The Lady Cardinals spent Friday and Saturday taking part in the Paige Neal/Christian Freeman tournament at the Joplin Athletic Complex. Splitting a pair of games on Friday morning, a third was washed away later in the afternoon. On Saturday, placed in the silver bracket, they dropped a pair of games to finish at 1-3 on the weekend.
Liz Rhuems led the team offensively going 5-8 at the plate with two doubles and a home run and drawing a team high five walks and getting hit once. A total of six home runs were hit by the Cardinals, one each by Rhuems, Avrie Allen, Karsyn Cahoon, Abby Sargent, Brecklynn Sargent and Alex Maturino.
Game Summaries
Webb City 10 - McDonald County 0
In the first game Friday, the Cardinals knocked off McDonald County 10-0. Scoring once in the first and three times in the second, the Cardinals built an early 4-0 lead. Abby Sargent led of the first with a single, moving around to third on a bunt and ground out. She scored when the Mustangs were unable to secure a fly ball off the bat of Lily Hall. Karson Cahoon homered to right to start the second. One batter later, Brecklynn Sargent drilled a homer to left. After a pitching change, Abby Sargent was hit by a pitch, stole second and then scored on a Noa Shewmake base hit.
The Cardinals doubled their run total in the fifth, scoring four more runs. Loading the bases with no outs, pinch runner Jo Jarmin scored on a wild pitch and courtesy runner Jayden Houston came home on a ground out from Cahoon. Avrie Allen followed with a two run shot to center.
The final two runs came in the sixth as the Alex Maturino hit the team's fourth home run of the game, a two run homer scoring Jayden Houston who singled to open the frame.
Avrie Allen went the distance for the win, scattering five hits over six innings, striking out five without issuing a walk.
Broken Arrow 6 - Webb City 4
At the conclusion of game one, Broken Arrow took the field. The Tigers scored a run in five of the seven innings in downing the Cardinals 6-4. Hitting first, Broken Arrow's leadoff batter homered to center. The Cardinals came right back as Abby Sargent pulled a home run to right field to tie the game. Back to back singles from Now Shewmake and Liz Rhuems who were then moved along on a ground out put runners at second and third with only out. Lily Hall scored Shewmake with another ground out and the Cardinals led 2-1 after one.
Broken Arrow then scored a single run in both the second and third innings, scoring twice in the fourth and once more in the sixth to build a 6-1 lead. A two run rally in the bottom of the sixth from the Cardinals, including a Rhuems home run, was not enough as the game ended with a loss at 6-4.
Shewmake, Rhuems and Hall each recorded two hits in the game.
Addie Burns threw the first four innings taking the loss. Alivia Nieburg worked the final three innings.
A third game had just started later in the afternoon when the rain finally washed away the rest of the day.
Ray-Pec 7 - Webb City 4
Placed in the silver bracket, the first game on Saturday was against Ray-Pec. A single run from the Panthers in the second was answered with two Cardinal runs in the bottom of the inning. Avrie Allen walked to begin the inning. Kyley Senter, running for Allen, went to third on a base hit by Addie Burns. A double steal saw Senter score the tying run. A walk to Chasney Brown and Brecklyn Sargent reaching on a fielders choice loaded the bases. Abby Sargent knocked in a Burns with a base hit, still leaving the bases loaded. Ray-Pec was able to escape when Noe Shewmake lined into a double play.
In the third, Webb City was forced to answer a three run top of the inning by the Panthers. The first three batters (Rhuems, Hall and Allen) all reached base to start the inning. Limiting the damage, Ray-Pec traded runs for outs and the Cardinals knotted the game back up at four each.
Unable to score the rest of the way, Ray-Pec put up a run in the fourth and two more in the sixth to pull out a 7-4 win.
The offense was limited to only four hits and fell victim to 10 strikeouts on the game. Avrie Allen hurled the first three innings, replaced by Alivia Nieburg who was tagged the loss over the final three innings.
Webb City 1 - Ozark 5
Taking on COC foe Ozark in the second game, the Cardinals came out on the short end of 5-1 contest.
A promising start, Liz Rhuems led off the game with a double, stole third and scored on a bunt from Abby Sargent. However, that was all of the scoring for the Cardinals.
Addie Burns made the single run hold up as she worked around a bases loaded first inning and then cruised through the next three. The Tigers were able to finally break through in the fifth, scoring five times, four of them with two outs.
Rhuems was perfect at the plate, 2-2 with two doubles and drawing two walks.
Webb City (3-4) will now go on the road to Lebanon on Tuesday before returning home on Thursday.