With Pattonsburg rallying following the restart of a suspended game to cut their deficit to 5-3, Riley Ridge crushed a double to quash the rally and spark Worth County to a 10-3 win Thursday to keep their faint title hopes alive. Albany, which beat Princeton, now has one more game left against North Harrison on October 2nd. Worth County has one conference game left against King City on October 2nd. Worth County must beat King City and North Harrison must beat Albany in order to hand Worth County a share of the GRC West title. Stanberry can join them with a win over Pattonsburg on October 9th. Princeton has completed the conference portion of its schedule, meaning a Worth County win over King City and an Albany loss to North Harrison could create a four-way tie for the conference title.
The game started at Pattonsburg September 18th, was suspended after three innings due to rain, and then was moved to Winston, with which Pattonsburg coops, due to a game with East Harrison being scheduled by the Panthers on the same night.
Worth County shifted its lineup, moving Addison Gray up to third and dropping Kristen Tracy to fourth and Megan Tracy to fifth. Riley Ridge moved to ninth and Audrey Runde led off. They jumped all over Pattonsburg in the first inning with their new lineup as Audrey Runde doubled to left and Kambree Briner beat out an infield hit and Runde scored all the way from second to make it 1-0. Addison Gray flied out, but Briner stole second and Kristen Tracy beat out an infield hit as Briner took third.
Kristen Tracy stole second. Megan Tracy struck out, but Worth County proceeded to score three runs with two outs in the first. Rylee Ruckman singled to left and Kristen Tracy and Kambree Briner scored to make it 3-0. Rylee Ruckman stole second and the ball got away, allowing Ruckman to take third. Keira Hardy singled her home to make it 4-0.
Audrey Runde tripled to left field with one out in the second inning and Kambree Briner flied out to score her to make it 5-0.
That was all the scoring before the rain came and washed out the rest of the game. When the game resumed in Winston Thursday, it settled into a pitching duel between Kristen Tracy and Addie Iddings, with neither team able to break through until the Pattonsburg sixth. The team was joined by Braelyn Fletchall, who could not enter the lineup Thursday, since the game had started beforehand; however, she will be eligible Saturday for the North Harrison Tournament since she was on the cheer squad for Worth County.
Finally, with one out, Jayden Goble reached second when Rylee Ruckman's throw got away. Addie Iddings crushed a line drive fair past Rayleigh Smith in right and into the corner for a triple to make it 5-1. Isabelle Burger hit a carbon copy of that hit to plate Iddings and make it 5-2. Kaitlyn Estes reached on a bad hop single to put Burger on third. Estes tried to take off stealing, which most teams normally giving away the bag in that situation. But Audrey Runde gunned her down for the second out. Emsleigh McCrary singled home Burger to make it 5-3.
But then Riley Ridge crushed a double over Rosalea Cameron's head in center with the Pattonsburg fielders drawn in to guard against the slap. Audrey Runde reached on a dropped pop fly as Ridge took third. Runde stole second. Kambree Briner singled them both home to make it 7-3. Briner stole second. Addison Gray flied out to right as Briner took third. Kristen Tracy singled home Briner to make it 8-3. Rylee Ruckman doubled to score Tracy and took third on a wild pitch. The ball got away again and Ruckman took off for home, rolling into the plate for the run to make it 10-3.
Audrey Runde got three hits, including two doubles and a triple. Rylee Ruckman got two hits, including a double. Kambree Briner and Kristen Tracy got two hits. Megan Tracy, Keira Hardy, and Riley Ridge had one; Ridge had a double. Kambree Briner, Keira Hardy, and Kristen Tracy stole two bases each. Audrey Runde, Megan Tracy, and Rylee Ruckman had 1 each. Worth County stole nine bases in the game.
For Pattonsburg, Isabelle Burger had two hits. Addie Iddings, Kaitlyn Estes, Emsleigh McCrary, and Vanessa Weigand had one hit. Addie Iddings had a triple.
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