BROKEN ARROW - The Broken Arrow Festival this past weekend was a showcase of some of the best that 5A and 6A fastpitch softball has to o er Oklahoma this year. The Charles Page Lady Sandites took a 3-0 record and an freshly opened can of butt whip into the festival and came out the other side, improving their overall record, 7-0.
Four games. Four wins. Twenty-nine runs. Zero errors. An undefeated start to the season - in fact the best start they’ve had since 2020.
Over the weekend, Head Coach Shelli Brown's team rolled through one of the strongest collections of softball programs it will see all year, beating Union, Westmoore, Newcastle and Sequoyah-Tahlequah, and leaving with its record spotless and its confi dence considerably… louder.
This was not a weekend built on one hot pitcher, one out-of-control inning or one opponent unraveling at the wrong time.
Charles Page won with consistent power. It won with pitching. It won with speed, defense, patience and enough clutch hitting to make “festival” sound a bit boring.
The Lady Sandites opened Friday with a 13-3 dismantling of Union, and Sawyer Briscoe spent that morning fi lling up the basepaths and turning the batter’s box into her own personal highlight reel.
Briscoe drove in six runs on two hits, including a triple, a sacrifi ce bunt and an inside-the-park grand slam.
That is not a normal stat in a scorebook. That is a hostile takeover.
Charles Page struck fi rst when Briscoe laid down a sacrifi ce bunt to score a run in the opening inning. Ava Pritchard doubled home another in the second, and Kylie King followed with a home run to center fi eld.
Then came the third. Nine runs. Union was hit from every possible direction.
Briscoe tripled home a run, then scored after tagging up. King and Kam Lumsden were each hit by pitches Bailey Copeland drew a run-scoring walk.
Then Briscoe fi nished the slaughter by packing the basepaths on an inside-thepark grand slam.
Charles Page collected 10 hits, drew six walks and stole six bases. Copeland swiped three of them.
Briscoe, Carlee Brewer and Pritchard each had two hits.
King took care of the rest in the circle, allowing three hits and no runs over three and a third innings while striking out fi ve. Brewer worked in relief.
The defense committed no errors, with Bella Wilson recording fi ve chances.
There are wins. Then there are huge wins over Union that serve as a public announcement.
The Lady Sandites were just getting started.
Westmoore made the mistake of taking a 4-3 lead into the fi fth inning Friday.
Lexi Penner made sure it did not survive.
Penner had already homered to center in the second inning. With Charles Page trailing by one in the fi fth, she drove a clutch that the game and delivered a 6-4 Two One game stood on its head.
King doubled home a run in the second, and Wilson added a sacrifi ce y in the third. Westmoore answered with a three-run homer to take the lead, but Charles Page never looked rattled.
It simply waited for Penner to step back into the box.
Penner also earned the win in the circle, striking out a King came in to fi nish the job and earned the save.
Briscoe, Penner and Brewer each collected two hits.
Again, Charles Page played error-free defense.
Again, Wilson was in the middle of it, handling seven chances.
It wasn’t easy, but The Lady Sandites fi nished Friday 2-0.
Saturday did not get any easier.