DEWAR - The Dewar Lady Dragon fastpitch softball team suffered a 12-4, run-rule, loss to the Preston Lady Pirates last Thursday afternoon at Al Kessel Field. The Lady Dragons (13-7)
DEWAR - The Dewar Lady Dragon fastpitch softball team suffered a 12-4, run-rule, loss to the Preston Lady Pirates last Thursday afternoon at Al Kessel Field.
The Lady Dragons (13-7) were unable to fully overcome an early deficit to their county rivals in the home loss.
Following the loss to Preston, the Dewar diamond squad traveled to Graham-Dustin High School and routed the host Graham-Dustin Lady Chieftains by a 21-0 margin for their 13th win of the season.
The next action for the Lady Dragons will be this Thursday when they battle the Sperry Lady Pirates in the first round of the Morris Fastpitch Softball Tournament. Dewar's meeting with Sperry will get started at 9 a.m. at the Morris high school softball field. A win over Sperry will put the Lady Dragons in a second-round meeting with the host Morris Lady Eagles Thursday at 12:20 p.m., while an opening-round loss would drop the Dewar ladies into a loser's bracket game Thursday at 3:20 p.m.
In last Thursday's county showdown in Dewar, the visiting Lady Pirates opened the scoring with four runs in the top of the first, then added six more in the second for a 10-0 advantage after one and one-half innings of action.
The host Lady Dragons made it a 10-3 contest with three runs in the home half of the second, while Preston closed out their 12-run offensive outburst with a pair of runs in the top of the third.
Dewar tallied its final run of the contest in the bottom of the fifth, handing the visitors from Preston the 12-4, run-rule, victory.
Skyler Randall absorbed the loss for Dewar, allowing 12 runs on eight hits, striking out one and walking one in two-plus innings of work. Randall pitched to two batters in the third before handing over the pitching duties to Morgan Britt, who walked two and allowed three base hits in three innings of relief work for the Lady Dragons.
Dewar's top hitter in the county battle was Noelani Corbin with a 2-for-2, 2-triple, performance. The other three base hits for the Lady Dragons came on a single by Staejha Mack and RBI singles by Randall and Talyn Been.
Other Dewar players to reach base against Preston were Corbin (walk), Randall (walk), Mack (walk), KiKi Carter (fielder's choice), Skye Been (walk), Savannah Been (walk), and Autumn Campbell (fielder's choice).
