ATHENS POUNDS OUT 18-0 WIN OVER SAYRE
By: Tim Birney | AthensWildcats.com | April 23, 2021 | Photo courtesy Matt Patton
SAYRE — Athens pounded out 14 hits in an 18-0 three-inning win over
Valley rival Sayre here Friday afternoon in NTL softball action.
The
Lady Wildcats improve to 8-1 on the season, while the Lady Redskins
fall to 0-7. Despite the difference, Athens coach Mickey Farrell said he
told his team to disregard the records.
“Before the game, I told
the girls that Sayre is not a team to take lightly, they gave Northeast
(Bradford) and Towanda all they could handle,” said Farrell. So it's
pedal-to-the-metal and let's not give them a chance to hang with us.
They are our number one rival, so we need to bury them from the start.
“It was the loudest our dugout has been all year, they were really into it,” added Farrell. “I couldn't be prouder.”
Athens took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a two-RBI single by Mallory Mummert.
Sayre
had a pair of singles (by Madison Smith and Hailey McCaig) and a walk
in the home half of the inning, but had two runners wiped out on the
base paths, and did not score.
The Lady Wildcats took advantage
of a pair of walks and two Sayre errors to plate seven runs in the
second inning to take a 9-0 lead. Macie Coyle and Aliyah Butler
delivered RBI singles in the rally.
Athens scored its first three
runs in the third inning scored on an outfield error with the bases
loaded. They added runs on RBI singles by Aliyah Butler and Carlie
Simpson, and a two-RBI double by Ashlyn VanFleet, who scored on an RBI
groundout off the bat of Coyle.
Mummert singled twice, scored two
runs, and had three RBI, while Audrey Hatch had two hits, three runs
scored, and two RBI, and VanFleet doubled and singled, scored three
runs, and drove in two runs to lead Athens at the plate.
Coyle
singled twice, scored two runs, and drove in two runs in the win, while
Butler singled twice and drove in one run, Simpson singled, scored two
runs, and drove in one run, Harley Sullivan singled, scored three runs,
and knocked in one run, Alli Thoman singled and scored two runs, Marissa
Butler added a single, and Addy Repsher and Megan Collins each scored
one run.
Aliyah Butler earned the win for the Lady Wildcats, allowing four hits in three shutout innings.
Smith, McCaig, Lizzy Shaw, and Olivia Corbin accounted for Sayre’s four hits.
Athens returns to action Saturday at the Central Columbia Tournament, while Sayre hosts Troy at 1 p.m.
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