Solid defense behind star pitcher Sarah Baldwin and another later-innings emergence of some offense once more carried the Chillicothe High School softball Lady Hornets to victory in their 2010 home opener yesterday.
Addie Stottlemyre singled leading off the bottom of the fifth inning and scored on a wild throw after Erin Gilliland’s sacrifice bunt to snap a scoreless deadlock as the Lady Hornets claimed a 3-0 win over the Smith-Cotton High School Lady Tigers from Sedalia.
Although Chillicothe would get a couple of insurance runs in the sixth on a pair of errors, Kelsey Hicks’ second single of the day, and a sacrifice fly by Bailey Keith, it would need only one to win as Baldwin continued to fire blanks.
The junior righthander yielded a season-high four hits, but got her second shutout and has yet to allow an earned run.
She stranded two runners in the top of the first innings after giving up a pair of singles and worked around a leadoff double by Katie Hardy, who had two of Sedalia’s four hits, in the sixth.
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Solid defense behind star pitcher Sarah Baldwin and another later-innings emergence of some offense once more carried the Chillicothe High School softball Lady Hornets to victory in their 2010 home opener yesterday.
Addie Stottlemyre singled leading off the bottom of the fifth inning and scored on a wild throw after Erin Gilliland’s sacrifice bunt to snap a scoreless deadlock as the Lady Hornets claimed a 3-0 win over the Smith-Cotton High School Lady Tigers from Sedalia.
Although Chillicothe would get a couple of insurance runs in the sixth on a pair of errors, Kelsey Hicks’ second single of the day, and a sacrifice fly by Bailey Keith, it would need only one to win as Baldwin continued to fire blanks.
The junior righthander yielded a season-high four hits, but got her second shutout and has yet to allow an earned run.
She stranded two runners in the top of the first innings after giving up a pair of singles and worked around a leadoff double by Katie Hardy, who had two of Sedalia’s four hits, in the sixth.
