By Fred Kroner
Ashley Campbell’s one-out single in the bottom of the ninth on Thursday (May 20) drove in Kenadi Granadino with the walk-off run that ended a scoreless softball duel between M-S and Teutopolis.
Campbell’s hit was her second of the game. She was the lone Bulldog with more than one hit.
Karley Yergler pitched all nine innings for M-S to earn the win in the 1-0 decision. She yielded three hits, walked no one and struck out 10.
On Saturday (May 22), M-S split a doubleheader at home with Lincoln, winning the opener 3-0 thanks to a three-run fifth inning and suffering a 6-5 eight-inning loss in the nightcap.
Sydney McKinney, Jadyn Hannah and Aubrie Shore scored the Bulldogs’ first-game runs.
M-S, which was limited to five hits, had Shore and Yergler drive in runs.
Yergler (8-5) pitched a three-hit shutout, walking no one and striking out 14.
In Yergler’s last eight appearances, covering 46 innings, she has walked three batters and struck out 76. The shutout was her sixth of the season.
In the second game, Yergler slugged her team-best 13th home run. She had two hits as did Shore, Granadino, Campbell and Maddie Cortez.
M-S carried a 4-0 lead into the seventh inning, but the Railsplitters tallied five runs. Abigail Akers pitched all eight innings for the Bulldogs. She walked no one and fanned two batters.
M-S (12-7) returns to action on Tuesday (May 25) with a doubleheader at Effingham.
