July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Tiger homer puts end to Jay's streak (05/02/06)
JCHS softball
Tiger homer puts end to Jay's streak (05/02/06)
By By RAY COONEY-
The door was open for either team. Yorktown’s Mallory Masiongale slammed it shut on the Patriots.
Masiongale’s two-run home run in the seventh inning lifted the visiting Tigers to a 3-1 victory Monday, ending the Jay County softball team’s five-game winning streak.
“That’s a pretty good ball team,” said JCHS coach Jack Wood, whose team is now 9-8. “We played well for about five or six innings ... then we had a couple mental errors. We just didn’t hit the ball real well like we had been hitting it. ... We didn’t strike out much — we were putting the ball in play — but we didn’t get the big hits ...”
The Patriots had a 1-0 lead for the first five innings before Yorktown pulled even in the sixth. Then Masiongale delivered the one big hit her team needed.
Alicia MacIntyre was on second base after her pop-up on the infield fell between third baseman Morgan Locke and shorstop Amber Edmundson. Tiger coach Vicki MacIntyre decided against a sacrifice bunt, and Masiongale made the choice pay off with a line shot over the center field fence just to the left-field side of the scoreboard.
“She did a great job,” said MacIntyre of her No. 2 hitter. “She was patient, she waited on it, she did an outstanding job.
All of Yorktown’s runs and four of its six hits came in the final two innings. Clean-up hitter Krystal Harper finished 2-for-2 with a run.
“I think it’s our girls’ motivation,” said MacIntyre of the late surge. “They want it. I have a team that never gives up. They’re a fighting team.”
By contrast, Jay County had just one hit after the second inning.
Shae Keller doubled to lead off the bottom of the sixth, and moved to second on an Amber Champ sacrifice bunt. But the Patriots couldn’t push the run across and Yorktown took the win in the seventh.
The Patriots’ lone run came in the first when Amber Champ walked. Trisha Champ pushed her to second with a single to right field, and Morgan Locke delivered a two-out, RBI single to center.
With senior co-captain Chelsea DeBoy, the shortstop and clean-up hitter, sitting out because of strep throat, the Patriots committed four errors to end a streak of three consecutive error-free games.
“Having Chelsea out sick ... any time you take one of our seniors out of the starting lineup and you don’t have that leadership out there, that hurts,” said Wood.
Still, he added of his team’s recent run of success: “Everything is coming together. Tonight the girls were pretty down. We had won five in a row and they wanted it to continue. They don’t have anything to be ashamed of. It was a good ball game, we just didn’t get the hits when we needed them.”
Shae Keller took the loss, giving up three runs — two earned — on six hits and three walks.
Whitney Upchurch went the distance for the Yorktown victory as she allowed one run on four hits. She struck out five and walked two.[[In-content Ad]]
Masiongale’s two-run home run in the seventh inning lifted the visiting Tigers to a 3-1 victory Monday, ending the Jay County softball team’s five-game winning streak.
“That’s a pretty good ball team,” said JCHS coach Jack Wood, whose team is now 9-8. “We played well for about five or six innings ... then we had a couple mental errors. We just didn’t hit the ball real well like we had been hitting it. ... We didn’t strike out much — we were putting the ball in play — but we didn’t get the big hits ...”
The Patriots had a 1-0 lead for the first five innings before Yorktown pulled even in the sixth. Then Masiongale delivered the one big hit her team needed.
Alicia MacIntyre was on second base after her pop-up on the infield fell between third baseman Morgan Locke and shorstop Amber Edmundson. Tiger coach Vicki MacIntyre decided against a sacrifice bunt, and Masiongale made the choice pay off with a line shot over the center field fence just to the left-field side of the scoreboard.
“She did a great job,” said MacIntyre of her No. 2 hitter. “She was patient, she waited on it, she did an outstanding job.
All of Yorktown’s runs and four of its six hits came in the final two innings. Clean-up hitter Krystal Harper finished 2-for-2 with a run.
“I think it’s our girls’ motivation,” said MacIntyre of the late surge. “They want it. I have a team that never gives up. They’re a fighting team.”
By contrast, Jay County had just one hit after the second inning.
Shae Keller doubled to lead off the bottom of the sixth, and moved to second on an Amber Champ sacrifice bunt. But the Patriots couldn’t push the run across and Yorktown took the win in the seventh.
The Patriots’ lone run came in the first when Amber Champ walked. Trisha Champ pushed her to second with a single to right field, and Morgan Locke delivered a two-out, RBI single to center.
With senior co-captain Chelsea DeBoy, the shortstop and clean-up hitter, sitting out because of strep throat, the Patriots committed four errors to end a streak of three consecutive error-free games.
“Having Chelsea out sick ... any time you take one of our seniors out of the starting lineup and you don’t have that leadership out there, that hurts,” said Wood.
Still, he added of his team’s recent run of success: “Everything is coming together. Tonight the girls were pretty down. We had won five in a row and they wanted it to continue. They don’t have anything to be ashamed of. It was a good ball game, we just didn’t get the hits when we needed them.”
Shae Keller took the loss, giving up three runs — two earned — on six hits and three walks.
Whitney Upchurch went the distance for the Yorktown victory as she allowed one run on four hits. She struck out five and walked two.[[In-content Ad]]
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