Hillcrest Softball Dominates Baxter, Falls in Extra Innings to Columbus

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Ravens Split Two At HLV Tourney Saturday – SOFTBALL
The Hillcrest Academy Raven softball scored a win and endured a defeat Saturday at the HLV Softball Tournament in Victor. The Ravens opened action with a dominating 11-1 win in five over the Baxter Bolts. The Bolts led 1-0 after one half inning, but the Ravens were relentless from that point, scoring twice in the first, three in the second, four in the third and two more in the fifth to end the game early. Hillcrest out hit Baxter 11-5 and drew four walks. Eight different Ravens scored a run and seven had a hit. Malia Yoder knocked in three on two hits with a run scored. Annika Schrock, Delaney Shaw and Marryn Boshart all had two hits. Schrock, Adrianne Blauvelt, Boshart, Ella Mize and Lyla Genkinger all drove in a run. Blauvelt and Schrock scored twice. In the circle, Mize worked four frames, giving up two hits, one unearned run and striking out five.

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Wildcats Outlast and Walk-off Ravens in Thursday Classic in Columbus – SOFTBALL
The Columbus Wildcat and Hillcrest Academy softball teams met for a back-and-forth battle Thursday in CJ that saw the ‘Cats come out on top 14-12 in eight. The Wildcats went on top with four runs in the first and Hillcrest answered with five in the second to go up 5-4. The Wildcats tied it at five in the third, and in the fourth, the Ravens catapulted back on top 9-5. Columbus chipped away with one in the bottom of four, two in the fifth and one in the sixth to knot things at nine. Hillcrest seemed to retake control with three in the seventh, and was three outs away from clinching the key road win, but the Wildcat’s matched it with three of their own in the bottom half to force extra softball. After a scoreless Raven eighth, Columbus walked it off in the home half.

The Wildcats out hit the Ravens 14-10 in the win. The Ravens walked 10 ten times, the Wildcats six. Columbus was led by Ellie Sanders and Jessica Del Rio who combined for six hits, four runs and two RBI. Daniela Diaz, Lily Coil and Jacqueline Farrier each had two hits, Farrier drove in three, Coil two and Diaz scored four times. Kennedy Woepking was the winning pitcher, throwing three innings with two runs, four walks and five strikeouts.

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