Reeths-Puffer came out on the short end of another thrilling battle
with No. 5-ranked Byron Center Thursday, losing 1-0 in extra innings.
As
in the teams' first game two days prior, the Rockets (14-4, 6-3 O-K
Green Conference) were unable to score their courtesy runner at second
base in the eighth inning, and the Bulldogs brought her in, scoring on
an unearned run.
Lainey McDaniel did all she could for the
Rockets, pitching another excellent game with 14 strikeouts and only
five hits allowed in 7 1/3 innings. She also got all three of her team's
hits, including an eighth-inning single that could have scored the
courtesy runner had the Bulldogs not executed a pickoff play.
