Sandites Go 1-2 at Tough Owasso Festival, Beat Bartlesville
/The Charles Page High School fast-pitch softball team (8-3) got a preview of the post-season this weekend at the Owasso Festival, sandwiching a win against Bartlesville between a pair of losses to last year’s top dogs.
On Friday the Sandites fell 10-0 to undefeated host Owasso (13-0) in a four-inning affair before winning 6-3 against Bartlesville (3-8). On Saturday they suffered another setback, 7-0 against defending State Champion Edmond Memorial (7-4).
Winners of six in a row coming into the Friday showcase, the Sandites fell behind early against the Rams as Jayelle Austin hit a homer on Owasso’s first at-bat.
The Rams loaded the bases on two walks and a single before the Sandites swapped Kelsi Hilton (1-1) out for Addison Hughes (5-1), who gave up a grand slam to Karson Holson.
Owasso scored four more runs on a pair of errors in the third and fourth innings then capped it off with an RBI single from Tulsa-commit Brookley Foster for the walkoff.
Preslee Downing got the win for the Rams, surrendering only one hit with eight strikeouts.
Kylie King (2-1) got the girls back on track, pitching four hits and three strikeouts against the Bruins. Seven different players recorded one hit apiece and six players scored runs.
A pair of first-inning errors gave Bartlesville its only lead but Bella Wilson, Morgan Rector, and Hilton hit back-to-back-to-back doubles, followed by singles from Lakelyn Harger and Kaylei Rake.
Harger scored on a groundout by Ashlyn Clark, Rake scored on a passed ball, then Kenzie King scored on a groundout by Bailey Copeland for the 6-1 lead before the inning came to a close.
Two more errors set up Chloe Robbins for an RBI single in the second, then Isabell Daniels scored on a groundout by Mady Nachbor in the fifth for the final run of the game.
Hughes took her first loss of the season against the Bulldogs, tossing seven hits, three walks, and two strikeouts in 3.2 innings before being relieved by King, who surrendered three hits in 1.2 innings.
UCF-commit Beth Damon got Edmond Memorial on the board with a two-run homer in the bottom of the first, then Kensington Perrotti hit an RBI double in the third. ACU-commit Ari Maxwell added a solo homer in the fourth to kick off a three-hit, four-run inning.
Sand Springs stranded six runners on five hits in the shutout loss. Keegan Baker got the win with a five-strikeout two-hitter.
The Sandites will return to action Thursday at home with a district double header against Moore (9-2, 1-1).
Moore will be the fourth team thus far that the Sandites have played from last year’s State Tournament. The Sandites may have fallen to Edmond Memorial and Owasso, but they also won a district double-header against Southmoore on Tuesday.
