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Post commentThe Lady Raiders earned a split Wednesday afternoon against Jefferson dropping the first game 12-2 in five innings before coming back and winning the second game, 5-0.
In the second game, Chelsea Claypole was solid on the mound for the win. She threw seven innings and had two strikeouts, allowing just four hits along with one walk.
Three Rivers (18-11) got on the board in the fourth inning as Leslie Taylor walked and Maegan Booker drove her in with a home run that made it 2-0.
"Booker came and it was one of those you talk up about having all your life," Three Rivers coach Jack Childress said.
Wendy Eftink added to the lead in the sixth inning. After Taylor and Booker both reached on errors, Eftink made Jefferson with a three-run home run pay that made it 5-0.
"Eftink hadn't really done anything, hadn't got anything except singles and she got all of it to center field," Childress said.
After losing the opening game, Childress was proud of how the team came together to get the split, he said.
"The girls were saying encouraging things, especially the sophomores," Childress said. "I can't say enough about them and how they have been good leaders lately."
In the first game, Kaci Smith was roughed up as she allowed seven runs on eight hits in one inning of work. She got through the first inning with just two runs scoring but Jefferson scored five times in the second before she was pulled in favor of Brittany Holoien.
"(Smith) didn't have that bad of a first inning one run scored and that just started it," Childress said. "The second inning, things just started going haywire."
Holoien allowed two runs in the second inning before allowing two in the third and one in the fourth. Jefferson had six hits and just two strikeouts against Holoien.
Three Rivers scored runs in the third and fourth innings but on eight hits, couldn't manage to do any more damage.
"We didn't hit their pitching and we didn't pitch well," Childress said. "We just didn't get anything going and couldn't string anything together."