Redskins win sectional title
The Redskins get a 13-0 win over the Spartans of Toledo Start. The Spartans knocked Wapakoneta last year in the sectional final in an 11-8 game, this year the Redskins get revenge and capture a sectional title.
Wapakoneta’s win was greatly bolstered
by a huge Redskin fourth inning as they
had 10 scores come across the plate. The Redskins were able to
end the game after the top of the fifth.
The Redskins put on an offensive showcase
in Wednesday’s win, as a team, they had 15
hits in the 13-run performance. Five Redskin batters had multiple hits, led by both Emily Vanhorn and Addy Allen with three. Addison Fisher, Rylie Jeanneret and Aubryn
Schnarre all had two. Jeanneret and Fisher
each also hit a double and Vanhorn had a triple. Fisher and Carlie Schroeder led
the Lady Redskins with two RBI each.
Start had Miranda Bee begin the game on the Mound but was replaced in the fourth
after allowing six, she would end the game with eight runs
against her as a few Redskin baserunners
scored after Maddie Collins came in for relive. Collins would allow five runs on five hits. The two would combine for four strikeouts in the loss.
Addison Fisher pitched the entire five innings for Wapakoneta, she only allowed four hits and sat down five Spartans on
strikes. Redskin manager Bill Sammons
spoke about Fisher’s play after the game, “Addison Fisher pitched lights out,
she’s a freshman and understands how to
handle pressure, hats off to her and all the girls that contributed.”
The Redskins have a lot of people to give credit to in their great
season so far, they are now 15-4 overall, went undefeated in WBL play and now have a
sectional title win under their belt. Sammons gives a lot of that credit to his assistants, both Dan Fisher and Scott Wilson have
been important for the Redskins along with Katie Lisi, a senior who has not been able to play this season
due to injury, all are key to helping the players on the field for Wapakoneta.
The Redskins will now travel to Bowling Green Tuesday to take
on top-seed Anthony Wayne. Sammons
spoke about the challenge of facing the Generals, “we’re going to treat that as our
state championship game, we want to play
the best, that’s what we always tell the girls,
I love that we are in Anthony Wayne’s bracket, we want to
see what we can do against this team and
supposedly the best team in the whole
state.” He added, “this team’s going to come
out fighting, we’ll do whatever it takes to be able to win and we’ll see what happens.”
The Generals were able to beat the 17-seeded Toledo
Notre Dame Academy Eagles, in a 20-0 match on Wednesday.
The Redskin seniors have now played their last game at Wapakoneta, Allie Wilson, Aryka Watt, Shaylin
Cook, Addy Allen and Katie Lisi will now hope to keep their senior seasons going.
Sammons spoke about his senior’s winning a
sectional title, “that was huge, especially
DI, getting a sectional championship for these seniors kind of puts an exclamation point on the season
stating ‘this isn’t a fluke’ going 9-0 in the league, then getting a sectional championship against a great Toledo Start team, now
everything is icing on the cake, we don’t
have any pressure on ourselves, we’ll play,
have fun, but not take it too lightly and go hard and see what happens.”
Score By Innings Wapakoneta 102 10xx x - 13 15 0
Start 000 00x x - 0 4 3