Photos of the games located at wncccougars@smugmug.comThe Western Nebraska Community College and Chadron State College softball teams opened the fall season with impressive wins in the first day of the WNCC Fall Classic at Volunteer Field.
The Eagles opened the tournament with an exciting win against WNCC, topping the hosts 2-1. Chadron’s Cassie Humphrey picked up the win in the circle, tossing a six-hitter while striking out five and walking two.
Chadron State followed that contest up by falling to North Platte Community College 7-5 before coming back to blank McCook Community College 8-0.
WNCC picked up their first win of the fall campaign with a 3-1 win over North Platte as Stephanie Townsend picked up the win, allowing two hits and striking out three. The other game of the tournament saw North Platte drop McCook 15-0.
Action continues Sunday in the tournament with six games. WNCC starts the day by facing North Platte at 9 a.m. followed by the University of Wyoming facing McCook at 10:45 a.m. The rest of the schedule sees North Platte facing Wyoming at 12:30 p.m., North Platte battling Chadron State at 2:15 p.m., WNCC meeting North Platte at 4 p.m., and Chadron State and Wyoming tangling at 5:45 p.m.
In the opener, CSC struck first. Humphrey led off the first by reaching on an error and scored on a 2-out single by Stephanie Hillman for the 1-0 lead.
The score stayed deadlocked until the sixth inning when WNCC finally scratched across a run. Tonya Atencio started the inning with a single to left field. Atencio then scored on a two-out double by Adena Hagen to tie the score.
Chadron State answered back in the bottom of the sixth. Allison Hendrickson led off the inning by drawing a walk and scored on a one-out double by Hilman for the 2-1 lead.
The Cougars had an opportunity to tie the game in the seventh as Jordan Schoepflin started things with a pinch-hit single. WNCC couldn’t get the tying run in as Humphrey got the next three batters to ground out and fly out for the win.
Taylor Anderson took the loss for WNCC despite throwing six strong innings. Anderson, the freshman from Riverton, Utah, allowed five hits while striking out two.
Chadron State was paced offensively by Hillman, who had a 2-for-3 game with a double and two RBIs. Scottsbluff’s DeNae Quijas finished the game 1-for-1 with a double and a walk, while Hillman had three walks and a run scored.
WNCC was paced by Schoepflin with a 1-for-1 game. Hagen had the only extra base hit for the Cougars as the sophomore went 1-for-2 with a double and a RBI. Also collecting singles for WNCC were Megan Burditt, Katie Groves, Stephanie Townsend, and Tonya Atencio.
WNCC picked up their first win of the fall season against North Platte as Townsend picked up the win, going six innings and tossing a 2-hitter. Townsend struck out three in the win.
North Platte scored first, scoring a single run in the fourth. WNCC came right back by scoring twice in the bottom of the frame. Katie Hill led off by reaching on an error. Schoepflin followed with a single to center field. Groves came through scoring Hill and Alllie Alverson with a double to right field. WNCC added an insurance run in the sixth as Schoepflin singled in Hagen.
Schoepflin paced the Cougars with a 2-for-3 game with a run scored and RBI. Groves went 2-for-2 with a double and two RBIs. Glaze, Hill and Atencio also had base hits for the Cougars.
In Chadron’s other two contests, they lost a heartbreaker to North Platte 7-5. North Platte held a 5-2 lead after four innings before the Eagles sliced the lead to 5-4, but couldn’t get any closer.
Christina Lewis took the loss in the circle for the Eagles.
Offensively, Kayln Land had a double and two runs scored, while Humphrey had two doubles. Also, Jamie Mazankowski went 1-for-3, Lynette Ebert went 1-for-1 with two runs scored, and Jonella Yrkoski had a run-scoring double.
Chadron came back to drop McCook Community College 8-0 as the Eagles pounded out 14 hits. Ebert finished the game with a double and o RB, while Blair McEndaffer had a double, and two RBIs. Chadron’s Nikki Ritzen, a freshman, paced the team with a 3-for-3 game with two runs scored and a RBI.
The big blast of the game was turned in by North Platte freshman Brittany DeBord, who had a fourth-inning solo home run.
Eagle senior Amanda Brown picked up the win in the circle.
McCook
Chadron State 300 5 – 8 14 1
WP – Brown; 2B – Ebert, McEndaffer; HR – DeBord.
Chadron State 001 121 – 5 6 3
North Platte 112 12x – 7 10 3
LP – Lewis; 2B – Land, Humphrey 2, Yrkoski.
WNCC 000 001 0 – 1 6 1
Chadron State 100 001 x – 2 5 0
WP – Humphrey, LP – Anderson; 2B – WNCC (Hagen), CSC (Hillman, Quijas).
North Platte 000 100 – 1 2 1
WNCC
WP – Townsend; 2B—Groves.
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