CPHS Softball: Sandites top Broken Arrow 19-8 and Berryhill 9-0

The 2018 Slow Pitch Softball season has been a mess for the Sand Springs Sandites with more cancellations than gamedays.

After starting the season 2-3, the Charles Page High School Softball team had to cancel seven-straight games due to weather and field conditions before getting back into the swing of things at the Haskell Tournament. 

The Ides of March saw a split double header as the Class 6A No. 14 ranked Lady Sandites (3-6) upset No. 5 Broken Arrow (7-4) in game one before getting hammered in the second installment.

Sand Springs easily handled the Tigers in game one, more than doubling the Tigers in both runs and hits. 

Elizabeth Luttrell hit a two RBI home run in the third inning for a 6-0 lead, then Sabrina Usher, Luttrell, Kimi Presnell, and Madelyn Blair all hit home runs in the bottom of the fourth to make it 11-4. Taber, Blair, and Presnell hit homers in the sixth and the Sandites prevailed 19-8. 

Game two was a total reversal as the Tigers dominated Sand Springs 31-8. Broken Arrow piled on fifteen runs in the third inning for a 20-3 lead. Presnell hit a home run in the bottom of the third, the Tigers pushed it to 31-3 in the top of the fourth, then Presnell scored Cameron Clemons and Makenna Skaggs with a home run for the final runs of the game.

On Thursday the Sandites fell by a single run after leading No. 10 Jenks (11-4) for the entire game till the Trojans pulled away in the bottom of the fourth. 

Sand Springs took a 5-0 first inning lead capped by a two-run homer by Blair, then Presnell did the same in the second inning to make it 7-0. Skaggs, Presnell, and Jensen Arnold hit home runs in the third, then Rachel Jones, Presnell, and Arnold homered in the fourth for a 19-9 advantage. 

The Trojans picked up five walks and four home runs for a 20-19 lead in the bottom of the fourth before time expired. The Trojans swept the competition for first place in the tournament.

The Sandites went down 16-5 to 4A No. 12 Haskell (12-8), but easily handled 5A No. 11 Berryhill (13-8) in the third round of the tournament. Presnell was two-for-two at the plate with two homers and Clemons scored one of her own for the 9-0 shutout. 

Oktaha was another close loss as the 4A No. 19 Tigers (11-4) prevailed 18-16 and fended off a sixth-inning rally. Arnold hit a home run and the Sandites led 5-2 in the top of the second, but Oktaha rallied in the bottom of the inning to make it 8-5.

Blair homered in the third, Presnell and Arnold in the fourth, and the Sandites jumped back out front at 11-8, but the Tigers took the lead once and for all in the bottom of the fourth. Blair hit another home run in the fifth.

Sand Springs Softball will return to action Monday at 5:00 p.m. when they host a double-header against 5A No. 8 Kellyville (12-6).