PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg South beginning pitcher Lexi Dellinger and her pitching coach had been wired in as the sophomore pitched a 3-hit comprehensive game shutout through the Patriots’ five- win more than Caldwell Thursday afternoon at Godbey Field.
Dellinger did not let a hit till Caldwell’s leadoff hitter in the leading of the fourth inning and South nursing a 1- lead. She escaped various Caldwell prospective scoring possibilities more than the final 4 innings and the Patriots came alive with 4 insurance coverage runs in the bottom of the sixth inning.
“I was just feeling improved than standard — I warmed up genuinely nicely,” Dellinger mentioned. “(South head coach Tim Burch) study the batters quite nicely. When they had runners on base, I just focused on the subsequent pitch, the subsequent batter and exactly where to hit it.”
South improves to eight-five. Caldwell, which slipped to 9-five, could have lost the solutions of their leading hitter and beginning shortstop when Makayla Mumaw left the game 1 batter into the South half of the second inning.
In the 1st inning, South leadoff hitter Becca Beatty singled to ideal field and took off for second base when the ideal fielder misplayed the base hit. As Beatty slid into second base, Mumaw was spiked and rolled her ideal ankle. Mumaw stayed in the field till the Brylee Hatcher’s leadoff single in the second inning.
Just after preliminary reports, Caldwell coach Doug Pfeffer pointed out there is a possibility Mumaw could have suffered a broken ankle.
“Makayla is my most effective batter — she is batting more than .500,” Pfeffer mentioned. “Hopefully we do not drop her to a broken ankle. It is attainable.”
Caldwell beginning pitcher Madi Mumaw was scheduled for only a couple of innings, but following losing the solutions of Makayla as their back-up pitcher, Madi threw the complete six innings for the Redskins. By means of 5 innings, Madi scattered 5 hits and restricted South to the 1 1st-inning run — an RBI single from Allie Marcum, which scored Beatty from second base.
Madi completed the game with 3 strikeouts and 1 stroll.
“My No. 1 pitcher was on fumes tonight,” Pfeffer added. “We have a game (Friday) and two a lot more on Saturday, so there is no time to lick our wounds. We’re nonetheless No. two in Class 3A in the OVAC, so the season is not lost.
“We didn’t play nicely tonight and we know it. We’ll get back at it and play some a lot more (Friday).”
The South bats caught up with the Caldwell pitcher in the sixth and batted about. The Patriots received RBI singles from Savannah Brief and Marcum and a two-run double from Taylor Lamp. 3 runs scored when two had been out. Caldwell also committed two of its 5 errors in the frame.
“I kept telling the girls we necessary to get Lexi some insurance coverage — do some thing and help her a tiny bit,” Burch mentioned. “Anytime these youngsters come up, 1 by way of nine — the possibilities are endless and they are going to hit. They get started sizing the ball up. Like great teams do, they created adjustments at the plate, talked to 1 a different in the dugout and it worked.”
Functioning with a five- cushion and 3 outs for the win, Dellinger permitted a lead-off double to Sydney Saling then struck out the subsequent 3 batters to safe the win. Coach Burch, who relays the pitch choice in code for all nine fielders to hear, ranked Dellinger’s overall performance as 1 of her two most effective turned in this season.
“Lexi hit her spots genuinely nicely,” Burch mentioned. “Her spin was great, her screwball was moving crazy. And her drop was moving.
“This is leading two amongst her outings this season. For hitting her spots and blanking a great group is a genuinely great factor.”
Make contact with Kerry Patrick at kpatrick@newsandsentinel.com,
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