Stars put on hitting clinic

FORT WAYNE — The Starfires put on a hitting clinic Wednesday.

South Adams High School’s softball team racked up 26 total hits, including 12 for more than one base, in a 20-1, five-inning rout of the host Canterbury Cavaliers.

The Starfires (3-1), who finished 14th in the most recent Class 2A Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association poll, scored five runs in each of the first two innings before scoring four in the third and fourth frames. Another two in the fifth gave SAHS a 20-0 lead before the Cavaliers plated their only run in the home half of the inning.

Emilie Hammell led the Starfire offense with three triples, a single and six RBIs. Taylor Augsburger blasted three doubles and knocked in five runs while Jenna Myers and Anna Nussbaum had two doubles each. Kristen Wynn collected a double, three singles and three RBIs. Jade Baker and Aaliyah Feaster totaled three hits each.

Baker got the win pitching. She allowed one hit and and walked one in three innings of work with six strikeouts. Hammell struck out three and walked a pair in two innings of relief.



SA falls late

BERNE — The South Adams junior varsity softball team came up short in a 7-6 loss in eight innings to Bellmont on Wednesday.

The Starfires (2-2) fell behind 5-2 in the fifth inning before pushing across two runs in the next two innings — Bellmont scored once in the top of the sixth — to force an eighth. That’s when Bellmont took the lead for good.

Carlie Sealscott tripled and doubled for South Adams, which also got hits from Megan Miller, Kaelynn Miller, Vivian O’Dell, Lilly Patterson and Dominga Guerra. Skyler Sikes, Megan Miller and Patterson each had RBIs.