May 25
Cards – 10, Little Falls – 0
[Game day was gray, gloomy, and windy – so what else is new? Captains, coaches, and umpires met at home plate in spite of it all. The section’s No. 2-seeded Cardinals were hosting the 7th-seeded Little Falls Flyers (Flyers, because that’s where Charles Lindbergh was from, don’cha know).]
[Sophomore Kendra Hardy (13) took the mound (well, flat) for the Cards.]
[Junior Calley Richardson (15) patrols centerfield with aplomb.]
[Leading off for the Cards, senior shortstop Emma Ziegler (4) . . . ]
[Zig attempted to bunt for a hit but they got her by a whisker (or its equivalent).]
[At No. 2, junior 2nd baseman Allison O’Kane (9) . . . ]
[Who promptly . . . ]
[Lined a single to right – yeah, I know, the chain link won the focus battle here.]
[Batting 3rd, senior 1st baseman Ellie Ronning (12) . . . ]
[Who also singled. We always say she will keep her batting average hovering around .600 as long as she doesn’t go into any 2-for-4 slumps.]
[Batting cleanup, the aforementioned Calley who just got under one a bit.]
[And then Kendra looking to help her own cause.]
[Nope, don’t care for that one.]
[Or that one either!]
[Whoa, what was that remark about whiskers?]
. .
[We didn’t score in the first, but in the 2nd junior Taylor Breitkreutz, who I have reason to suspect was playing righfield . . . ]
[Scorched, as all good hockey defenseman do, as single to left.]
[Junior catcher Jamie Lanoue (18) butted Taylor to 2nd (I think?) and was safe herself.]
[Sophomore leftfielder Sydney Christenson (2) kept the ball rolling (so to speak).]
[And Taylor scored the 1st run . . . ]
[Followed in by Jamie . . . ]
[Hey, I got a sequence . . . ]
[That stayed in focus!]
[Woo-woo!]
[I must have missed some at bats here, because here’s Calley again? Those quick naps are refreshing.]
[And senior 3rd baseman McKenzie Revering (14), who I some how missed the first time through the lineup . . . ]
[Rev had two hits for the day.]
[Back to Kendra . . . ]
[Power to the opposite field.]
[This must be Taylor again, who also had two hits on the day . . . ]
[And then she (I’m just going by the white helmet) scored again, as the hits kept coming.]
[As Zig steps to the plate.]
[There’s contact . . . ]
[I’m no longer sure where we are now in the grand scheme of things, but the Cards scored 5 runs in the 2nd and 3 runs in the 3rd making the outcome only dependent on the final score.]
[Allison ducks under one but she, like her fellow hockey defensemen Rev and Taylor, also had two hits on the day.]
[And this may be hit No. 2. as she drives it toward right . . . ]
[Follow through running.]
[Ms. Ronning ended the day 3 – 4, as the shortstop snared her liner in her final at bat. This one looks like her double to right center.]
[And thar she goes!]
[Another run, though lost in the aura of the chain link.]
[That’s better – is it Allison?]
[It is here, I believe scoring on Ellie’s double.]
[Then Calley . . . ]
[Must have fouled one . . . ]
[Then this looks like . . . ]
[Her double . . . ]
[To left.]
[And Taylor . . . ]
[Rev’s on 2nd . . . ]
[Knock me in!]
[Jamie? Is that you?]
[A lot of fans watching the game on the JV field . . . in their winter finery! Osakis v. Bertha-Hewitt went extra innings at 3 – 3 – then B-W scored 2 in the top of the inning . . . ]
[But Osakis came back to win with 3 in the bottom of the inning.]
[Getting down to the nitty-gritty. The Cards have an 8-run lead, two more runs from the 5th inning on will end the game by the 10-run rule. Here’s Sydney, who had a nice game with two hits including a triple, 2 RBI’s, and 2 runs scored.]
[Zig going for the bunt single again.]
[This is Ellie’s line out . . . ]
[To short.]
[I guess 3 for 4 is still a pretty decent day.]
[Gotta have strength up the middle – so here’s Zig at shortstop where her defense is a real asset.]
[Calley hits one to left . . . ]
[Maybe this one was the double?]
[Is that you Rev?]
[A prelude to . . . ]
[Kendra’s up in the bottom of the 6th with a runner on . . . ]
[I said to Brad sitting next to me, “Two-run homer, Cards win 10-0.”]
[And she did it!! I knew she had power, but I didn’t realize until later that was her first homer of the year. Cards win and move on.]
If you’re dating a softball player, raise your hand. If you’re not, raise your standards. ~ Unknown
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