Hadley DeFreece fanned 13 Stewartsville/Osborn batters and pitched a perfect game as Northeast Nodaway won 10-0 Thursday. It was Northeast Nodaway's first no-hitter since 2009, when Taylor Dougan threw a no-hitter at Union Star.
DeFreece struck out the first ten Wildcard batters she faced. The 11th batter, Adelynne Jackson, tried to bunt her way her on in the fourth, but popped out to Hadley. She proceeded to strike out the next three. With Northeast up 10-0 and the run rule in effect, the last out is sometimes the hardest to get and Maddison Lundy hit a tricky pop fly down the first base line. DeFreece and Lundy tangled up, but DeFreece was able to snag the pop fly for the third out, and the Bluejays had pulled off their fifth win of the year.
After winning their first three, the Bluejays dropped their next three. But they pulled off a 2-1 win over DeKalb, in which Jill Boswell hit a two run home run in the first inning, and the Bluejays made it stand up until the seventh. The Tigers tagged them with a run in the last inning, but the Bluejays got the final three outs for their first win over DeKalb in many years. The Tigers had previously taken Platte Valley to extra innings.
There was little suspense about the outcome of the game after Northeast got seven runs in the first. DeFreece walked, Bailey Busby got hit, and Meredith Adwell singled in DeFreece and went to second on the unsuccessful throw home as Busby took third. Jill Boswell beat out an infield hit to short as Adwell took third and Busby scored. Boswell stole second and Lindsey Jackson grounded out to score Adwell as Boswell took third. Lauren McIntyre was hit by a pitch and stole second. Jaden Atkins singled to left to score Boswell and put McIntyre on third. Kiersten Morrow popped out, but Ruby Wilmes beat out a slow roller between pitcher and shortstop to load the bases. Hadley DeFreece beat out an infield hit as McIntyre scored. That was the third Bluejay scratch hit of the inning. Bailey Busby singled in two to make it 7-0.
Stewartsville settled down in the second and retired the Bluejays in order in that inning, and Northeast ran their way out of a big inning in the third when Hadley DeFreece hit a pop fly with the bases loaded; Morrow, who was on second, tangled up with the shortstop, and Morrow was out on the interference and DeFreece was out since the Infield Fly Rule applied for the double play.
But with DeFreece blowing her fastballs by everybody, that did not alter the momentum of the game, and the Bluejays put the game away in the fourth. Meredith Adwell beat out a slow roller between third and short that took a bad hop for a scratch hit. Jill Boswell flied out, but Lindsey Jackson walked. Lauren McIntyre grounded out to advance them and Jaden Atkins singled to right center to score both runs to make it 9-0. Morrow walked, and they advanced to second and third on a wild pitch. Ruby Wilmes walked and Hadley DeFreece hit a shot in the hole that the shortstop knocked down, but had no play as the 10th run crossed the plate.
The junior high squad rallied twice but fell short 6-5 in the first game. Pitcher Ella Eckley turned a 1-3-2 double play when, with the bases loaded in the second. she threw to first to Blair Nelson, who threw home to catcher Hayley Yost, who put the tag on the second runner to complete the double play. Yost also added a single and a stolen base for the Bluejays.
The JV won 13-2 as Lindsey Jackson settled down after a rough first inning to get the win. Makenzie Pride crushed a double close to the wall in left. Lauren McIntyre, Ruby Wilmes, Lily Burns, Jaden Atkins, Sasha Deardorff, Lindsey Jackson, and Jill Boswell all had singles. There were several good catches in the field; Lindsey Jackson on the mound and Kierstyn Morrow at second both had catches. Bailey Busby had two catches at shortstop, one of which she turned into a double play.
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