick up another sweep and extend its winning streak to four.
In the opener, Allen rode the pitching brilliance of Camrynn Yardley and some timely hitting to pull in a 3-1 victory.
Then, after spotting Southeast to a 5-0 lead through 4½ innings, Allen erupted for seven in the bottom of the fifth and pulled away from there for a 9-5 romp.
“They’re playing really well together,” Allen head coach Nicole Peters said. “Where one lacks, you have somebody else picking up. It says a lot about our team.”
Yardley shined in the pitcher’s circle in game one, scattering five hits over seven innings with eight strikeouts.
Allen plated a run after loading the bases with one out in the bottom of the first on a sac fly from Jena Hendrix. Ashley Tribble doubled with one out in the fourth and scored on a passed ball for a 2-0 lead.
Southeast got a run back in the top of the fifth before Yardley stranded runners on first and second with a fly ball.
Bailey Campbell’s bunt single led to an insurance run for ACC in the bottom of the fifth. She came around to score on Madisyn Havenstein’s two-out single and a Southeast error.
Yardley worked around a leadoff single in the top of the seventh to seal the win.
Campbell paced the offense with a pair of singles and runs scored. Tribble had a double and a run. Hayley Gerberding and Havenstein also had singles.
THE drama cranked up a few notches for Game 2.
“We had some errors early on, but we definitely re-collected ourselves in the later innings,” Peters noted.
Southeast pushed ahead with two in the second and three in the third.
