Hatchets Advance to Sectional Championship, S. Central Falls

Bean allowed no base runners until hitting two batters with pitches back-to-back in the fourth inning. She had struck out the first 10 batters. 

Bean maintained a no-hitter until the seventh inning when she gave up a clean base hit to left by Edwards County pitcher Ava Greathouse.

Along the way, Bean recorded 15 strikeouts. She had fanned 15 in a 10-inning win in the championship of the Oblong Regional 3-2 on Monday afternoon. That's 30 strikeouts in 17 innings over two days.

Meanwhile, the Hatchets got Bean a lead in the first inning, with Bean helping. Ella Kinkelaar led off the bottom of the first with a single. One out later, a sacrifice fly by Bean brought Kinkelaar home to make it 1-0.

The Hatchets added a run in the second when Ava Richards led off with a single. Sam Hayes forced Richards, but made her way around the bases and scored on a base hit by Alaira Friese.

Windsor/Stew-Stras sealed the deal with a three-run sixth inning featuring a lead-off single by Maddy Pfeiffer. Two outs later, a double by Gabby Vonderheide, a single by Friese, and a single by Natalie Hayes produced the last three runs.

The Hatchets will take on Casey-Westfield Friday at 4:30pm at Casey for the sectional championship. The game can be heard on KJ Country 102.3. 

In the opening contest, South Central saw its season come to a close with an 8-0 loss to Casey-Westfield.

The Warriors banged out 11 hits in the contest while holding the usually hot-hitting Cougars to five.

Casey-Westifled held a 1-0 lead after three innings then scored one in the fourth and one in the sixth around five in the fifth.

Kennedy Repp led the way for the Warriors with two singles, a double and an RBI. Maya Redman had two singles and drove in a run while Tristan Ring had a single, double and two RBI. Paige Cutright added a single and two RBI and Addie Brasier a single and an RBI. Kam Smith added two singles.

Laney Webster had the lone extra base hit for the Cougars with a double. South Central ends the season with a 24-11 record.

 Class 1A Casey-Westfield Sectional

 Game One

Casey-Westfield               001    151    0    --    8-11-0

South Central                   000    000    0    --    0-  5-0

WP -- Cutright. LP -- T. Webster.

Casey-Westfield -- Repp, 2 singles, double, 1 RBI; Redman, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Mason, 1 RBI: Cutright, single, 2 RBI; Smith, 2 singles; Ring, single, double, 2 RBI; Brasier, single, 1 RBI

South Central -- T. Webster, single; L. Webster, double; Garrett, single; Malone, single; Ka. Swift, single

Game Two

Edwards Co.               000    000    0    --    0-1-1

WSS                           110    003    x    --    5-8-0

WP -- Bean. LP -- Greathouse.

Edwards County -- Greathouse, single

Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg -- Kinkelaar, single; N. Hayes, single, double, 1 RBI; Bean, 1 RBI; Pfeiffer, single; Richards, single; Vonderheide double, 1 RBI; Friese, 2 singles, 2 RBI