The Trenton Lady Bulldogs softball team missed an opportunity Tuesday as they fell 3-1 to Lawson on Griffin Field.
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Junior pitcher Chanel Pash was lights out on the hill, controlling the Lawson line-up all night. Pash carried a perfect game into the fifth inning, where she walked one, giving the Lady Cardinals their first baserunner of the night. Pash’s no hitter went into the seventh inning but, after retiring the lead-off batter on a come-backer to the mound, the Lady Cardinals recorded their first hit of the contest.
Things got bad from that point on as three Lady Bulldog errors were committed, allowing three Lawson runs to score.
In the bottom of the seventh, Trenton came to bat trailing 3-1, but had their three, four and five hitters due up. Unfortunately, it took Lawson just four pitches to retire the heart of the Lady Bulldogs’ lineup and hand Trenton its second loss in as many days.
“We just got beat,” Head Coach Steve Richman said. “Sometimes the ball doesn’t roll right. We had some things happen there in the seventh. I thought we should have gotten an interference call and we didn’t, but you can’t complain about things like that. We just let one slip away. Both teams we played in the last two nights were quality teams and I think we are a quality team. We just need to figure out how to win those games. Overall I think we played a good ball game. We need to get the bats going a little better, but once we do that we will be fine.”
Trenton’s lone run came in the third inning. Pash doubled and a few batters later Maddie Hooyman tripled, scoring Madi Trump, who was courtesy running for Pash. The hits by Hooyman and Pash were the only two recorded by the Lady Bulldogs in the game.
Pash took the loss on the hill despite giving up just one earned run. Pash struck out three in her seven innings of work.
“I think Chanel did a good job of locating the ball and changing speeds,” Richman said. “There a couple of times she really got them whiffing with her off-speed pitch. She kept them off balance and the defense was solid behind her for the most part.”
Trenton dropped to 3-2 on the season following the loss.
In the junior varsity game that followed, the Lady Bulldogs ran up a 13-1 win over the Lawson JV in three innings. Trenton scored 13 runs in just two times at bat.
Ashley Holloway led the JV attack with two RBI doubles and two runs scored. The top six in the lineup all scored two runs each – Madi Trump, Makaila Capeder, Holloway, Shelby Chaney, Katie Halstead and Mariah Elliott. Tosha Wilson scored the team’s other run and Brittany Demsich had a single and two RBIs.
Scotlin Hurley threw two perfect innings on the hill, striking out five. Elliott shut down Lawson in the third, striking out one.
The win moved the JV squad to 3-1 on the season.
Both the Trenton varsity and JV will be in action at the Carrollton Quad on Saturday. The varsity will face the host school Carrollton at 9 a.m., Higginsville at 1:30 p.m. and Lone Jack at 3 p.m. The JV schedule will see the Lady Bulldogs facing Carrollton at 10:30 a.m., Higginsville at noon and Lone Jack at 4:30 p.m.