Nanih Waiya’s fast-pitch softball team saw action in just one game leading up to the Easter break last week. But the Lady Warriors made it a good one.
Nanih Waiya scored three times in the bottom of the seventh inning to knock off visiting Ethel — rallying for a big 5-4 division win over the Lady Tigers.
The win was the fifth in the last seven games for Nanih Waiya after an 0-5 start and lifted the Lady Warriors to 5-7 on the season.
This week, the squad was slated to go to Noxapater on Tuesday before visiting Ray Brooks on Thursday.
Next week, the Lady Warriors are slated to go to French Camp Academy on Tuesday (April 10) and then visit Louisville on Friday (April 13).
Last Monday night at home, the Lady Warriors had just six base hits but made the most of them.
Hope Thames singled, doubled and scored twice and Morgan Mills singled, tripled, scored and had one RBI.
Dallyn Nance singled and scored; Abby Lynch singled and drove in a run; and Hanna Higginbotham scored. Nance, Thames and Kaylee Gregory all had two stolen bases.
Mills was the winning pitcher, tossing one scoreless inning in relief and striking out two. Nance threw six innings and struck out seven, allowing three earned runs.
Ethel scored once in the first and third innings, then twice in the top of the fourth to build a 4-0 lead.
Nanih Waiya got on the board with a run in the bottom of the fourth and made it 4-2 with another run in the fifth.
In the seventh, Thames was hit by a pitch with one out to start the rally.
Higginbotham reached on an error that plated Thames to trim the lead to 4-3, then Mills tripled to score Higginbotham and make it a tie ballgame.
Ethel intentionally walked the next two hitters to load the bases and set up a force, but Lynch’s sacrifice plated Mills from third for the walk-off win.
