Northeast Nodaway's junior high saw pitchers Avah Eckley and Adie Thummel combine on a no hitter against Tri-County Saturday in an 11-3 win at the East Harrison Tournament in Ridgeway. Eckley threw strikes and fanned seven in three innings of work. The Bluejays broke open the game in their half of the third, scoring six in the inning, allowing them to use Thummel, only a sixth grader who pitched at that level for the first time ever, to finish the game. She walked in three runs, but she struck out two and shortstop Blair Nelson tagged out a runner in the field.
Unfortunately, they ran into a buzzsaw in Gilman City. The Hawks, who have a coop with Pattonsburg this year, got a monster triple from Tenley Griffith, and followed it up with an even bigger blast, a shot from Khloey Sperry which landed 240 feet away from home plate; it would have left almost any other yard besides the Ridgeway park, which is one of the few left which doesn't have a 200 foot home run fence. That rattled the Bluejays, who gave up eight runs in the first inning.
Brianna Meyer came on the mound to stop the bleeding, and a triple from Hayley Yost seemed to wake the Bluejays out of their offensive slumber even though they didn't score that inning. They finally got four runs in the third behind hits from Ashlyn Kennard and a scratch hit from Yost, but they fell short 11-4 in the championship finale.
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