The Trenton Lady Bulldog softball team, in action broadcast Tuesday night on Hot Country Z 101.7, scored 12 runs in the final four innings of play off of two separate Brookfield pitchers, rolling to a 12-2, six-inning win at Mark Griffin Memorial Field.
With Brookfield’s Charley Reese and Trenton’s McKayla Blackburn matching zero’s on the scoreboard for the first 2 1/2 innings, Reese had to deal with Trenton’s dangerous top of the order in the third, and the Lady Bulldogs pounced. Maci Moore smashed a one-out double to right-center field, with Chandler Lynch moving her to third on a single, with Lynch taking second on the throw into third base. Lexi Whitaker followed with her first RBI of the night, on a single, scoring Moore, with a misplay in right field scoring Lynch, and sending Whitaker to second. A McKayla Blackburn single moved Whitaker to third, with Blackburn taking second on the throw to third base, with Whitaker scoring the inning’s third run on a grounder to second base by Teya Cooksey, and Blackburn scoring on a throwing error by the Brookfield third baseman on a grounder hit by Gracyn Rongey.
Brookfield got one run back in the top of the 4th inning, with Rylee Sensenich singling, and scoring on a double to the outfield wall off the bat of Ella Daugherty, but Blackburn settled down from there to escape any further damage.
Trenton extended the lead to 6-1 in the bottom half of the frame, with Moore singling with one out, moving to second as Lynch was hit by a pitch, and scoring on Whitaker’s second RBI of the night, a run-scoring single. That hit moved Lynch to third, with Chandler coming home on a grounder to third by Blackburn.
The lead shrunk back to 6-2 in the Brookfield fifth, as Faith Smith singles, with a loud double by Zoey Chrisman scoring her. Whitaker’s big RBI night was completed in the bottom of the 5th, with the senior catcher stepping in with the bases filled with Bulldogs and only one out. Tom Johnson had the play-by-play call:
Whitaker’s RBI total reached five with the bases-clearing hit, with Trenton ending the game with three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, with Cooksey, Rongey, and Shay Westherhof all scoring in a three-hit inning for THS, helped by a Brookfield fielding error at first base.
Trenton, heading into a Thursday night home tilt (5:30) with Cameron, is now 14-7 on the season, with Brookfield, coming off of a Monday night loss to Putnam County by a score of 5-1, falling to 8-11.
Blackburn earned the victory for Trenton with six innings, scattering five runs and two runs, walking two and striking out three batters. Reese went the first 4 2/3 innings for Brookfield, and was saddled with the loss.
Other softball finals from Tuesday, October 8, 2019 were:
Mercer 14, Tri-County 6
Madison 14, Bevier 4
Atlanta 17, Bucklin/Macon County 0
Marceline 12, Knox County 2 (5 innings)
Linn County 12, Milan 2
Winston 5, Gilman City 4
Platte Valley 5, Worth County 1
Princeton 10, Pattonsburg 0
Gallatin 8, King City 6
Penney 8, East Buchanan 0
Savannah 5, Maryville 3
Maysville 5, Albany 4
Lafayette 7, Benton 3
(BASEBALL) Brashear 15, Grundy County 7
