Khloey Sperry and Tenley Griffith went deep the first game of the HDC Tournament Saturday, Kayleece Puls went deep the second game, and Gilman City ran the table at the tournament, beating Braymer 15-0 in the first game and East Harrison 8-1 in the second, avenging a regular season loss to the Bobcats. With the win, the Hawks have won four out of their last five going into a brutal stretch of games including Putnam County, the Goerge Shurlock Tournament in Princeton, and Gallatin.
In the Braymer game, Tenley Griffith tossed a two-hitter with eight strikeouts. The Hawks bashed out 11 hits. Khloey Sperry, Avery Gregg, Tenley Griffith, and Alli Burke all had two hits while Kayleece Puls, Caitlynn Chalfant, and Emily Chalfant all had one. Avery Gregg and Khloey Sperry had doubles. Alli Burke and Kayleece Puls had triples, and Tenley Griffith and Khloey Sperry went deep. The Hawks only committed one error on defense.
After Griffith worked around a one-out single in the first inning, Khloey Sperry led off the bottom of the first with an inside-the-park home run to make it 1-0, crushing it to left field and circling the bases. Avery Gregg singled to center and stole second, taking third as the ball got away. Tenley Griffith drew a walk on a 3-2 count and stole second. Kayleece Puls sacrificed and reached on an error as Avery Gregg scored and Tenley Griffith advanced to third. Tenley Griffith stole home.
Ellie Smith walked to start the second inning. Walks lead to runs and sure enough, Khloey Sperry doubled to left to put runners on second and third. Avery Gregg doubled to left and Smith and Sperry scored, with Gregg taking third on the throw home to make it 5-0. Tenley Griffith singled to center to score Gregg to make it 6-0 and the ball got away as Griffith took second and third. Alli Burke tripled to center and scored Griffith to make it 7-0. Parker Crabtree grounded out to score Burke to make it 8-0.
With one out in the Bobcat third, Harper Hendley singled to left and the ball got away as Henley took third. Farrah Guffrey grounded to Tenley Griffith on the mound; she tried to pick off Hendley at third, but Hendley was safe and Guffrey reached on the fielder’s choice. But Griffith struck out the next two batters to get out of the inning.
Avery Gregg reached on an error to start the Hawk fourth and Tenley Griffith got an inside-the-park home run in the massive Tri-County field to make it 10-0. Alli Burke singled and then Kayleece Puls caught hold of the first pitch she saw and tripled to left to score Burke to make it 11-0. Parker Crabtree reached on an error as Puls scored to make it 12-0. Caitlynn Chalfant grounded to third. They tried to go to second for the force, but Crabtree was safe. They took second and third on a passed ball. Emily Chalfant singled to score Crabtree to make it 13-0 as Caitlynn Chalfant took third. Ellie Smith reached on an error as the last two runs scored to put Gilman City over the 15-run mark.
In the East Harrison game, Tenley Griffith set down a dangerous Bobcat lineup, holding Avarie Thompson, Sloane McClain, and Khloe Ponjavic, who had combined for 10 hits in the North Harrison game, to just one hit each. She fanned nine batters while Gilman City put together eight hits in the win and took advantage of key errors.
The Hawks had eight hits; they got three from Kayleece Puls, two from Alli Burke, and one each from Avery Gregg, Khloey Sperry, and Tenley Griffith. Khloey Sperry and Tenley Griffith had doubles while Kayleece Puls had a home run. Alli Burke and Avery Gregg stole bases. The Hawks played errorless ball in the field. For the day, they committed one after they committed several in the Pattonsburg loss.
Gilman City hit the ball hard in the first inning, but right at people. East Harrison wasted Avarie Thompson’s leadoff double as Avrey Gregg in center field and Emily Chalfant in left field made catches and Tenley Griffith struck out Aspen Zerbe to keep them off the board.
Alli Burke reached on an error to start the second inning when second baseman Addy McFall dropped her pop fly. Kayleece Puls singled to left and Burke went from first to third and was safe. Puls took second on the throw to third. Caitlyn Chalfant reached on another error as Puls and Burke scored to make it 2-0.
In the bottom of the second, Sloane McClain roped one hard, but right at Kayleece Puls at short. That meant Phoenix Ratliff’s single was harmless. Parker Crabtree made a catch at second to get the Hawks out of the inning.
Khloey Sperry started the third with a double to left. Avery Gregg reached second on an error as Sperry scored to make it 3-0. Gregg took third on a wild pitch and scored on a passed ball to make it 4-0.
East Harrison mounted a threat in the fourth when Lainey Thompson walked. She took second on a passed ball. Aspen Zerbe flied out to Gregg in center field. Sloane McClain beat out an infield hit as Thompson took third and all seemed set up for a big inning with Sloane on the basepaths. But the first of two outstanding defensive plays by the Hawks occurred when Thompson tried to come home on a passed ball and Tenley Griffith raced home to cover the throw from Sperry for the second out. McClain took second on the play. Sloane stole third and Phoenix Ratliff hit a tricky grounder between first and second. But first baseman Caitlynn Chalfant snagged it and threw to second baseman Parker Crabtree covering for the third out to keep them off the board.
With one out, Avery Gregg singled after fouling off five pitches and stole second. Tenley Griffith walked on a 3-2 count after fouling off two pitches. Walks lead to runs and sure enough, Alli Burke singled to left as Gregg scored and Griffith took third. Alli Burke took second on the throw. Kayleece Puls provided the dagger when she lined it into left field for an inside-the-park home run to make it 8-0.
Kayleece Puls made a catch at shortstop to prevent a one-run inning by the Bobcats into becoming a big inning. Taylor Whitaker tripled after fouling off four pitches and scored when Lainey Thompson singled to make it 8-1. Anything could happen with Sloane McClain coming up, but Tenley Griffith struck out Aspen Zerbe and McClain to get out of further trouble.
East Harrison had one last chance in the seventh. Phoenix Ratliff struck out after a seven-pitch at bat. Khloe Ponjavic beat out an infield hit, but Jalyn Cain grounded into a force at second. Griffith struck out Addy McFall on three pitches for the final out.
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