Softball Roundup: Millers take all-county contest, Carmel wins high-scoring game, Sheridan rolls to first win of season

The REPORTER

The Noblesville softball team won a Hoosier Crossroads Conference and all-county game at Fishers Tuesday 4-1.

Both teams scored a run in the second inning. Makayla Jacquay scored for the Millers after Delaney Rundle reached on an error, then Kendall Jordan got home for the Tigers when Azstryd Alexander was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Jacquay doubled in the go-ahead run for Noblesville in the third inning, bringing Gabby Fowler home. The Millers added two runs in the fourth inning: Rundle drove in Neaveh Nash with a left field hit; Rundle then scored on Fowler’s sacrifice bunt.

Claire Cullen pitched a complete game for Noblesville, striking out eight. Fishers’ Kate Murray also went the distance, throwing seven strikeouts.

The Millers are 2-0 in HCC play and 4-1 overall. They host Carmel at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon. The Tigers played their conference opener; they are 4-4 overall and play two games on Saturday, taking on Indianapolis Lutheran at 10 a.m. and Whiteland at 12:30 p.m.

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Carmel picked up a 12-10, eight-inning win at Lawrence North Tuesday.

The Greyhounds put up five runs in the second inning to take an early lead. Ellie Goddard singled in Katherine Smith for the first run, then Jayden Kleiner blasted a three-run double, bringing Goddard, Avery Klein and Alex Longstreth home. Mia Fleming hit her own double to score W Owens, who was running for Kleiner.

The Wildcats got a run back in the fourth inning, but Carmel answered in the top of the fifth with another run. Paxton Law hit a double, moved to third base on a wild pitch and was brought home by Katherine Warren’s sacrifice fly.

Lawrence North hit two three-run home runs to take a 7-6 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Greyhounds took the lead back in the top of the seventh: Kleiner smacked a two-run homer, also scoring Goddard. Warren hit another RBI sacrifice fly to bring in Kathryn Merryman, then Law got home on a wild pitch.

The Wildkats scored twice in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game at 10-10. Carmel took the lead for good in the top of the eighth, as Fleming singled in Longstreth, then Law hit a sacrifice fly to bring Kleiner home.

Law finished the game with two doubles, with Kleiner and Fleming totaling three hits. Gracyn Erickson got the pitching win.

The Greyhounds are 3-6 and play at Noblesville this afternoon.

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Sheridan beat Herron 20-1 in a five-inning game on Tuesday for its first win of the season.

Abby Dallas, Emma Settles, Abbi Merritt and Claudia Headlee all had two hits for the Blackhawks, with Merritt hitting a triple. Dallas scored four runs, with Settles and Headlee both scoring three. Merritt drove in five runs, with Settles batting in three runs.

Maelei Casler got the pitching win, tossing nine strikeouts and allowing three walks and one hit.

Sheridan is 1-4 and hosts Bishop Chatard at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon.

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Westfield dropped a 5-4, eight-inning HCC game at Brownsburg on Tuesday.

The Shamrocks scored two runs in the top of the first inning thanks to Grace Fanelli’s left field home run. Sofia Easterhaus also scored. The Bulldogs got a run back in the bottom of the first, then scored three in the second inning to take a 4-2 lead.

Chloe Tanner answered in the top of the sixth with her own two-run homer; she also got Ava Kainrath home. The score would stay 4-4 until the bottom of the eighth, when Brownsburg won on a walk off base hit.

Tanner pitched the complete game, striking out five.

Westfield is 1-1 in the conference and 5-1 overall. The ‘Rocks play at Greenfield-Central tonight.