| Register/Jocelyn Sheets Iola High’s Caitlyn Callaway swings at a pitch during Tuesday’s second game against Chanute in junior varsity action. Each team won a game by the score of 5-4. |
Iola High’s Fillies avoided a sweep by Chanute High’s Blue Comets in junior varsity softball play here Tuesday.
After losing the first game 5-4, the Fillies rallied to win the second game at Riverside Park. Iola led 3-1 after three innings but Chanute tied the game with two runs in the fourth.
Neither team scored in the fifth to force extra innings. The Blue Comets produced a go-ahead run in the top of the sixth.
Emily Ware drew a walk followed by Holly Schomaker reaching base on an error. Kayla Knavel walked to load the bases.
After two strikeouts, Lauren Toney was patient and walked to force in the tying run. Libby Shay did the same and Schomaker scored the winning run, 5-4.
“The girls didn’t give up when they had two outs against them,” said Casey Greenwood, IHS assistant coach.
Breail Thompson was the winning pitcher. She gave up four hits, walked three and struck out four batters. Toney had a single and scor-ed two runs.
Shay tripled in the third and stole home.
In the first game, Iola had five hits. The Fillies led 2-1 after three innings.
In the first, Toney singled, stole second and moved up as Shay reached on an error. A one-out groundout by B. Thompson drove in the run.
Chanute tied the game in the top of the third. Iola got a two-out double by Caitlyn Callaway in its half of the inning. Callaway moved all the way around on two passed balls.
Chanute scored four runs in the fourth to lead 5-2. Iola mounted a comeback in the fifth.
Schomaker singled with one gone and moved to second on a passed ball. Shay delivered an RBI single and came all the way home because of a Chanute error in the outfield. But Iola’s rally stopped there.
B. Thompson took the loss on the mound. She allowed three hits and four walks and struck out five.
K. Thompson had a triple and Callaway hit a double. Toney, Shay and Schomaker each had a single.
The Fillies junior varsity is 2-2 on the season. It hosts Independence Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in Riverside Park.
