The REPORTER
The Hamilton Southeastern softball team won its first game at the Terre Haute South Lady Braves Bash Friday night, beating Beech Grove 5-3 in eight innings.
The Hornets scored first with a run in the bottom of the third inning. The Royals tied the game in the top of the fifth when Lani Wyrick doubled Emmy Seifferlein home. In the sixth inning, Alex Kiemeyer doubled in Chloe Smith to put Southeastern up 2-1.
Beech Grove tied the game in the bottom of the sixth, then neither team scored in the seventh inning. The Royals scored three in the top of the eighth: Jenna Chase got home when Kiemeyer was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, Leah Paris scored on Sayla Stock’s sacrifice fly and Reese Garland was brought in by a Makenna Selm single.
Grace Swedarsky stepped up for Southeastern in the bottom of the eighth, scattering three strikeouts around a base hit to clinch the victory. Swedarsky totaled 17 strikeouts and allowed five hits and no walks. Wyrick and Kiemeyer both had two hits.
The Royals are 4-0 and play three games at Terre Haute today, starting with a 9 a.m. contest against Edgewood.
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Carmel fell to Brownsburg 9-6 Friday in its first game at the Castle Invitational.
The Greyhounds scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning. Jayden Kleiner blasted a triple to score Alex Longstreth and Ellie Goddard, then Paxton Law’s right field double brought in Sophie Patterson, who came in to run for Kleiner.
The Bulldogs jumped ahead by scoring four runs in the second inning, then added a run in the top of the fifth for a 5-3 lead. Carmel grabbed the lead back in the bottom of the fifth with three runs: Longstreth led off with a triple, Goddard got a walk, and both Greyhounds scored when Law reached on an error.
Law was brought home by a Mia Fleming single, and Carmel was up 6-5. But Brownsburg tied the game in the top of the sixth with an RBI single, then the Bulldogs added three runs in the seventh to get the win.
Longstreth finished 3-for-3 at the plate, hitting a triple, a double and a single. Fleming had two hits and Law hit one double.
The Greyhounds are 1-4 and play host Castle at 9 a.m. today, followed by an 11 a.m. game with Pike Central.
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Fishers dropped a 17-4, five inning game to Penn on Friday at the Castle Invitational.
The Kingsmen led from the start, scoring five runs in the top of the first inning. The Tigers got three runs back in the bottom of the first: Jenna Grubb scored the first run on a passed ball, then Hailey Trueblood and Kendall Jordan got home on a wild pitch later in the inning. Liv McNall singled in Taylor Duplessis in the fifth inning.
Fishers is 2-2 and plays three more games today at Castle, starting with Tecumseh at 10 a.m.