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PREP SOFTBALL: Webb City ends regular season with win over Rock Bridge

By:
SoMo Sports staff reports

 

WEBB CITY, Mo. — The Webb City softball team ended the regular season on a positive note.

The Cardinals defeated Rock Bridge 10-8 in a non-conference clash on Saturday.

In other action, Kickapoo defeated Webb City 5-2.

The Cardinals ended the regular season with a record of 14-12.

 

WEBB CITY 10, ROCK BRIDGE 8

The Cardinals scored six runs in the first inning to take control. The game was deadlocked at seven after three innings when Webb City plated three runs in the fourth. Rock Bridge got a run back in the fifth.

Emalee Lamar went 2-for-2 with three RBI and two runs scored for the Cardinals, while Hannah Wells drove in two runs on two hits. 

Peyton Hawkins and Kaylyn Gilbert had two hits apiece, while Dawsyn Decker had two RBI. 

Hawkins pitched two innings and allowed five earned runs on three hits and four walks. Laney Taylor earned the win after tossing five innings. Taylor allowed two earned runs on six hits and struck out two.

Rock Bridge’s Annabelle Head was charged with the loss. She surrendered six runs, four earned, on five hits in two innings.

Lucy Sadewhite drove in three runs on two hits for Rock Bridge. 

 

 KICKAPOO 5, WEBB CITY 2

The Chiefs plated two runs in the fourth and three in the seventh. Webb City pushed across a single tally in both the fifth and seventh innings. 

In the fifth, Lamar singled, with Sydney Strickland pinch-running. Strickland scored on Emma Welch’s RBI single to right.

In the seventh, Decker and Hawkins both singled before Welch delivered an RBI double to left. The Cardinals could do no further damage before the third out was recorded.

Welch went 3-for-4 with two RBI for Webb City, while Hawkins had two hits. 

Taylor pitched all seven innings for the Cardinals, allowing five runs, two earned, on nine hits. Taylor struck out two and walked one.

Kickapoo’s Taryn Hagardt contributed a two-run double in the fourth, while Karli Facklam hit a two-run homer in the seventh.

Allison Scott was the winning pitcher. She gave up two runs on nine hits and struck out five. 

 

WHAT’S NEXT?

Third-seeded Webb City will take on sixth-seeded Hillcrest at 6:30 on Wednesday in Neosho in a quarterfinal contest of the Class 4 District 6 tournament.

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