AFTON — The Chuckey-Doak Lady Black Knights defeated the West Greene Lady Buffaloes 18-8 in six innings in a District 1-2A softball game on Wednesday.
Chuckey-Doak has won two straight and improves to 4-14 overall and 4-3 in the district, while West Greene drops to 5-12, 2-4.
“We struggled a couple times but we got the job done,” Chuckey-Doak coach Gene Ward said. “We got a conference win, a county win. That’s huge. That’s always big if you can beat a county team. They got us last time and we got them today.”
Chuckey-Doak led 7-6 before blowing the game open with six runs in the bottom of the fifth and five in the bottom of the sixth.
West Greene committed seven errors that led to nine unearned runs for Chuckey-Doak, while the Lady Knights played error free.
“It’s hard to win when you have errors and countless mental mistakes,” West Greene coach Clinton Haun said. “I thought we hit the ball well at times. There’s some positives to build off of, but we got to cut the errors out. It’s hard to win when you have two or three, let alone seven.”
Chuckey-Doak pushed across six runs in the bottom of the fifth inning for a 13-6 lead. Michelle Silverman reached on a fielder’s choice that scored a run, Maura Phillips, Hayleigh Taylor and Hailey Foshie had RBI singles, and Hailey Williamson had a two-run single.
“We were hitting the ball and we were making some pretty good plays and they made some not too good of plays,” Ward said. “We found some holes and it worked out for us. Yesterday, when we played Happy Valley, we had 19 hits. We had 18 today. In two games, I’ll take 37 hits.”
Taylor was 3-for-5 with five RBI, Williamson was 3-for-5 with four RBI, Phillips was 3-for-4 with two RBI, Saniah Atchison was 3-for-5, Madison Malone was 2-for-3, Foshie was 2-for-4 with two RBI and Faith Yokley was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
Taylor went the distance in the circle. In six innings, she gave up 11 hits, walked seven and struck out five. All eight West Greene runs were earned.
“(The umpire was) pretty tight behind the plate,” Ward said. “But (Taylor) got done what she needed to get done. She’s the player. You put her anywhere on the field – catcher, pitcher, outfield, shortstop – she’s going to play her heart out.”
West Greene’s Hayley Arnold went 3-for-4 with an RBI, Alexis Cutshall was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Kaylee Willett was 2-for-3 with an RBI, Aubree Everett had a hit and two RBI, and Autumn Carter, Morgan Brown and Addison Peters each had a hit.
“There were some I feel like we gotta be more aggressive with,” Haun said of his batters. “We let some that went right down the pipe go. We gotta attack those. That’s stuff that we can fix. We’ll just work on it tomorrow.”
West Greene’s Alissa Lawson also went the distance in the circle. In 5 2/3 innings, she gave up 18 hits, walked three and struck out one. Nine of Chuckey-Doak’s 18 runs were earned.
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