CRC Softball overwhelmed by Cottey
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | R | H | E | |
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Crowley's Ridge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
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Cottey | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 1 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Crowley's Ridge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
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Cottey | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
April 3, 2021
by Dustin Semore, Sports Information Director
NEVADA, Mo. - Crowley's Ridge softball traveled to the Show-Me State for a doubleheader against Cottey (Mo.) College, where the Comets took both games from the Lady 'Neers, 9-0 in the first game and 5-1 in the second.
GAME ONE (5 innings)
Crowley's Ridge - 0
Cottey - 9
After an unremarkable first inning with Sammi Henry (SR/Marmaduke, Ark.) in the circle to start, the Lady Pioneers (9-11) saw the Comets explode with a six-run inning off of six hits, highlighted by back-to-back home runs from Alyssa Montoya and Lauren Johnson.
Cottey (19-6) added three more runs and five more hits in the fourth inning, capped by Kristen Hurt's two-run double. The game ended before the Lady 'Neers could find the run column after five innings with a 9-0 final in favor of Cottey.
Hannah Powell (SR/Piggott, Ark.) and Kaitlyn Stebelton (SR/Crosby, Texas) were the lone Lady Pioneers with base hits with Rachel Russell (SR/Russellville, Ark.) reaching on an error to be the only girls in green to reach the basepaths.
GAME TWO
Crowley's Ridge - 1
Cottey - 5
Crowley's Ridge (9-12) sent Adrienne Stucker (SO/Poplar Bluff, Mo.) to the circle for game two where the sophomore completed her fourth complete game, holding the Comets to five runs.
Cottey (20-6) plated two runs in the third inning, followed by a two-run fourth inning helped by two Lady Pioneer fielding miscues to go ahead 4-0.
The Lady Pioneers plated their lone run of the day in the top of the fifth inning when Hannah Powell hit a one-out single that was followed by a single from April Kennedy (JR/Marmaduke, Ark.). It was Kaitlyn Stebelton's double that drove Powell around to put the Lady 'Neers on the scoreboard trailing 4-1. Cottey's Caitlyn Morgan hit her ninth long ball of the season to put the game out of reach to end the day with the Comets winning 5-1.
Stebelton reached base all three times she stepped to the plate, drawing a walk sandwiched by a team-leading two hits. Aubrey Jackson (SO/Glen Rose, Ark.), Kennedy, and Powell collected the other three hits for CRC.
UP NEXT
Crowley's Ridge will take one day's rest before hosting American Midwest Conference foe Lyon (Ark.) College on Monday, April 5. The doubleheader from Pioneer Park starts at 1 p.m.