CPHS Softball: Lady Sandites upset No. 6 Broken Arrow and No. 10 Jenks
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The Class 6A No. 17 ranked Charles Page High School slow pitch softball team (8-10) ended the regular season on a high note with a pair of quality upsets over top-ten opponents Thursday. The Lady Sandites bested No. 6 Broken Arrow 7-6 and No. 10 Jenks 25-4.
Sand Springs narrowly overcame Broken Arrow (10-8), using a pair of errors in the top of the seventh for the final lead of the game.
Broken Arrow took an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first with five singles, but the Sandites tied it up in the top of the third as Kimi Presnell scored on an error and Jensen Arnold singled in Makenna Skaggs.
Felicity Horn gave Sand Springs their first lead in the top of the fourth, reaching on an error and scoring on a line out by Drew Hawkins. The Lady Tigers tied it back up with a pair of singles and an error in the bottom of the inning.
Arnold scored on a single from Madison Lee in the top of the fifth and Payton Hayes scored on an error in the bottom of the inning. Kinsey Skaggs scored on an error in the sixth and Sabrina Usher singled to score Presnell.
Broken Arrow scattered several big hits in the bottom of the sixth. Morgan Kerr, Evie Herring, and McKenzie Carney hit doubles and Mary Collins drilled a triple to tie it at 6-6.
Blair reached on an error, took second on a hit from Elizabeth Luttrell, and scored on an error in center field for the final run of the game.
In game two the Lady Sandites throttled Jenks (18-10), dealing the Trojans their second-largest loss of the season and biggest since the first game of the year.
Sand Springs recorded 26 hits, led by Usher with two triples and four RBI. Hawkins, Arnold, and Luttrell batted in three apiece to avenge a 20-19 loss at the Haskell Tournament earlier this month.
Sand Springs Softball will return to action Tuesday in Moore at their Regional Tournament bracket. The Lady Sandites will play a double-elimination tournament against No. 3 Southmoore (21-5) and Norman (4-11) beginning at noon.
