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SOFTBALL: Rice, DHS shut out Pinckneyville

Posted April 09, 2012 11:00 pm

Patricia Ferrari

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[DuQuoin's Cassidy Rice pitched another fantastic softball game on Monday evening against Perry County rival, Pinckneyville at Pinckneyville. Her teammates pounded out ten hits to back her up, and DuQuoin took the conference victory 5-0. DuQuoin is now 18-0 overall, and 4-0 in the Conference race. Pinckneyville is 7-6 overall, and 0-4 in the Conference.

The Indians scored three runs in the third inning, and two runs in the seventh to seal the victory. In the third inning, Jessica Hirsch led off with a double; Aubrey Davis followed with a double and an RBI. Kelsey Robinson had a sacrifice fly to score Davis. Rice had a double, Alexis Kohrs walked, and Hadley Marek had a single to score the courtesy runner, Abby Myers. In the seventh inning, Magen Edwards reached first on a fielder's choice, and then, Amanda Williams hit a home run for two more runs. The Indians had other opportunities to score, but stranded 13 runners on base during the game. Pinckneyville had an opportunity to score in the fifth inning, and left the bases loaded.

Rice was the winning pitcher moving her record to 9-0. Rice went all seven innings allowing no runs, 4 hits, had 7 strikeouts, one walk, one hit batter, and two wild pitches. Pinckneyville's Kayla Harris was the losing pitcher going all seven innings, allowing 5 runs (4 earned), 10 hits, had six walks, six strikeouts, and 4 wild pitches.

On defense, Pinckneyville had an error at shortstop, a dropped foul fly ball, and a dropped third strike. DuQuoin had 3 errors; all three errors were uncharacteristic with two errors at third base, and one in left field.

DuQuoin tallied ten hits in the contest. Hirsch was 2-5, including a double, and had a stolen base; Davis was 1-4 with a double, an RBI, and a stolen base; Robinson was 0-4, but had an RBI on a sacrifice fly, a stolen base, and a walk; Rice was 2-2 including a double, and two walks; Myers had three stolen bases, and scored a run; Kohrs was 0-3 with a walk; Marek was 1-4; Edwards was 1-3 with a walk; Willliams was 1-4 with a Home Run and 2 RBI; Katrina Whitley was 2-4. Kate Toler also saw action for the Indians, and Cassidy Hill was the flex on defense. Every DuQuoin batter contributed some how at the plate, and had productive at bats.

DuQuoin Coach Jason James was happy about the win. "I thought Cassidy Rice pitched outstanding today. We did a good job of keeping their slap hitters off the bases. I am proud of Amanda Williams hitting that home run. It gave us a little bit of breathing room. We have to quit leaving runners on base, and drive them in. We got ourselves built up for Nashville tomorrow." Coach James is assisted by Jacob Emling and Lonnie James.

DuQuoin will be at home with Nashville on Tuesday. This is a very important game in the conference race for DuQuoin.

Pinckneyville had four hits in the game. Dani Schoenbacher was 2-3 with a walk; Melia Bathon was 1-3; Shersty Stanton was 1-3. The Panthers stranded ten runners on base during the game, and could not push a run across.

Pinckneyville Coach Mike Cheek commented, "Our defense played fairly well today. I told the players that if we had played that way the last 5-6 games, we would have won them. I cannot complain about our pitching or our defense. Our hitting was not great, but Cassidy Rice pitched well for DuQuoin." Coach Cheek is assisted by Adrienne Wilson and Bryant Hale.

DuQuoin plays Nashville at home on Tuesday, and Anna-Jonesboro at home on Friday.

Pinckneyville is at Sparta on Tuesday and at Carterville on Thursday before hosting Pleasant Plains Friday afternoon.

<u>DHS wins JV contest</u>

The DuQuoin Jr. Varsity played five innings on Monday evening against Pinckneyville and came out a victor 21-0. The DuQuoin JV are now 5-0 on the season.

Marisa Ferguson was the winning pitcher for DuQuoin going all 5 innings, allowing 0 runs on 1 hit, and had one walk.

DuQuoin hitting was as follows: Amanda Atteberry was 4-5, including a triple, and 3 RBI; Toler was 1-4, with a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning, and 2 RBI; Hailey Stewart was 2-5 with 2 RBI; Ferguson was 3-5 with 4 RBI; Myers was 1-5 with an RBI; Emily Asbury was 2-5 with an RBI; Bailie Caldwell was 3-4, including a triple, and an RBI; Chelsea Huff was 3-4 with a double, and 3 RBI; Amber Williams was 2-4 with an RBI.

JV Coach Jacob Emling commented, "We came ready to play today, and swung the bats very well. We were hitting the ball hard all game. Our defense was outstanding, as we made no errors behind a great performance on the rubber from Marisa Ferguson. These girls have really stepped up over the past couple of weeks, and are playing well."

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