SOFTBALL
It was a pitchers’ duel in the first meeting back in March and Thursday night in Bridge City it was more of the same. The Bridge City Lady Cardinals scored a walk off run in the bottom of the ninth to edge the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears 1-0 and sweep the two games with their intra-county rivals.
The win puts Bridge City (6-1) in sole possession of first place in the district by half a game over Little Cypress-Mauriceville (6-2). The Lady Cardinals could go up a full game on Friday in a game that was postponed from Tuesday against the Silsbee Lady Tigers.
On March 24 Kassidy Wilbur of Bridge City and Briana Frenzel of LC-M both tossed shutouts for five innings at Little Cypress-Mauriceville. Frenzel left the circle after that and the Lady Cardinals scored three runs in the seventh against a reliever. Thursday night the two stellar hurlers were locked in a scoreless battle for eight innings.
Peyton Trapp led off the bottom of the ninth for Bridge City with only the second hit of the night off of Frenzel. Wilbur and Kyndall Harrison both laid down excellent sacrifice bunts that moved Trapp to third with two outs. Caitlain Denison after missing a walk off homer by inches lined a 1-2 pitch to right field which brought home the winning run and started a dugout clearing celebration for the Lady Cardinals.
Wilbur was the winning pitcher (14-2) with a complete game shutout extending her scoreless string to 16 innings against the Lady Bears this season. She yielded only two hits and two walks while striking out 18. Frenzel gave up a hit to Wilbur to start the first inning and did not yield another hit until the ninth. She only walked one and struck out 16 Lady Cardinals in suffering her first loss (7-1) of the season for LC-M.
The makeup game with Silsbee for Bridge City on Friday will be played at Jasper. The Lady Tigers handed the Lady Cardinals their only district loss so far when the two teams played at Bridge City earlier. The score was 2-0 and the only hit Wilbur allowed was a two-run homer. Silsbee (5-2) could move into a three-way tie for first place with a win over Bridge City.
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Silsbee 1 Orangefield 0
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Sabine Pass 10 Deweyville 0
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Hamshire-Fannett 19 WOS 8
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BASEBALL
Luc Hollier had the game winning hit in the 9th as BC beat LCM 5-4.
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WOS defeated Hamshire- Fannett 4-3
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Big Sandy 10 Deweyville 0
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OF lost to Silsbee 9-0
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