GOLDEN CITY, Mo. — The College Heights Christian softball team split a pair of games on Monday.
College Heights beat Golden City 14-4 in six innings in the opener, but Pierce City defeated the Cougars 5-4 in the nightcap.
College Heights is now 14-3. The Cougars will host Wheaton on Friday.
COLLEGE HEIGHTS 14, GOLDEN CITY 4
The Cougars were already up 5-0 when they erupted for seven runs in the third inning.
College Heights led 13-0 after the top of the fourth when Golden City scored four unanswered runs, once in the fourth and three in the fifth.
The Cougars added a run in the sixth and the game ended early due to the run-rule when the hosts failed to score in the bottom half.
Maddy Colin did not allow a hit and struck out seven in three innings in the circle. Addie Lawrence pitched two innings, striking out three, and Jayli Johnson went one inning.
Kloee Williamson went 3-for-4 at the plate with two RBI and two runs scored, while Avery Good went 3-for-3 with four runs scored.
Johnson homered, drove in two runs and scored three times, while Colin contributed two hits. Layne Jackson, Sarah Painter, Lauren Ukena and Good had one RBI apiece.
Golden City’s Brooke Beerly and Maggie Reed both tripled.
Beerly pitched three innings and allowed eight earned runs on 13 hits while striking out three. Sienna Wirth also went three innings and gave up one earned run and fanned two.
PIERCE CITY 5, COLLEGE HEIGHTS 4
The Cougars scored twice in the first when Williamson scored on an error before Lawrence delivered a run-scoring double to center.
After the Eagles tied the game in the second, CHC added a run in the third when Colin hit an RBI triple to left, scoring Johnson.
Pierce City tied the game in the bottom half of the third when Riley Gripka tripled and later scored on Mollie Beeson’s groundout.
The game was still deadlocked in the bottom of the sixth when Pierce City’s Hailey Gripka hit a two-run double to left field.
College Heights got a run back in the seventh, as Colin walked and scored on Lawrence’s RBI triple. But the Cougars were unable to tie the game, as Lawrence was stranded.
Lawrence went 3-for-4 with two RBI, while Colin had two hits.
Ari Calandro struck out three in one inning. Colin went five innings, striking out six while allowing three earned runs on seven hits.
Beeson was the winning pitcher. She went the distance and gave up two earned runs on eight hits while striking out eight.
Hailey Gripka went 3-for-3 with four RBI for the Eagles (14-5).
