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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
North Montgomery
High School junior Brittney Asbury went 4-for-4 and had two RBI and two runs
scored. |
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| Softball
Tuesday
IHSAA
Southmont Sectional
At Southmont HS
First round
Game
2
North Montgomery 9, Lebanon 5
Lebanon 103 001 0 – 5 12
2
North Montgomery 010 305 X – 9 12 6
WP: Tori Harmon NM. LP:
Cassie Perras L.
Lebanon runs scored: Kalyn Harker, Raylee Stewart,
Ashley Holmes, Sydney Sloan, Cassie Perras
North Montgomery runs scored:
Alli Thompson 2, Brittany Asbury 2, Bertie Kirkpatrick, Shelby Snellenbarger,
Julia Pierce, Jessica Evans, Breannah Asbury
Lebanon RBI: Sydney
Sloan
North Montgomery RBI: Brittney Asbury 2, Bertie Kirkpatrick, Ashley
Buis, Alli Thompson, Shelby Snellenbarger
Lebanon hits: Raylee Stewart 3,
Kalyn Harker 2, Ashley Holmes, Sydney Sloan, Kelsey Wolfe, Karson McCollum,
Cassie Perras
North Montgomery hits: Brittney Asbury 4, Ashley Buis 2,
Alli Thompson 2, Shelby Snellenbarger, Caitlin Smith, Jessica Evans, Breannah
Asbury
3B: Brittney Asbury NM
2B: Kelsey Wolfe L, Cassie Perras L,
Ashley Holmes L
LOB: Lebanon 7, North Montgomery 5
Records: North
Montgomery 9-14, Lebanon 12-12
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Reprinted Courtesy of:
Paper of Montgomery County
thepaper24-7.com
By Cale
Stephens
For
The Paper
NEW
MARKET – North Montgomery High School’s softball team overcame some major
defensive woes to earn an Indiana High School Athletic Association Southmont
Sectional win.
The Chargers belted out 12 hits and scored five runs in
the bottom of the sixth inning in a 9-5 win over Sagamore Athletic Conference
foe Lebanon.
North Montgomery (9-14) advances to play county- and
conference rival Crawfordsville (25-2) in today’s first sectional semifinal.
Athenians’ sophomore pitcher Chelsea Day threw a no-hitter in an 11-0
five-inning win against county- and conference rival Southmont.
North
Montgomery (9-14) tied the game 5-5 in the bottom half of the sixth inning when
the Chargers loaded the bases with one out. North Montgomery coach Julie
Seagraves then sent in a pinch-hitter, freshman Bertie Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick
walked on five pitches and drove in the winning run in her first varsity
at-bat.
“(Lebanon’s) starting pitcher had been injured. So, they were
throwing their (junior varsity) starter,” Seagraves said. “Bertie hit very well
against her in the (junior varsity) game. I figured this was the perfect
opportunity to see what she’s got.”
The Chargers capped their scoring on
junior Brittney Asbury’s two-run triple. Asbury hung the star on a great day at
the plate. She went 4-for-4, scored two runs and batted in two more.
“I
was super confident,” Asbury said. “I was trying to aim for right-center. But it
kept going to right. It worked. Before the game we knew we would be facing the
(junior varsity) pitcher. But we also knew we had to stay on it. When she
pitched it right down the middle, I was like, ‘hey! I’ll take it.'”
North
Montgomery’s two, three, and four hitters – senior Ashley Buis, junior Alli
Thompson, and Asbury – combined for eight of the Chargers’ 12 hits and four of
their nine runs.
However, the Chargers’ defense did not show up. Lebanon
(12-12) took advantage of three North Montgomery errors in the third inning to
score three runs and take a 4-1 lead.
In all, the Chargers committed six
errors.
“I was not happy with our defensive play,” Seagraves said.
“Defense has been our struggle all year. No matter what we didn’t give up and
found a way to get hits. That’s been the story all year for us. Mistakes we make
defensively, we’ll find a way to make up for it on the offensive end. If it’s a
high scoring game, it’s a high scoring game – as long as we’re on
top.”
North Montgomery advances in the sectional for the first time with
Seagraves as a coach.
“We got all of our errors out of the way,”
Seagraves said. “We were so close last time we faced (Crawfordsville). Our girls
are looking forward to it. Crawfordsville will be just as excited to play North
(Montgomery). Hopefully, we’ve gotten all of our jitters or whatever out of the
way.”
Asbury mirrored her coach’s comments.
“I’m excited,” she
said. “I’m a little more confident now that we’ve seen them. I know we can beat
them if we are all playing together and have our bats going |
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