Notre Dame 6 Newport Central Catholic 2 (9th Region Tourney)

[Lawnboy13]

The 2015 Breds season comes to an end today, as they fall to the Pandas of Notre Dame 6-2. Things looked real promising from the outset as 4 of the first 7 batters had hard base hits, but Haylee Smith and her defense took over from there. Free base runners and extra outs hurt the Breds in this one.

 

NewCath 1st - FO9, Kohls single to left, Meyers single to left-center, Schreiber single to left, K, Martini reaches on E6 (on the bad throw Kohls & Meyers score, Schreiber out 1-2).

Notre Dame 1st - K, FO9, Smith walks, K.

 

NewCath 2nd - Bin doubles to right-center, Breen Sac-Bunt 5-3, K, PO2.

Notre Dame 2nd - E. Huston walks, A. Huston walks, Stephenson Sac-Bunt 2-4, Ladayni reaches on E4 (the Huston Twins score), FO9, K.

 

NewCath 3rd - LO6 (Kohls hit an absolute "laserbeam"), PO1, FO7.

Notre Dame 3rd - Baugh doubles off the fence in center, GO4-3, Miller RBI single right-center, K, GO6-3.

 

NewCath 4th - K, GO1-3, GO4-3.

Notre Dame 4th - FO9, Ladanyi reaches on E6, Meier singles to rightRadford HBP, Baugh RBI walk, Smith RBI single to SS, Miller RBI HBP, LO6 (Smith doubled up 6-4).

 

NewCath 5th - K, K, GO6-3.

Notre Dame 5th - K, Stephenson singles to left, FC-6 (Stephenson out 6-4), K.

 

NewCath 6th - PO6, FO9, GO5-3.

Notre Dame 6th - Radford walks, FC1 (Radford out 1-6), FO8, Miller walks, K.

 

NewCath 7th - FO7, K, Bin reaches on E6, K.

 

NewCath.....2-0-0-0-0-0-0---2-4-2

Notre Dame 0-2-1-3-0-0-x---6-4-2

 

Haley Meyers 7K's

Haylee Smith 7K's

 

The Breds say Goodbye to 4-year varsity starters Kristen Schreiber, Casey Kohls, Loren Zimmerman, Michaela Ware, & 3-year varsity starter Morgan Martini, as they played their final game in Blue 'n Gold........these young ladies were extremely talented and will be missed.

[doubledeuce]

Congrats to both teams for making it to Regionals!

 

 

Great job NDA!

 

 

Panda Power!!!

[SoftballFan14]

Nice play by Ware to double up the big girl!! Going to miss watching her play.

[PsalmsG]

The Notre Dame Pandas happened to be the opponent three years ago when the Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds last won a 9th Region Softball Tournament game at Northern Kentucky University.

 

NewCath beat Notre Dame, 9-4 in the region quarterfinals that year before losing 10-1 to Conner in the semifinals. The 2012 season also happened to be the last year NewCath won 20 games in a season entering this year.

 

NewCath hit the 20-win plateau this season, but could not pull off its first 9th Region Tournament win since 2012. The Pandas (24-6 overall) erased an early NewCath (20-11) lead scoring six in a row to win 6-2 and advance to the region semifinals for the third straight year at the same location.

 

"We played okay. We just have a blow-up inning all the time," said Denny Barnes, NewCath Head Coach. "They're just better than us."

 

Notre Dame outhit NewCath just 6-5. But the Pandas took advantage of six walks and two hit batters.

 

The Thoroughbreds had just one runner after the second inning. That came in the seventh inning when Kennedy Bin reached on an error.

 

Both pitchers went the distance. Notre Dame senior Haylee Smith struck out seven and walked none while NewCath sophomore Haley Meyers also struck out seven.

 

Neither team saw one batter record more than one hit. But Bin and Notre Dame's Kennedy Baugh had doubles. Gabby Miller and Cori Ladanyi had two RBI each for the Pandas.

 

The Thoroughbreds scored twice in the first inning. Casey Kohls, Meyers and Kristen Schreiber recorded three straight singles to load the bases. With two out, Morgan Martini singled to score Kohls. Meyers then came home on an error before Schreiber was thrown out trying to score.

 

NewCath held the lead into the second inning. With one out, Ladanyi hit a single to right just out of the reach of the Thoroughbred defense to score sisters Erica and Angela Huston to tie the game.

 

The Thoroughbreds took the lad for good in the third. Baugh doubled, moved to third when Smith grounded out and scored when Miller singled. The Pandas added three more in the fourth to make the final score.

 

NewCath graduates five seniors from the squad. All five start and make up five of the first six batters. They are shorstop Michaela Ware, Kohls, Schreiber, third baseman Loren Zimmerman and Martini.

 

"It's not easy having five seniors on a team because you have five egos," Barnes said. "They've done a great job keeping their egos in check this year. I was really proud of the seniors. They've done a wonderful job and I'm going to miss them."

 

The seniors helped NewCath to 36th District titles as freshmen and sophomores in addition to four appearances in the region tournament. NewCath also won the All "A" 9th Region title in 2014.

 

Fort Thomas Matters Sports: Notre Dame ends NewCath softball season

[THUNDERBIRDS]

The Notre Dame Pandas happened to be the opponent three years ago when the Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds last won a 9th Region Softball Tournament game at Northern Kentucky University.

 

NewCath beat Notre Dame, 9-4 in the region quarterfinals that year before losing 10-1 to Conner in the semifinals. The 2012 season also happened to be the last year NewCath won 20 games in a season entering this year.

 

NewCath hit the 20-win plateau this season, but could not pull off its first 9th Region Tournament win since 2012. The Pandas (24-6 overall) erased an early NewCath (20-11) lead scoring six in a row to win 6-2 and advance to the region semifinals for the third straight year at the same location.

 

"We played okay. We just have a blow-up inning all the time," said Denny Barnes, NewCath Head Coach. "They're just better than us."

 

Notre Dame outhit NewCath just 6-5. But the Pandas took advantage of six walks and two hit batters.

 

The Thoroughbreds had just one runner after the second inning. That came in the seventh inning when Kennedy Bin reached on an error.

 

Both pitchers went the distance. Notre Dame senior Haylee Smith struck out seven and walked none while NewCath sophomore Haley Meyers also struck out seven.

 

Neither team saw one batter record more than one hit. But Bin and Notre Dame's Kennedy Baugh had doubles. Gabby Miller and Cori Ladanyi had two RBI each for the Pandas.

 

The Thoroughbreds scored twice in the first inning. Casey Kohls, Meyers and Kristen Schreiber recorded three straight singles to load the bases. With two out, Morgan Martini singled to score Kohls. Meyers then came home on an error before Schreiber was thrown out trying to score.

 

NewCath held the lead into the second inning. With one out, Ladanyi hit a single to right just out of the reach of the Thoroughbred defense to score sisters Erica and Angela Huston to tie the game.

 

The Thoroughbreds took the lad for good in the third. Baugh doubled, moved to third when Smith grounded out and scored when Miller singled. The Pandas added three more in the fourth to make the final score.

 

NewCath graduates five seniors from the squad. All five start and make up five of the first six batters. They are shorstop Michaela Ware, Kohls, Schreiber, third baseman Loren Zimmerman and Martini.

 

"It's not easy having five seniors on a team because you have five egos," Barnes said. "They've done a great job keeping their egos in check this year. I was really proud of the seniors. They've done a wonderful job and I'm going to miss them."

 

The seniors helped NewCath to 36th District titles as freshmen and sophomores in addition to four appearances in the region tournament. NewCath also won the All "A" 9th Region title in 2014.

 

Fort Thomas Matters Sports: Notre Dame ends NewCath softball season

 

Very nice write Mike......