Lady Jackets win two

 

Jeff Davis High’s softball team won a pair of games Monday to up their record to 22-3.

The 8-0 win over 3-19 Fitzgerald came as no surprise. But before that game, the Lady Jackets raised some eyebrows with an easy, 8-1 win over Class 4A Wayne County. Wayne came into the game with a 17-7 record and an 8-0 mark in Region 3-AAAA so the game was expected to be a close one.

In a battle of Yellow Jackets, JD scored a single run in the bottom of the first inning on an Ava Bohannon RBI single.

After Carrie Ellen Arnold struck out the side in the second, Jeff Davis added three more runs. Jaci Underwood’s sacrifice fly added one run and Claire Stinson ripped a 2-run homer.

In the third, Ella Wood singled, went to second on a Cori Mims ground out and scored on a 2-base error.

After Wayne got an unearned run in the fourth, JD got the run back in the fifth on a Mims RBI single.

Jeff Davis got two more runs in the sixth as Jenna Miles and Jaci Underwood led off the inning with singles. Miles scored on a Bohannon ground out and Underwood scored on an Arnold single.

Wayne threatened to score in the final inning as they loaded the bases with two outs. The next batter hit a soft liner over third base and Miles made a diving catch from her shortstop position to end the game.

Stinson’s 2-run homer was the only extra base hit for Jeff Davis. She also had a single. Miles, Arnold and Ella Wood all had a pair of singles. Bohannon had a single and two RBI, Underwood and Mims both had a single and an RBI, and Bentlee Metts singled.

Arnold was the winning pitcher. She gave up an unearned run on four hits, walked two and struck out 10.

Mims started on the mound for the Lady Jackets against Fitzgerald and threw a 3-hit shutout, yielding three harmless singles. She did not issue a free pass and struck out eight.

Jeff Davis took a 1-0 lead in the first on a Kira Buford RBI ground out.

In the second, Mims was hit by a pitch, went to third on a Metts single, and scored on a passed ball. Miles’ RBI single made it 3-0. Underwood had a run-scoring ground out, pushing Miles to third and Miles scored on a passed ball to make it 5-0.

Fitzgerald loaded the bases with two out in the fourth but Mims got the final out on a grounder to the mound.

The Lady Jackets ended the game by the run rule in the bottom of the fifth with three runs. Buford singled, Alara McCall was hit by a pitch, and Jazmine Villasenor drove in Buford with a single. Metts singled to load the bases and Laisha Hernandez walked in a run to make it 7-0. Miles followed with a run-scoring single to end the game.

Miles had two singles and two RBI, Metts had a pair of singles, Buford and Villasenor both had a single and an RBI, Mims and Wood singled, and Hernandez added an RBI walk.

Score by innings:

WCHS 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1

JDHS 1 3 1 0 1 2 x -8

FHS 0 0 0 0 0 -0

JDHS 1 4 0 0 3 -8