East Webster added another Class 2A, Region 2 championship to its mantle last week as the Lady Wolverine softball team took away three district wins and had a 4-1 week overall on the way to claiming the No. 1 seed for the playoffs.
After finishing off a season sweep with Eupora to begin the week, the Lady Wolverines clinched the district with a double-header blowout with two no-hitters over J.Z. George, 19-0 and 15-0. In game one, it took just two innings to get the work in for the EWHS batters as the lineup scored 10runs in the first and another nine in the second inning.
No one had more than one hit along the way as J.Z. walked nine batters. EWHS had three RBI from Hallie Beth Reed and two from Emma McKee and Katelee Box. Whitney Winter had the only multi-base hit of the night with a double and four players were hit by pitch.
Abby Williams threw all 3.0 innings for the Lady Wolverines giving Liz Massey the night off. She threw a perfect game and struck out five of the nine batters she faced.
It was much of the same in game two as the Lady Wolverines scored 12 runs in the first inning and three in the second to another three-inning run rule. The team had nine hits as McKee and Box each went2-foe-2. McKee, Winter and Emma Jennings all drove in two runs as well with Box hitting a double and Jenning and McKee sending balls over the wall for homeruns.
Massey pitched game two and also held the visitors scoreless as she struck out eight batters and the only two to reach base were hit by pitch.
After those two no-hitters and only four hits surrendered in the three games that week, the Lady Wolverines took a step back with a loss to Calhoun City. The district was already one but EWHS saw its perfect region record blemished as the Wildcats hit a walk off two-run home run to win 7-5.
EWHS was down 5-2 in the sixth inning when it tied the game up with three runs in the top of the sixth. But the home team found a way to get the victory and overcome four errors against the Lady Wolverines.
The Lady Wolverines struggled to hit in the game with just five base knocks and two of them came from Reed who had two doubles. Williams also had a double giving EWHS three of five hits for extra bases. Massey gave up eight hits and seven runs in 6.1 innings and she walked two batters but she also struck out 10.
The loss only deterred the Lady Wolverines for one night as they were back home on Friday and back in the win column against Choctaw County. EWHS scored every inning and run-ruled the visiting Lady Chargers 13-1 in four frames to make for a early night.
The Lady Wolverines had nine hits in the game with three from McKee and two from Keely Jo McKnight. Peyton Flora had a game-high three RBI and a double while McKnight drove in two more runs. Massey threw all four innings, scattered four hits, gave up the lone run, walked two and struck out two.
As the team prepares for the playoffs next week, they were scheduled to play two home games at the start of the week against South Pontotoc and Nanih Waiya on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
