Northeast Nodaway's girls avoided a letdown against LeBlond and beat them even more convincingly Thursday, sending them home 18-0 in three innings. Northeast had beaten the Golden Eagles easily enough 16-3 in their first meeting, but since then, they came alive and dismantled Stewartsville/Osborn 23-6 for their first win of the year. Their bats had shown some life against NEN in the teams' first meeting; they scored three runs in the first inning of the regular season matchup between the teams before the Bluejays pulled away to a 16-3 win.
The Golden Eagles were bound and determined to build off their sudden offensive resurgence and Emersyn Lenz sent the very first pitch of the game into the gap in left center. But freshman Bristol Hicks closed the gap in a hurry and ran it down for the first out. Like the Worth County/Maysville game earlier, the balls were flying off the bats in Maysville and Erica King singled. Marah Rocha hit it hard, but right at Mylee Wilmes, who got the force at second. Hicks' catch meant that LeBlond was still off the board when Harper Wright crushed a double underneath the right center field wall instead of setting up another big inning. Haven Wright grounded out to Hadley DeFreece to end the threat.
After Hicks' catch in the top of the first meant that the game was still scoreless, Northeast never gave them another chance as Baylie Busby hit a ground rule double to start the first. The inning looked routine at first as Hadley DeFreece walked and a wild pitch put Busby on third. Lindsey Jackson's fly ball scored Busby to make it 1-0.
But that was when the dam burst. Brianna Meyer hit a double to the wall in right and a cutoff throw got away to put her on third as DeFreece scored. Blair Nelson walked and stole second. Mylee Wilmes hit a shot off the third baseman's glove to score Meyer and put runners on first and second. Makenzie Pride walked and Aubrey Fetters was plunked to force in a run. Sasha Deardorff hit a pop fly single to load the bases and score another run. Baylie Busby was plunked in the knee to force in a run. Hadley DeFreece unloaded the bases with a three run triple that emptied the bases. Lindsey Jackson doubled off the left field wall. Brianna Meyer doubled in Jackson. By the time the dust was settled, Northeast had scored 11 runs in the first inning and had put the game out of reach.
The other highlight besides Hicks' catch was the return of Hayley Yost to the lineup. She broke two of her fingers in the Stanberry Tournament trying to dive back to first and everyone thought she would be out until the start of basketball season, but she healed faster than anyone thought and was cleared to play for Thursday's game. She led off the Bluejay second and got down 0-2, but she kept battling and finally worked a walk to start the inning. Sasha Deardorff walked and Baylie Busby hit a grounder to short. LeBlond tried to go to third for the force, but Hayley Yost showed her wheels and beat it out to load the bases. Yost showed some wheels again when she came home on a wild pitch, followed by Sasha Deardorff. Hadley DeFreece doubled over the center fielder's head and scored Busby. She tried a delayed steal, but was caught in a rundown between second and third. She escaped the rundown and came home when Lindsey Jackson grounded out to make it 15-0.
Brianna Meyer reached on a dropped fly and Blair Nelson was plunked to put runners on first and second. They advanced to second and third on a wild pitch. Makenzie Pride hit a shot off the first baseman's glove that rolled away to score a run. Hayley Yost hit a high chopper to second and once again showed her wheels as she beat out the infield hit and brought in a run. Sasha Deardorff beat an infield hit to load the bases. Baylie Busby walked to force in a run to make it 18-0.
NEN worked around an error despite the heart of LeBlond's order coming up as Hadley DeFreece froze Erica King on strikes and snagged Marah Rocha's ground ball for the final two outs.
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