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Clover softball splits games with Cascade
CLOVERDALE -- Cloverdale's softball team took a come-from-behind win at home Monday against conference rival Cascade but it couldn't' pick up the sweep when it visited the Cadets Tuesday. After winning game one 5-4, it dropped game two 7-5.
After two homers put Cascade ahead early Cloverdale had to start the comeback trail.
Jessica Winders scored on a Kelsey Helterbrand RBI in the first and but the next Cadet home run coupled with Cascade's homer in the first put the visitors ahead.
Cascade went scoreless for three innings and so did CHS until Jessica Winders smacked a homer in the fifth inning.
This tied the score at two.
Cascade was then able to score two more in the sixth, putting the pressure on the home team.
Cloverdale needed two scores to tie and in the seventh the Clovers came through.
First Hannah Long got on base, then Lauren Meek got on base. This allowed Helterbrand to pick two more RBIs with her double.
"Swing level and swing hard," Kimmy Winders said. "I'd been popping and I guess I was swinging for the fences. I was just really hoping to get that run in and get the win."
However the Lady Clovers needed one more and with Helterbrand on second Kimmy Winders stepped up to the plate and knocked her teammate home with a line drive down the left-field line.
It took some last second heroics to win the second game on Tuesday, as well. Unfortunately for Cloverdale the heroics came from the Cadets.
Cloverdale scored one in the first inning and two in the second while Cascade scored two in the first and one in the third. However they also scored two runs in the fifth putting Cloverdale down 5-3.
Then going into the seventh Cloverdale scored two more runs in hopes of sending the game into extra innings. But a two-run homer by Cascade ended the game.
"We did a great job of making it a tie game in the top of the seventh and had the bases loaded with one out but could not push across any more runs in the seventh," CHS coach Jim Spencer said. "Overall, the Clovers played really well and made some great defensive plays. Cascade just hit the ball hard and scored enough runs to win and create a two-way tie at the top of the conference."
Helterbrand again came up big at the plate for the Clovers with two singles and a double including two RBIs.
At Cloverdale
Cascade 110 002 2 -- 4 9 2
Cloverdale 100 010 3 -- 5 9 1
WP Meek 6 Ks
HR: J. Winders
2B: J. Winders, K. Winders, Helterbrand
RBI; Helterbrand (3), J. Winders, K. Winders (2)
At Cascade
Cloverdale 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 -- 5 7 0
Cascade 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 -- 7 11 2
Pitching:
Lauren Meek (7-3, 4-1) 7innings, 5 strikeouts
Hitting:
Kelsey Helterbrand: 2 singles, double, 2 RBI
Kiley Shedron : single, double, 2 rbi