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Lady Panthers overcome rain, Mason County in 11-1 win
Friday, May 2, 2008 10:09 PM EDT
The visiting Mason County Lady Royals and their supporters would likely use the latter description after falling to Fleming County, 11-1, in a four-inning, mercy-rule shortened contest.
In a scheduled twinbill of five-inning games, Mother Nature intervened and canceled the nightcap as the rain showers steadily increased during the opener, which began with the Lady Panthers scoring six unearned runs in the opening inning.
Fleming's big inning came after the Lady Royals scored a single run in the top of the first. Tiara Harris led off the game with a walk against freshman Victoria Sergent and she came around to score on a groundout by Sarah Mitchell.
As it turned out, that would be the only run for the visitors, who were also held hitless by Sergent, helping the Lady Panthers snap a nine-game losing streak. The Lady Royals dropped their second game in two days and fell to 8-10 with the defeat.
Fleming County coach Anthony Mullins was pleased with Sergent's effort and with the steady improvement his young club is demonstrating.
"Victoria was a little intimidated and nervous at the beginning of the game, but she really settled down and pitched well," Mullins said. "In the last few games, the girls are starting to come together as a team, which is encouraging. We have a very young team, with just one senior and two juniors, and we've been playing a very difficult schedule. I feel that we have to do that to improve this program and we had a lot of good hits today."
Four of those hits came in the opening frame and all six runs scored after two outs. Base hits from Chelsea Kaenzig, Kaitlin Fearin, Christine Knipp and Molly Crain, along with three walks and a pair of Lady Royal errors, led to the six-run uprising.
Back-to-back doubles from Sergent and Amber Ruark plated a run in the second inning before the Lady Panthers tacked on three more in the third. Two-base hits into left-center field from Allison Conley and Kayla Brown were the key hits in the third inning and the game-clincher was scored with nobody out in the fourth when Ruark scored on an error after her second double of the game.
The Lady Royals will host Rowan County on Monday, and Fleming County is scheduled to play in today's McDonald's Classic at Harrison County.
Mason County 100 0 1 0 4
Fleming County 613 1 11 9 1
WP -- Sergent. LP -- Greenhill.
Hitting leaders: MC (Harris R; Mitchell RBI), FC (Crain 1-3, RBI; Brown 1-3, 2B, 2R, 2RBI; Kaenzig 1-3, R; Sergent 1-2, 2B, 2R; Ruark 2-2, 2 2B, 2R, RBI; Fearin 1-3, R, RBI; Conley 1-1, 2B, 2R, RBI, Knipp 1-1, R, 2RBI).
Records: Mason County 8-10, Fleming County 3-14.
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