Lady Warriors’ season ends Thursday at Keota

KEOTA–Webbers Falls‚ high school softball season ended Thursday in Haskell County with a pair of Class A district tournament losses to Afton and No. 20 Keota.

Afton 13, Webbers Falls 3 (Game 1) The Lady Warriors grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning of Thursday‚s district tournament opener but Afton‚s Lady Eagles responded with five runs in the bottom of the frame on their way to the Game 1 victory over the Lady Warriors.

With two outs in the Webbers Falls‚ first Samantha Griffith drew a walk, and after stealing second went to third following an errant throw to second. Savannah Frazier‚s RBI single to center field scored Griffith to give the Lady Warriors a 1-0 advantage. Gracie Sturgell‚s fly single behind first base and Lextyn Chappell‚s walk loaded the bases but a strikeout ended the at-bat.

Afton scored five runs in the bottom of the first on two hits, two walks and three errors.

Bailey Ward led off the Webbers Falls‚ second with a walk and moved to third on a pair of errors but two flyouts ended the scoring threat.

A run in the bottom of the second gave the Lady Eagles a 6-1 lead but Webbers Falls registered two runs in the third to make the score 6-3. Back-toback base hits by Frazier and Sturgell and Rhilee Jones‚ infield single loaded the bases before Ward‚s walk and Bridgette Baer‚s single to right field produced two runs to cut the lead in half.

Afton recorded three runs in the bottom of the third to put the Lady Eagles in front 9-3 and in the top of the fourth Frazier reached first on an infield single for the Lady Warriors.

The Lady Eagles totaled four runs in the bottom of the fourth to end the game.

In Game 2 of the tournament Keota scored three runs in the bottom of the first and 10 in the second to defeat the Lady Warriors 13-0.

Maddy Raskey (walk in the first inning) was Webbers Falls‚ only base runner in the contest.