Softball recap: Aledo bats on fire in sweep, Carroll finishes off Weatherford, Keller and Richland force Game 3
Aledo 12, Lake Dallas 0
Aledo 16, Lake Dallas 3
The Ladycats hit seven home runs in nine innings at the plate to down the Falcons in back-to-back run-rule games and become bi-district champs on Friday in Weatherford.
Aledo advances to the 5A area round and improves to 21-4 on the season. It will face Burleson Centennial, which swept its series with FW South Hills.
In Game 1, junior shortstop Macy Graf (Mississippi State) ripped a pitch to right field and sprinted around the bases for an inside the park home run. She would go 4 for 4 with a double and two home runs, one out of the ball park in the bottom of the fifth that made it 9-0.
After Graf’s lead-off run, Claire Byars singled to extend Aledo’s lead to 2-0. Madysen Boutwell (A&M Kingsville) hit her first of two homers in the game in the third for a 3-0 lead. She added a second one, a three-run homer in the fourth inning to push the margin to 7-0.
Boutwell hit a long foul ball in her final at bat in the fifth then was intentionally walked for Texas Ray, who ended the game with a three-run home run to deep left field.
Kayleigh Smith got the win going five innings with one hit allowed and three strikeouts.
The Aledo bats didn’t cool off in Game 2 with Byars going deep twice. Her first was a solo shot to left field that cut the Lake Dallas lead to 2-1 in the first inning. LD got a two-run homer from Bella DiDonato to start the game.
Caitlin Beaty singled in Marissa Powell to tie it.
Powell sparked a six-run second inning for the Ladycats with a two-run double to left field scoring Audrey Pearce and Graf then Aledo got two more when LD committed an error on a Ray hit to third.
Graf tripled in Pearce for a 9-2 advantage and Byars added her second bomb over the center field wall. The Ladycats led 13-2 after three innings. The final three runs came in the fourth from Ray’s RBI single and a two-run double by Beaty. Nathalie Touchet got the win going five innings with seven strikeouts.
Southlake Carroll 15, Weatherford 9
The Dragons used a 10-run second inning to eliminate the Kangaroos in Game 2 of their 6A bi-district series on Friday in Weatherford. SLC won Game 1, 5-4 in eight innings.
Carroll scored 10 runs on 10 hits and brought up 15 batters during the second inning to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 10-1 lead. Hannah Reed scored Kaylee Embrey on a ground out in the first to give Weatherford a 1-0 edge.
After Carroll got one out in the second, the Dragons put together four straight singles with Sydney Stagg and Cameron Timmons bringing home runs for a 2-1 lead. Mackenzie Rae extended the margin to 7-1 on a grand slam to left center, the senior’s first career home run. It was Carroll’s first home run all season. Anna Hunt and Bella Jones followed with back-to-back singles and two batters later, Hunt scored on Brooke Berwick’s RBI double.
Morgan Cashon beat out a throw from shortstop for an infield single to make it 10-1.
The Kangroos scored four in the fourth with RBI singles from Addison Tidwell and Grace Thompson. Tidwell scored on a wild pitch and Peyton Contreras scored on a fielder’s choice.
Rae and Tidwell traded RBIs in the fifth as the Dragons led 12-6. Timmons’ RBI double in the sixth gave Carroll a 13-6 lead. Rae led off the seventh with her second homer and Abby Guy added a solo blast three batters later.
Bella Garcia hit a two-run home run and Landry Fonseca’s RBI single was the final score for the Roos.
Carroll advances to play Midland in the area round.
Richland 12, Brewer 2
Landri McKittrick doubled twice and drove in two runs and Kylie Valencia registered three RBI as the Royals beat the Bears in six innings to tie their 5A bi-district series Friday at Lake Dallas.
Game 3 will be at Lake Dallas at 2 p.m. Saturday. Brewer won Game 1, 4-3.
RBI singles from McKittrick and Valencia sparked a four-run bottom of the first for the Royals. They grew the lead to 6-1 in the second with an RBI double to center from McKittrick.
Valencia’s two-run double made it 11-2 in the sixth and she scored the game-ending run on a wild pitch.
Keller 11, Euless Trinity 1
Dori Brown led off the sixth inning with a solo homer and Ashley Breeding doubled and scored on a Jorey Hood sac-fly as the Indians run-ruled the Trojans in Game 2 of their 6A bi-district series Friday at Brewer HS.
Game 3 will be Saturday at noon at Justin Northwest HS. Trinity won Game 1, 7-4.
Lindsey Smith and Brown both went 3 for 3. Brown scored three times. Smith homered and drove in three runs. Tegan Galipeau and Marissa Espinoza added two RBI each and Breeding went 5 for 5.
Mel Weingast allowed four hits and struck out 14.
Boswell 5, Byron Nelson 0 (Boswell sweeps)
Colleyville Heritage 7, Granbury 0 (Heritage sweeps)
Northwest 11, Azle 1 (Northwest wins 2-1)
This story was originally published April 30, 2021 at 11:10 PM.
