Lady Jackets win 3 of first 4 games in region
The Calhoun High School softball team has won three of its first four 5-A Region 7 games and head coach Diane Smith knows her team is moving in the right direction
“We’re playing well and that’s good to see considering we’re now playing our region games,” Smith said. “We were disappointed that we lost our first region game with a tough one to Cass, but even in that game, I was proud of my girls because we scored four runs in the seventh inning to force the game into extra innings. But I think we’re getting better and we’ve just got to keep working and I think we will be fine.”
The Yellow Jackets were a group of busy bees last week playing four games in four days. They were most impressive offensively, scoring 42 runs in those games, but went just 2-2 and one of those setbacks was that league loss to Cass.
They began their four-game odyssey with a 3-1 non-region loss to Gordon Lee.
Lee scored a run in the top of second and then added two more in the fourth to take a 3-0 lead. The Jackets got on the board with a run in the bottom of the fourth but they would not score again.
Last Tuesday, Calhoun ventured back into Region games with three of them in three days and they had their hitting shoes on the entire time.
They won their second league game with a mercy rule 17-0 win over Hiram and then belted
Woodland, 11-2 on Wednesday in a makeup game to stand 3-0 in rhe Region. But on Thursday, after tying the game with a four-run seventh, they dropped a crazy 12-11 decision to Cass in eight innings to fall from the ranks of the unbeaten in their league.
Against Hiram, the Jackets needed just four Innings to get the job done. The visitors scored three runs in the first inning, three more in the second, and then put up five in the third and six in the fourth