Worth County and NEN played a wild 14 and under game Thursday, but Kinley Fletchall took over the pitching in the third inning and shut them down as the Tigers were able to push two runs across in the third for a 7-6 win.
Rylee Scadden beat out a bunt hit to start the Bluejays off in the first. Tiger pitcher Bella Blankenship almost got out of the inning with a pair of strikeouts, but a dropped fly ball allowed Scadden to score and make it 1-0.
Renae Gladstone beat out a scratch hit to start the Tiger first. Kinley Fletchall beat out a bad hop for a scratch hit and Bella Blankenship walked to load the bases. Kennedy Murphy would have beaten out a slow roller, but the Bluejays threw it away to let two Tiger runs across to make it 2-1.
Bristol Hicks singled to left to start off the Bluejays. She stole second and Addie Thummel walked. Sadie Hall reached second on an error as two Bluejays scored to give them a 3-2 lead. Rylee Scadden beat out her second infield hit of the game and Scadden and Hall took second and third on a wild pitch. Hall scored on a wild pitch as Scadden took third. Piper Gray walked and then Scadden scored on a wild pitch. Kiley Yost showed that she had really improved her speed from last year and beat out an infield hit to put runners on first and second. Paisley Norman advanced them to third with a groundout and then a third run scored on a wild pitch as Piper Gray came home to put the Bluejays up 6-2.
The first two Tigers struck out, but Renae Gladstone hit a fly ball that dropped in for a base hit and she stretched a single into a double, showing the same daredevil baserunning that her older sister, Anna Gladstone, and her namesake, Renae Miller, showed 25 years ago. Kinley Fletchall reached on a scratch hit to score Gladstone and then Brooklyn Smith crushed one so hard into right that nobody could catch up to it before she had circled the bases for a two run home run to cut the Tiger deficit to 6-5.
Kinley Fletchall pitched in the third inning and struck out three Bluejays to restore order before a pair of Bluejay errors and a double by Fletchall put the Tigers up 7-6 going into the fourth. Fletchall held the fort for another inning, getting two more strikeouts to preserve the lead.
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