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Fantastic game. Murray is the real deal. Our girls played with such focus and poise this weekend. Congrats to NCC as well! Basketball is alive and well in Northern KY.

9-1 after beating Allen Co. today, again, without Deja Turner.

HC is 8-1 with wins over Lex Lafayette and Sacred Heart. The lone loss coming last night against a pretty good shooting East Carter team. HC lead by 12 in the 2nd half but fell apart late. That was with their best player sitting the entire game and various other injuries and illnesses. To be fair, I believe EC had a starter out as well.

updates from today's action?

#32 is the real deal.

Turner has a sprained ankle... will probably sit today as well. I think it was the right decision to sit her... let's get 100% healthy.

FYI...Looks like JMU is playing in the Lexington Regional with UK....

HOLY CROSS 15, BELLEVUE 0: Becca Ruschel pitched her first varsity no-hitter, and Holy Cross made it back to the All "A" regional semifinals for the second year in a row with the 15-0 mercy-rule win over the Tigers. Ruschel, who shut down Bellevue with fastballs, curves and a drop-ball, struck out six. She was 2-for-2 at the plate with two RBI. The Indians (5-7) scored early and often, with a nine-run first inning against the Tigers (1-5). Courtney Turner's bases-loaded triple made it 9-0. Holy Cross added two runs in the second, one in the third and three in the fourth. Lauren Newton's two-run single in the bottom of the fourth set the final score and ended it. Turner went 2-for-3 with four RBI. Anna Clements drove in two runs for the Indians. Bellevue 000 0 -- 0 - 0 - 5 Holy Cross 921 3 -- 15 - 8 - 1 WP: Ruschel (2-3) 6 K's. LP: Ross. Leaders: H-Turner 2-3, 3B, 4 RBI; Ruschel 2-2, 2 RBI; Clements 2 RBI; Newton 2 RBI. Records: H 5-7, B 1-5.

Are those fields really going to be playable tomorrow after all of this rain?

Field 3 (back field) was the only one ready for play this afternoon. My understanding was that they expected to be about an hour or so behind on the other fields.

Uncle Pete tourney at Softball City, Taylor Mill, KY Campbell County took advantage of a couple errors and jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead. Holy Cross bounced back in their half of the first, cutting the lead to 3-2 on a ground-out by Clement, but could get no closer. Becca Ruschell pitched well in defeat. Freshman Courtney Turner went 3-3 with a double and an RBI. Shortstop Alehia Tucker made a fine play at short, smothering a hard hit ball on her knees and bouncing up to throw the runner out by a 1/2 step.

Six unearned runs in the 1st inning led to the 'Stangs easy 11-1 win in 5 innings Thursday night in Alexandria. The Indians only run came in the top of the first. Tucker led off with a double and promptly scored on a throwing error on a ground ball by the 2-hitter Veronica Specht. Courtney Turner followed with a walk but Brossart got out of the inning with no further damage. Pretty uneventful from there. Very sloppy game defensively by the young Indians. Clement took the loss. Her record falls to 1-2 on the year.

I'll ask about it. The catchers on both teams were sitting a little too close to the batter. I did notice that as well. The umps were telling them to move back a bit all night.

Seems as if that would be a little harder to follow for someone only interested in how a particular team is doing...but as you wish. I'll create a new thread for each game going forward.

Scott 3 HC 10 The Lady Indians picked up their first win of the season down at the Frozen Tundra (Bowman Field) tonight. Freshman Alehia Tucker hit an inside the park HR on a rocket past the center fielder and sophomore Ashley Meeks tripled to right with the bases loaded to fuel the offense. Anna Clement picked up the win, going the distance.

Dixie Heights 11 HC 1 Freshmen Veronica Specht and Courtney Turner each had two hits. Anna Clement doubled home Turner with the only run of the game as the Indians dropped to 0-2. The score is a little misleading. It was a 3-1 game heading to the 6th. Becca Ruschel started the game but was lifted after 1-2/3 innings. The Colonels busted the game open with 1 run in the 6th and 7 more in the 7th. The 7-run 7th was aided by a couple of hit batsmen (uh, batswomen) and a string of errors and missed cut-offs. Again, just a very, very young team learning on the fly. Chafin, who had been out with a wrist injury was back behind the plate and made a couple of nice plays with the glove.

That's the transfer from Holmes...she played 3rd tonight. She was catching the other day since our normal catcher was injured.

SK is going to have a long year, but it was nice being competitive in the first game out of the gate.

HC lost 7-4 in extra innings to Simon Kenton tonight. Anna Clement went the distance and took a tough loss. She pitched really, really well. I can only remember her walking maybe 1 or 2 batters and was in complete command most of the game. HC took the lead in the bottom of the 1st. Courtney Turner collected the first hit of the year for the Indians, stole 2nd and scored on a ground-out by Clement. SK tied it in the third and took the lead 3-1 in the fifth on a 2-out, 2-run bloop single that dropped in front of the right fielder. Turner tied it again in the 6th with a sac fly to center. Each team then took turns missing opportunities. Clement pitched out of a bases loaded, one out jam in the 7th. HC then left the winnng run on base in the bottom half of the 7th. SK broke it open in the 8th to secure the win. At Beechwood tomorrow...

HC lost 7-4 in 8 innings to Simon Kenton tonight.

Congrats!!!

Pretty fair assessment by the OP....pitching will be a key factor as always. Not much margain for error. They lost a ton of experience and leadership. I've not been around the team much yet this year so I'm not as familiar with the new faces coming in. I do know that there are a lot of young players joining the team so it bodes well for the future. From what I do know... I would agree that Turner will likely start at SS, although circumstances may dictate that she move around a bit. We'll see. She has a good glove and arm. No one's really worked a lot with her on footwork at SS so her range is a little suspect, but she will make plays on balls hit at her. Offensively, the team may struggle. Just not enough up and down the order to consistently score runs. The transfer from Holmes, Tucker (?) is a freshmen this year and I don't believe will have to sit out. I've not seen her play but she is a good athlete and will surely help. Small, quick.. probably a slap hitter... could see her leading off. I don't believe Stanley is able to play. She's had a lot of injuries and I believe was advised to sit out. Gabbard's not returning either.... Those two would have added some nice pop in the lineup. Turner has shown some flashes at the plate... actually made pretty good progress last year but is still probably a year or two away from consistently being able to put up the numbers they will need. Should be fun to watch them grow as a team though.