Lady Indians drop season opener to Blue Lions
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Stephen Forsha-sforsha@gmail.com
WASHINGTON C.H. - The Hillsboro Lady Indians season started off on the wrong side of the scoreboard Wednesday evening, as errors and off-balanced hitting hurt the Lady Indians' chances of taking home a season-opening victory.
After a big two-out rally by the Washington Lady Blue Lions in the third inning, Hillsboro was unable to answer as they fell in the South Central Ohio League opener 10-0 in five innings at Washington Senior High School.
Kayla Rosselott pitched well for the Lady Indians as she finished with three strikeouts in five innings. Though Washington scored 10 runs, none of the runs were earned. Rosselott also allowed four hits and three walks.
"Kayla did a very good job being the first game of the season," Hillsboro head coach Krista George said. "This was our the third time on the field so far, and she pitched a very good game."
From the plate HHS had two hits, both of which came in the second inning off the bats of Mallori Ferguson and Jennifer Williams. Also at the plate, Kaelee Sexton forced a walk in the third inning.
"We didn't hit well," George said. "We are much better hitters than that."
Hillsboro committed six errors of the night in the season and SCOL opener.
As for the Lady Blue Lions, they went six up, six down in the first two innings. In fact, in the bottom of the third, they were down to their final out when things started to roll for the home squad.
Deposh and Haynes started the two-out rally with consecutive singles, followed with an infield error by the Lady Indians allowing Plumlee to reach first base. Daniels followed with a base hit and Riley doubled to keep the inning alive. Stevenson then reached first on another infield error by HHS.
Lentz, Deposh and Haynes all forced walks in the six-run inning. Scoring for Washington were: Riley, Stevenson, Plumlee, Daniels, Deposh and Hayes.
"The one inning, we had a couple errors and it hurt us," George said. "We had them down to two outs and I thought we were going to get out of the inning. After that, we dropped our heads."
In the fifth inning, Washington added four runs to complete the game as Whiteman, Deposh, Hayes and Shears all crossed home plate for the run-rule win.
HHS will play again Thursday as they will host the Clinton-Massie Lady Falcons in SCOL play at 5 p.m.
BOX SCORE
SCORE BY INNINGS
HHS - 000 00x x - 0 2 6
WSHS - 0064x x - 10 4 0
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