CPHS Softball: Luttrell and Usher hit 4 homers apiece in double-header upsets of Owasso
/The unranked Charles Page High School slow pitch softball team knocked off Class 6A No. 7 Owasso (4-6) in back-to-back games of a double-header on the Rams’ home turf Thursday evening to improve to 4-0 on the season.
Elizabeth Luttrell (2-0) got the win in game one, giving up thirteen hits and six walks in the 19-10 victory.
Sand Springs recorded twenty hits in the game, half of which were home runs. Luttrell and Sabrina Usher scored three home runs apiece, Reagan Rector hit two, and Mackenzie Bechtold and Rachael Jones hit one apiece.
Luttrell’s first homer gave the team a 2-0 lead in the top of the first but the Rams surged back for a 9-2 advantage with six hits, four walks, and two homers in the bottom of the inning. Bechtold and Jones hit back-to-back solo dingers to kick off the resurgent second inning. Rector scored three, Usher scored two to tie it, and Luttrell scored the final go-ahead run.
Game two was another come-from-behind victory, this time 17-10 with Aliyah Taff (2-0) on the mound. Taff threw twelve hits and five walks with one strikeout.
Sand Springs recorded twenty runs in the second game as well, this time with seven homers.
Bechtold took the first lead with a two-run single in the top of the first to score Felicity Horn and Luttrell. Owasso hit two homers for a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the inning, then added a grand slam in the third.
Avery Tanner hit an RBI single in the fourth, Usher and Skaggs hit two-run homers in the fifth to tie it, and Tanner hit a two run homer for the lead. Horn, Luttrell, and Bechtold went yard in the sixth and Rector scored three in the seventh.
The Sandites will return to action Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. when they travel to Barnsdall (7-6).