Whitehall went 1-1 Saturday at the GMAA Tier 2 tournament,
defeating rival Montague 18-3 before losing a 10-9 heartbreaker to
Holton.
The Vikes' final game went back and forth, and they
erased a 4-0 deficit to go ahead 6-4 with back-to-back three-run innings
in the fourth and fifth. It appeared Whitehall was in even better shape
when it scored three times in the seventh to swell its lead from 6-5 to
9-5. However, Holton stormed back with several hits in the bottom of
the inning to deliver the winning run on a single.
Toree
Carlson's fourth-inning two-run single was key to the Vikings' comeback,
and in the fifth, Janie Fagan drove in a run with a single, followed
later by a two-run single from Emily Hawkins. Fagan then crushed a
two-run home run to center field as part of the Vikes' three-run
seventh.
However, the first six Red Devils reached in the
bottom of the seventh, pulling them within one. Whitehall pitcher Beth
LeaTrea, facing a bases-loaded, nobody-out situation with a one-run
lead, came up with a clutch strikeout and a popout to preserve the lead,
but a hit-by-pitch tied the game, and Mia Giddings' single won it.
Hawkins got three hits in the game, and Fagan and Kayden Johnson had two each.
The
Vikings rolled against Montague in their first game, scoring seven
times in the first inning and 10 more in the second to win the game by
mercy rule. Emily Ames led the barrage with three hits and five RBI, and
Johnson and Fagan had two hits each. Ames got the win in the circle.
For Montague, Kaelyn Lohman picked up two hits, and Gentry Knop had two RBI.
Montague
dropped a 13-8 decision to Muskegon in its second game of the day,
despite a seven-run second inning. Brynlee Kessler drove in three runs
for Montague, and Alanna Hysell and Addy Hall each got a hit and drew
two walks.
