Shelby had to work hard to win game one against Mason County
Central Tuesday, 19-17, but celebrated the triumph by bludgeoning the
Spartans in game two, 16-0, to complete a West Michigan Conference
Rivers sweep.
The Tigers (22-6, 4-6 WMC Rivers) led the entire
game after scoring twice in the first inning, though the teams traded
big innings throughout. MCC piled up seven runs in the sixth - after
Shelby had scored six in the top of the inning - and brought the tying
run to the plate before Jayna Burmeister went to the circle and recorded
a strikeout. She then pitched a scoreless seventh to get the save.
Shelby struggled defensively, committing seven errors that led to nine unearned runs. MCC also had six errors in the field.
Allie
Stovall's RBI triple sparked a six-run Shelby second inning, which also
included a Jordan Wolting RBI single. Burmeister provided the big blow
in the six-run sixth, blasting a two-run home run to center field.
Stella Springer had a RBI triple in the inning to score Jaedyn Allen,
who doubled two batters prior.
For the game, Allen and Wolting
each got three hits and combined to score five runs, and Stovall had
three hits, scored four times and drove in four runs. Burmeister had two
hits, including the homer, scoring four times and driving in four runs.
Springer, Gabby LaFever and Emma Stovall each also had two hits.
Things
were much less dramatic in game two, as the Tigers ripped off two runs
in the second, eight in the third and six in the fourth, capped by
Burmeister's three-run inside-the-park home run to end the game. It was
Burmeister's second inside-the-park round-tripper of the game; her first
was also a three-run homer.
Burmeister got three hits and
drove in six runs, scoring three times. Allie Stovall got two hits, and
Allen doubled and tripled in the game, scoring three runs. Burmeister
pitched a four-inning shutout, striking out eight and allowing three
hits.
