The
Lady Trojans opened the playoffs with a win against Highland Baptist Monday
night behind three perfectly pitched innings from Elizabeth Soileau. “The game
was very well played,” said coach Patrick Richey. “Our whole season has been
well played this year. We just gotta keep our hitting and our bats done. Our
fielding has been coming on really strong.”
Soileau
started the game retiring Highland Baptist in order, and she led off the bottom
of the inning with a single. Courtney Vidrine singled setting up a 2-RBI single
for Gabby Andrepont. Morgan Touchet then pitched her way out of trouble to end
the inning.
The
second inning featured Soileau again retiring Highland Baptist in order. Hannah
Lemoine picked up a ball at short stop off the bat of Amelia Provost and threw
to Andrepont at first base to record the third out of the inning, but an
illegal pitch was called on Soileau. A pitch later Provost again grounded to
Lemoine who threw to Andrepont for the out. As Yogi Berra would say, “It's déjà
vu all over again."
Touchet
found a groove in the bottom of the second inning despite two Lady Trojans being
left on base. Laura Beth Fontenot reached on an error, and Vidrine got on base
with a two out walk.
The
script continued for Soileau in the top of the third inning as she retired the
side in order. The Lady Trojans then exploded in the bottom of the inning with
12 runs, eight hits, and two errors as they sent 14 hitters to the plate. Deuces
were wild in the inning as Kara Aguillard hit two doubles and scored two runs
and as Caroline Fontenot and Sydney Fontenot both scored two runs. Vidrine
added a triple after the visitors went to the bullpen bringing in Haley Peters and
Lemoine added a double four batters later.
“We’re
looking forward to our next game against whoever we get to play,” added Richey.
“Hopefully after tonight we’ll get to see who it is, and then we’ll figure out
when we’re gonna play.” His questions were answered as tenth ranked St. Edmund
defeated 23rd ranked Northwood-Lena 9-8. The Lady Trojans host the
Lady Blue Jays Wednesday with a trip to Sulpher on the line.
