Wayne, W. Va. — Dani Crum drove in six runs and Taylor Blevins was outstanding in the circle as Lawrence Co. ( 22-1 ) shutout Wayne 10-0 Monday evening.
Taylor Blevins fires a pitch toward home plate on Monday against Wayne.
Taylor Blevins went four innings in the circle, allowed three hits, walked one and struck out three to get the win. Braylee Triplett pitched a perfect fifth inning striking out two Pioneers to close out the mercy rule victory.
Leadoff hitter Bree Jones crosses the plate for the first run of the game Monday.
Dani Crum had three hits including a triple, six runs batted in and scored once, Bree Jones had three hits including a double and scored three times, Abby Maynard had two hits and scored a run, Jada Patton tripled, drove in one and scored twice, Hallie Adkins singled, drove in a run and scored twice, Abby Nelson singled, drove in two, Brooklyn Ellis doubled and Jaylee Maxie scored a run.
Jada Patton and Hallie Adkins converge on a pop up against Wayne Monday #3 Taylor Blevins looks on as Adkins eventually makes the play.
Lawrence Co. 8 Pikeville 0 ( Tuesday )
Brooklyn Ellis went 4 and 1/3 in the circle, allowing two hits, walked two and struck out 8 to get the win. She also singled and drove in a run. Taylor Blevins went 2 and 2/3 to close out the win, gave up one hit and struck out two.
Dani Crum shows off her home run ball after connected for the fifth time this year.
Dani Crum had two hits including her fifth homer of the year, doubled, drove in two and scored twice, Hallie Adkins had two hits including a double, one RBI and one run scored, Jada Patton had two hits, scored once and had two RBIs, Abby Maynard doubled, one RBI and scored once, Bree Jones doubled and scored a run, Addalyn Woods drove in a run and Ella Smith scored a run.
Lawrence Co. will be in action tonight at Knott Co. Central and Thursday at Shelby Valley.
Lawrence Co. Head Coach Justin Adkins
COACH’S COMMENTS
“… Really good game for us, second time we have played them this year and they were good enough to come to us early in the year and we both had teams cancel on us so we put this game together and it was only our second game in week. They have a really good freshman infield and the future is bright for this program. A lot of Duster girls and I think had five that played on Hallie’s travel team as well. I know their post-season starts soon so good luck to them the rest of the way.”
“… We have been working on taking that pitch the other way and it was great to see some balls get driven into the alley and get to the fence. If we stay on it and drive it to right center we are tough to beat. When we try and pull everything that’s when we don’t hit it as hard. Let it travel and stay through the softball.”
“… Taylor Blevins was really good tonight and we need her going forward. Had one tough outing, the moment got big but she has pitched in big moments before and I’m not scared to put her right back out there in the same situation next time. Good thing was we got down early but never quit and fought our way right back into game and the balls bounces this way or play here or there we could have won. Great experience for our girls for the first time being there and we have to learn to win those type of games.”
