PITSBURG – Twin Valley South run-ruled Franklin Monroe 12-1 in softball action to get their first win of the season and WOAC win.
It was Franklin Monroe’s sixth game of the year. They entered the game 1-4 on the year with their lone win, 11-0, over Legacy Christian. They fell to 1-5, 0-1 in the WOAC.
Both teams went down in order in the first inning.
Senior Lila Davis to the circle to start the game for Franklin Monroe squaring off against Twin Valley South junior Emilee Zinn.
Both teams would score in the second inning.
The Panthers freshman Paityn Cross doubled and then scored on a base hit to right field from junior Peyton Howard for a 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the second, the Jets answered with back-to-back two-out singles from freshmen Quinn Simason and Nevaeh Wills. Simason scored on a pass ball to tie the game at 1-1.
It would be the only run scored in the game for Franklin Monroe.
The Panthers would rock the Jets in the third inning, scoring 10 runs to break the game open.
Sophomore Amelia Suggs rapped a triple that scored two runs: senior Lexi Thompson and junior Maddie Nelson.
Paityn Cross singled to score Suggs. Both Cross and Peyton Howard, who walked, scored when Zinn hit a hard ball that the Jets couldn’t hit to push the lead to 6-1.
A walk and back-to-back hit by pitch scored sophomore Adisen Johnson. The pitching struggles continued for Franklin, with two more walks and two wild pitches that saw four more runs score before the Jets could get out of the inning but now trailed 11-1.
Twin Valley South added one more run at the top of the fifth inning, but the Jets’ bats were quiet most of the night as Zinn would shut them down in the bottom of the fifth to get the 12-1 win.
Emilee Zinn threw five innings, had five strikeouts, and gave up four hits and one run for the game.
Offensively, Amelia Suggs went 1-3, with 3 RBIs and three runs scored. Paityn Cross was 2-3, 1 RBI, and two run scores and Peyton Howard 2-2, 1 RBI, and one run, and Maddie Nelson 1-2, 1 RBI, and three run scored.
Lila Davis, Quinn Simason, Nevaeh Wills and Layni Ressler each had 1 hit for the Jets.
