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SOFTBALL ROUNDUP (4-22)
SOFTBALL ROUNDUP (4-22)
COLUMBIA FALLS 2 WHITEFISH 0 Walter, Wildkats get defensive Posted: Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 - 11:43:15 pm MDT By GREG SCHINDLER/The Daily Inter Lake
“We played good defense, and that’s what it takes to hold these guys down,” Columbia Falls coach Dave Kehr said. “They’re gonna hit, but we had a lot of good plays out there.” Whitefish had just one defensive miscue, and senior southpaw Torey Ost tallied seven strikeouts to keep the Bulldogs in striking distance prior to their late comeback attempt. Columbia Falls took the lead when junior catcher Amber James grounded to second in the first inning, scoring junior third baseman Tia Yaeger, who reached with a single. Pitching and defense dominated the next three innings, but the Wildkats added a wild insurance run in the fifth. With the bases loaded and one out, James hit a short pop fly that was dropped. James was out due to the infield fly rule, but junior center fielder Cedar Smith scampered home from third on the play before Whitefish doubled-up Yaeger at third to end the inning. “A little more run support would have been a little nicer,” Kehr said. “I didn’t think the one run would hold up. I thought maybe we could hold them, but I didn’t think one run would do it.” The Bulldogs made most of their offensive noise in the seventh inning. Junior left fielder Taylor Ybarra-Brunty led off with an infield hit, and junior second baseman Kristi Whisler followed with a bunt single. FauntLeRoy smashed a one-out single, but Ybarra-Brunty was cut down at home before Ost hit a towering fly out to left to end the game. “We had them going there a little bit at the end, and I guess I should have been thinking about playing some small ball all along — moving runners around with bunts and stuff like that to make them work a little bit more,” Whitefish coach David Dachs said. FauntLeRoy, Ybarra-Brunty and sophomore shortstop Hailey Mortensen had two singles apiece for Whitefish. The Wildkats had no multi-hit efforts, but Milliard reached base four times via three walks and a hit batsman. The third-place Wildkats improved to 4-2 in conference play and 6-2 overall, while the fourth-place Bulldogs dropped to 3-3 and 3-5 despite Ost allowing just five singles. “You can’t win many games when you don’t score any runs,” Dachs joked. “To keep them to two — that’s about all I can ask. (Ost) just did a great job, and (senior catcher Desiree Clarke) did a good job of calling the pitches, too.” Clarke squeezed a foul tip to preserve a strikeout in the fourth, and sophomore first baseman Shannon Holmes dug a throw from the dirt to end the inning. Junior right fielder Nicole Schelling made a running catch to keep speedy Wildkats second baseman Renae Nelson off the basepaths in the seventh. “One error in the game, that’s not bad,” Dachs said. “It was definitely a good defensive effort.” Ost needed just six pitches to breeze through the top of the second inning, and Walter responded with a four-pitch bottom of the frame. Only two Bulldogs worked three-ball counts against Walter. “She pitched very well tonight,” Kehr said. “She went the seven, pitched very well, kept them off balance a little bit. “Location is getting better and better all the time for her. She’s doing a nice job for us.” Columbia Falls 100 010 0 — 2 5 0 Whitefish 000 000 0 — 0 8 1 Drew Walter and Amber James. Torey Ost and Desiree Clarke. W — Walter. L — Ost. COLUMBIA FALLS (6-2, 4-2) — Renae Nelson 0-4, Tia Yaeger 1-3, Amanda Milliard 0-0, James 1-4, Walter 1-2, Lindsay Nelson 1-3, Cassidee Skiles 0-3, Morgan Rowe 0-3, Cedar Smith 1-3. WHITEFISH (3-5, 3-3) — Adele FauntLeRoy 2-4, T. Ost 0-4, Clarke 0-3, Shannon Holmes 0-3, Hailey Mortensen 2-3, Devyn Ost 0-2, Taylor Ybarra-Brunty 2-3, Kristi Whisler 1-3, Camillie Williams 1-2, Shelbi Long 0-1. RBIs — CF 1 (James), WF 0. SB — CF 2 (Tessa Cowan, James), WF 0. SAC — CF 0, WF 0.
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