HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt High softball team rallied around their most dominant pitcher in a pair of victories, 10-0 and 13-3, over Cherryvale at home Tuesday.
Game one
The Lady Cubs (12-3; 10-1) scored five runs in the second inning and allowed Shelby Shaughnessy to be herself in the pitching circle and not allow a run through six innings for the 10-0 victory.
The Lady Cub hurler improved to 8-1 on the season and only allowed five hits and one walk while striking out a monstrous 10 Cherryvale batters.
Shaughnessy also scored a team-high three runs for Humboldt while Karley Wools and Carsyn Haviland each scored two. Shaughnessy drove in a team-high four runs while Skylar Hottenstein plated three.
Wools, Haviland and Ross each knocked in one run.
Game two
The Lady Cubs jumped all over Cherryvale’s pitching and scored five runs in the first inning, three more in the second and four runs in the sixth.
Humboldt secured the win on a Wools walk-off home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to give the Lady Cubs a 10-run lead and the win.
Laney Hull scored a team-high three runs while Wools, Haviland, Hottenstein, Taevyn Baylor and Chloe Daniels each knocked in two runs. Shaughnessy had a team-high three hits while Wools, Ross and Daniels each went for two hits. Humboldt had 14 hits total.
Shaughnessy pitched again in game two and worked six innings, allowing three runs on seven hits and striking out nine. The three runs from Cherryvale were delivered in the second, third and sixth innings.
Humboldt hosts Osawatomie next Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
