Greyhound softball takes second game from Ravens

For just the second time this season, Fort Scott Community College's softball team lost rhe first game of a doubleheader but bounced back to win the second. This happened Tuesday at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex against Coffeyville in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division action.

The visiting Red Ravens held off the Greyhounds to win the opener 3-2. The 'Hounds took the second game, 4-0. The only other time this season Fort Scott lost the first game and won the second was back on March 13, when FSCC lost to North Iowa Area in the opener 7-3 and won the second game 8-7.

Coffeyville (6-16 East, 10-16 Region VI, 15-26 overall) scored one run in the fifth inning on an error, a single and a passed ball, all with 2 out. Mikayla Zielinkski hit a solo home run leading off the sixth to make it 2-0. Sarah Morrison scored later in the inning on a sacrifice fly.

Fort Scott (5-16, 9-16, 21-25) had two runners on with one out in the sixth but couldn't get either home. Kalee Ewbank doubled leading off the bottom of the seventh and K.C. Beardsley followed with a single to left. Ewbank scored on a groundout and Beardsley scored on Alex Perez's single. But Coffeyville pitcher Tara Malaske (4-2) got a pop-up and a strikeout to end the game.

Beardsley was 2 for 3 for the Greyhounds. Haley Martin went 3 for 3 for Coffeyville.

Kaylee Bart (11-9) allowed 2 earned runs on 9 hits and a walk with 5 strikeouts.

Fort Scott scored twice in the bottom of the first inning of game two. Christa Merriman singled to start things off. Alex Yeoman sacrificed and Merriman scored on Ewbank's 2-out single to right. Beardsley was hit by a pitch. Gross singled to left to plate Ewbank.

The other 2 runs went on the board in the fifth. Ewbank singled to left leading off the inning. Then Julie Gross singled with one out. A passed ball followed by Perez's 2-out single to right brought both runners home.

Ewbank was 3 for 4 at the plate while Merriman, Gross and Yeoman each had 2 hits. Merriman (8-10) also pitched a 5-hit shutout with one walk and one strikeout.

Fort Scott will resume a suspended game with Neosho County at 2 p.m. Thursday at the complex.

Game One

Fort Scott.......... 000 000 2 -- 2 6 1

WP -- Malaske (4-2). LP -- Bart (11-9).

HR -- Coffeyville: Zielinski (4, 6th inn., none on, none out)

Game Two

Fort Scott.......... 200 020 x -- 4 10 2

WP -- Merriman (8-10). LP -- Downing (6-11).

HR -- None.