Staff report
ANNA — Fort Loramie and Anna battled to a stalemate after seven innings, but the Lady Redskins erupted for five runs in the top of the eighth to beat the Lady Rockets 12-8 in County softball at Anna Tuesday night.
Fort Loramie is now 8-7 and Anna 6-7.
Loramie had to scramble to send the game to overtime. Anna trailed 5-3 after four and a half innings, but got four in the bottom of the fifth to take a 7-5 lead.
Loramie tied it in the top of the seventh, however, when Hillary Benanzer dropped a ball just in front of the left fielder with the bases loaded to drive in two runs and tie the game up.
Aleah Frilling came on in relief in the sixth and got through the bottom of the seventh despite the first batter reaching on an error. Then in the top of the eighth, she led off with a solo home run. It was only her second place appearance as a varsity player and her first varsity hit.
Loramie rode that momentum to a five-run inning and Anna answered with only one run in the bottom of the eighth.
The Lady Redskins got three hits apiece from Abby Holthaus and Julie May, and two hits from Kristin Raterman and Kara Magoteaux.
May had two doubles and Ratermann, Benanzer, Holthaus and Jess Boerger all had one double.
For Anna, Olivia Place had three hits with a double, Ashley Dentinger singled and doubled, Chloe Spence doubled and Alexis Phillips had two hits.
The linescore:
FL`220 100 25`12`13`3
Anna`120 040 01`8`12`8
WP: Koppin; LP: Place
Records: Loramie 8-7, Anna 6-7.
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Troy 11, Sidney 1
TROY — For the second night in a row, Sidney was run-ruled by Troy in Greater Western Ohio Conference North softball action Tuesday, 11-1.
Sidney falls to 3-5 in the North and 8-8 overall. Troy is 7-1 in the North and tied for the top spot with Piqua. The Lady Trojans are 12-7 overall.
Morgan Carey had a triple for Sidney.
The linescore:
Sid.`000 010`1`5`6
Troy`026 201`11`8`0
WP: Henson; LP: Shell
Records: Sidney 8-8, Troy 12-7.
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Riverside 4, Lehman 0
DEGRAFF — Riverside’s Lauryn Davis shut out Lehman on just two hits in a Northwest Central Conference game Tuesday at Riverside.
The win put the Lady Pirates at 8-0 in the NWCC and 15-1 overall. Lehman is 4-4 and 7-5.
Davis struck out eight and walked just one in pitching the Lady Pirates past Lehman.
Kristin Davidson led Riverside’s six-hit attack with two hits, and Aubrey Stillings added a double.
The linescore:
Leh.`000 000 0`0`2`1
Riv.`001 210 0`4`6`1
WP: L. Davis; LP: Wick
Records: Riverside 15-1, Lehman 7-5.
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JC 25, Botkins 5
JACKSON CENTER — Jackson Center scored nine times in the second and seven times in the third in roughing up Botkins 25-8 in County play Tuesday.
For Jackson, which is 3-7, Connor Pipke had two singles and a triple, Abby Meyer two singles and Cassie Meyer a double.
For Botkins, Kassidy Esser singled and doubled and Mikayla Place had two singles.
The linescore:
Bot.`100 31`5`6
JC`597 4x`25`8
WP: Rogers; LP: Esser
Records: JC 3-7.
