CPHS Softball: Sandites improve to 6-0 with wins over Silo, Mustang, Edmond North

The Charles Page High School varsity softball team (6-0) continued its undefeated start to the season with a trio of tournament wins over Silo (3-2), Mustang (2-2), and Edmond North (2-7) this weekend at the Sandite Softball Complex. The games were part of the Broken Arrow Tournament, but were relocated to Sand Springs due to soggy fields at Arrowhead Park. 

The Sandites jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first Friday against Silo as Jaden Jordan hit her second home run of the season. Nobody scored again till the bottom of the fourth when the Rebels went off with three singles and a pair of sacrifices to take a 3-2 lead. 

Sand Springs tied it up in the top of the sixth with a run from Madison Lee and the game went into extra innings at 3-3. Because it was a tournament, the game went to international tie breaker in the eighth inning, and each team started their at-bats with a runner on second. 

Silo was in prime position after striking out the first two Sandites, but Raegan Rector drew a walk and Jordan and Aliyah Taff hit RBI singles for the 5-3 lead. Gracie Lawless scored Silo’s final run of the game on an error.

Taff (4-0, 21-14) got the win in the circle with seven hits and three strikeouts, while Christina Clark got the loss with six hits, three walks, and seven strikeouts. 

The game against Mustang was another close one at 3-2 on Friday. Cassie Passwaters hit a solo home run for the Broncos in the top of the first. Lee scored on an error to tie it, Rector scored on a passed ball, and Avery Tanner  batted in Jordan with an RBI single to make it 3-1. Passwaters batted in another run on a sacrifice in the sixth, but that would be the final score of the game. 

Nataley Crawford (2-0, 5-2) got the win with three hits, two strikeouts, and two walks. Kiera McGahee took the loss with four hits, two strikeouts, and two walks.

On Saturday the Sandites got their first shutout of the year 7-0 against Edmond North behind a two-hit, no-walk, five-strikeout pitching performance from Taff. Drew Hawkins was two-for-two at the plate with two runs, two RBI, and a double.

Sand Springs piled on five runs in the top of the first with singles from Lee and Rector, and doubles from Taff, Hawkins, and Olivia Alexander. In the top of the sixth Alexander had another double to score Tanner, and Hawkins scored on a ground hit from Crawford. Morgan Thomas took the loss for the Huskies with six hits, no walks, and two strikeouts.

Sandite softball will return to action Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. against Bristow (3-1) in the final game of the tournament.