Senior Jalyn Leible joined her freshman teammates at the top of the home run leaderboard Tuesday.
Leible hit her second home run of the season, which gave her the team-high along with freshmen …
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Senior Jalyn Leible joined her freshman teammates at the top of the home run leaderboard Tuesday.
Leible hit her second home run of the season, which gave her the team-high along with freshmen Kymorie Myers and Ella Slater, and drove in four RBI in North Callaway’s 11-1 win in six innings at Eastern Missouri Conference foe Mark Twain. Slater and Myers were each one base short of the round-tripper as they hit triples, and Slater finished with three RBI.
Lauren Speight kept the Lady Tigers (6-16, 3-6) to five hits, an unearned run and a walk in six innings wil striking out seven. Mark Twain’s Bronwyn Harding allowed four earned runs on seven hits in five innings while issuing five of the seven Ladybird walks.
“It was an excellent job by Lauren in the circle,” head coach Mariah McKee said. “Our batters were very selective at the plate. We took several walks on full counts, and they were borderline so they did a real good job at the plate.”
The Ladybirds scored five runs in the second inning for an early comfortable lead, highlighted by Leible’s three-RBI home run, and clinched the early victory with five more runs in the sixth inning, when Slater cleared the bases with her triple.
North Callaway junior varsity won 9-0 in four innings.
North Callaway drops 11-0 season finale at Bowling Green
It was a duel between strike-throwers in the circle Thursday, but Bowling Green hit more of them than North Callaway.
The Ladybirds lost 11-0 in five innings at Eastern Missouri Conference foe and Class 3 No. 9 Bowling Green — their first state-ranked team after playing three in four games a week ago. Lauren Speight couldn’t make it past the third inning after allowing six runs on seven singles and one walk in 40 pitches. Bowling Green pitcher Megan Graver struck out nine while allowing two hits and one walk on 51 pitches.
North Callaway (7-16, 5-5 EMO) had its first hit off a bunt single by Corynne Miller to lead off the game but then entered a drought that lasted until Ellie Bedsworth hit a single in the fifth inning. By that time, Bowling Green (18-8, 9-1 EMO) scored four runs in the second inning, two runs in the third and five runs in the fourth.
North Callaway is the No. 5 seed in the Class 2 District 3 Tournament to be hosted by South Callaway in Mokane. The Ladybirds face the host and No. 4 Lady Bulldogs at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the first round.
