Simon Kenton 9 Pendleton County 7 (8 Innings)

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Final

Will give report tomorrow!

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SK improves to 4-1 with an exciting 9 to 7 extra inning win versus a top 25 team in the state,  Pendleton County!

SK got on the board early, top of 1 Alexis Baker drew a walk, followed by a Larkin Mitchell single and another walk to Emilie Young and the bases were loaded with no one out. After a K, Hannah Schwier had an RBI fielder's choice to put SK up 1-0. PC tied the game in the bottom of the 2nd after Maddie Musk & Hannah Spalding had back to back singles, Sydney Dalton had an RBI fielder's choice. SK went back on top in the 3rd when Mitchell drew a walk, stole 2nd base, advanced to 3rd on a Landry Dance single, then scored on another RBI fielder's choice by Schwier. In the 4th SK added on to the lead after Jada Johnson singled, Baker hit into a fielder's choice, Mitchell walked, Young had an RBI single scoring Baker, then Mitchell advanced home on a passed ball giving the Pioneers a 4 to 1 lead. PC scored after Musk walked, SK then had an error advancing Musk to 3rd base, she then scored on a fielder's choice cutting the lead to 4 to 2. In the 6th SK added a run after a Mitchell single, then a Young double, Dance hand an RBI single scoring Mitchell increasing SK's lead to 5 to 2. In the bottom of the 7th PC would not go away, after a lead off line out to Adreena Barton at 1st base, Logan Cooper and Madison Verst both singled bringing Reagan Carlisle to the plate. Carlisle is a D1 commit to NKU and she proceeded to hit a missile that cleared the right field fence for a 3 run home run to tie the game at 5-5. After a ground out to short, Musk hit a double to right field putting the winning run on 2nd base. The next batter Spaulding hit a sharp ground ball into the 4 hole. Larkin Mitchell made a diving catch and threw Spaulding out at 1st base on a bang bang play to end the 7th. In the 8th SK started off with a runner put on 2nd base per rule, Kaylee Korros. Korros advanced to 3rd on a sac bunt by Jada Johnson. After a Baker pop out SK had two outs, one on and no runs in. Mitchell walked, Emilie Young hit a fly ball into CF that appeared would end the inning. The CF misplayed the ball committing an error and both Korros and Mitchell scored. Dance advanced to 1st base on a strike 3 dropped ball, then courtesy runners Taylor Jones and Madeline Johnson both scored on a Schwier double. In the bottom of the 8th PC scored 2 runs and had runners on 2nd and 3rd with Carlisle up to bat, with a full count and 2 out, Dance struck out Carlise to end the game! 

Larkin Mitchell 3 for 3, 2 BB, 4 Runs, 2 SB
Emilie Young 3 for 4 & 3 RBIs
Dance 2 for 5, RBI
Schwier 2B, 4 RBIs 
Jayden Jones got her first career varsity hit!

Dance pitched all 8 inning giving up 7 runs (5 earned) 8 hits and 8 K's

Next Up: Western Hills (Frankfort, KY) today at 6pm. 

JV1 also played at PC last night winning 9 to 5. Everyone was hitting and Madeline Johnson hit her first ever over the fence home run in the game. 

JV2 plays tomorrow at home versus Cooper in a double header. It will be JV2 first game of the year. Start time is 5:30pm