Summit Feeling Blue: Webster 14, Summit 8

If you're ever tempted to complain about bad calls, remember this game. I think we win anyway, but I felt bad for Summit, who came out on the short end of almost every call in the field, including one where I called our runner out from the third-base coaching box, only to be overruled by the field ump. They may have been seeing red more than feeling blue, but they were gracious in the post-game and didn't take their (deserved) hard feelings out on us on a beautiful day for softball.

Despite having two players on the DL (Karlee Scholtes, concussion symptoms, Olivia Weik, flu), we used our speed and aggressive base running to push the agenda and open up a 12-3 lead. We couldn't push it over the 10-run rule, in part because of some curious base running of our own and questionable coaching decisions over in the third-base box.

Nevertheless, Josie Krueger earned her fifth win by taking over in the circle in Inning 2 and finishing out the game, showing good control with only 2 walks. Julia Love had a very strong game at second and the plate and Nicole Preston took advantage of her opportunity with 2 hits, 2 RBI, 2 putouts and an OF assist. Her strong back up allowed our substitute center fielder Alina Castro to be aggressive to the ball, freezing a runner and giving Nicole the chance to make the force out at second. 

Becca DeGreeff knocked in 4 runs with her two hits, including a triple and Josie, Alina, Caroline and Emma (who now has 27 RBI in just 14 games) each added a couple more to pace our 16-hit attack. 

Despite Olivia's absence we continued to see strong OF play and our IF was good, as well. Once again, a solid team effort resulted in our fourth win a row. We travel to Kirkwood Wednesday in another conference game that should present a challenge. Hope to see a lot of orange in the stands that afternoon.

In the meantime, here's today's box and some great shots from AmyJo Love. (Thanks, Amy)