Mahomet-Seymour’s High-Scoring Softball Game Ends in Heartbreak with 24-23 Loss to Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond
By FRED KRONER
Mahomet-Seymour’s softball team scored a season-high 23 runs on Saturday (March 16), but needed two dozen runs to win the game and lost a 24-23 decision on the road to Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond.
A-L/A-H scored one run in the bottom of the seventh inning to pull out the victory.
Madeleine Cortez, who was 4-for-4 and pounded two home runs, scored five runs for the Bulldogs.
Teammates who tallied three runs were Presley Cox, Brooklyn Dyer and Madelyn Logsdon.
Brooke Hartman, Ava Henderson, Lilly Jones and Peyton Shelmadine crossed home plate two times each. Addison Schulze scored one run.
Cortez and Henderson both ripped four hits. Rio Casillas, Dyer, Hartman and Jones finished with two hits apiece. Cox and Logsdon ended with one hit apiece.
Dyer and Logsdon hammered home runs.
Other RBI leaders, besides Cortez with four for M-S, were Dyer (three), Hartman (three), Henderson (two), Logsdon (two), Casillas (one), Cox (one) and Jones (one).
Henderson pitched 2 1/3 innings and struck out five hitters. Katherine Severns worked 3 1/3 innings and had one strikeout. Schulze pitched 2/3 of an innings and also fanned one batter.
M-S (0-3) returns to action on Saturday (March 23) at home with a doubleheader against Galesburg.
