Last week the Lady Tornadoes played in the Ripley Tournament. This week we played in the Cashion Tournament but before I talk about that, I want to talk about the craziest play ever.
The Lady Tornadoes played Bishop McGuinnes, a private school, out of Oklahoma City. The ladies were behind McGuinnes 2-0, but Brinlee Christy walked, Kaiton Vann Walked, then Aubree “Breezy” Brimmer came to the plate. She bunted, not very far, but McGuinnes was out of position and Brimmer turned on the jets and scored on a three-run walk o inside the park home run, setting o a wild celebration.
The ladies, after going 1-4 last week went 4-2-1. The week began at Strother. There was some controversy on a play where Boston Lunsford jumped over the softball to avoid an obstruction call and scored. That would have made it 3-2 in the eighth, but Lunsford was called out. There was lightning in the ninth and they called the game. Some people said it had been lightning already. I wasn’t there. I wish I had been there, except for I’m chicken about lightning.
It ended up a 2-2 tie. The ladies then went to the Cashion Tournament and played two pool-play games. We played Cashion JV and won 8-2 and in the second pool play game we beat Luther, 3-1, who was a team that beat us last year, 6-0.
Kaiton Vann pitched the Cashion JV games and Evie Ools pitched the Luther game. In the Strother game, she struck out 12.
The real tournament started the next day. First the ladies thumped Crossing Christian 8-1 then came the miracle win against the McGuinnes. The ladies struggled at the plate but Brimmer saved the day. Also Christy and Vann getting on base helped save the day.
The next day didn’t go well. We had to play host team, Cashion and we lost 2-1. The score was tied at 1-1 going into the top of the fourth. A hit by Cashion and an error by us and a ground out knocked in a run for Cashion.
The ladies didn’t get anymore hits so we lost 2-1 to Cashion.
Seven games is a lot of games for anyone in four days but I believe our coach, Leslie Robinson, might want the ladies to be mentally tougher.
Playing in horrible heat for four days can get you tired and in the last game we played, we lost to Crossing 4-1 after beating them 8-1 a day earlier.
For abut 5 or 10 minutes, it poured buckets of rain. The rain must have a ected the ump’s thinking because nobody actually knew where the behind the plate umpire strike zone was.
He nailed the Crossing team a few times also.
The other ump in the fi eld wasn't doing very good either. We only had one hit, a single by Evie Ools, who knocked in Alyssa Roe who had reached on a walk.
The ladies did throw out two runners on one play. Ools, Vann, Brinley Christy and Aubrey Brimmer were in on the play. It was so wild it was hard to keep u with. Defensive plays last week were made by Addie Ingraham, Lauren Janzen, Christie Brimmer, McKay Reed, Aubrey Allen, Vann, Roe and Ools. The players coming o the bench, Zoe Neinhaus, Macy Meyers, Kailin Rosen and Willow Mattox. Cashion beat us last year, 13-1