The Allen softball team was taken down by No. 19 Indian Hills at home on Tuesday afternoon, 13-2.
The Warriors’ offensive firepower and tough and efficient pitching were enough to down the Lady Red Devils who didn’t score until the bottom of the fifth. A couple of Allen pitchers also served up a home run each.
The Lady Red Devils (6-9) went down early when the Warriors plated three runs in the first inning off Allen starting pitcher MaKayla McGinnis. McGinnis worked four innings, allowing eight runs on nine hits, including a homerun to Destiny Lewis.
Indian Hills brought home three more runs in the top of the third inning before a couple of more runs scored in the fourth for an 8-0 lead. Allen scored a run in the bottom of the fifth following another Indian Hills run for a 9-2 deficit heading to the sixth.
“We play tough teams like this in hopes that it prepares us for conference,” said Allen head coach Nicole Peters. “Indian Hills was 19th so we knew this would be a hard game.”
Allen pitcher Brooklyn Ellis allowed four more runs to score in the top of the sixth including a Julia Kwakernaak homer for a big 13-2 advantage.
Brooklyn Goehring and Bailey Cravens each knocked home a run in the fifth inning, the only inning the Lady Devils came alive at the plate.
“At any point a game can change,” Peters said. “We were making hard contact. We had a few plays defensively that let them go ahead so those few key plays put us down.”
Lacey Stamper had the only multi-hit game for Allen while Robin Todd, Madisyn Havenstein, Haley Gedrose and Goehring each collected one hit.
Ellis replaced McGinnis on the mound after the fourth inning and threw two innings, allowing five runs on six hits and striking out one Warrior.
The Lady Red Devils traveled to Neosho to play Des Moines Area Community College on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Results were not available at the time of publication.
