A week off didn’t dull the Lady Demons senses one bit.

Beggs fastpitch restarted their season last Saturday after two games off due to COVID-19 quarantines, and their first game back was a smash hit.

Playing Porter, the Lady Demons took home a big 11-3 victory after securing the lead late in the game.

The game was all tied up at ones going into the bottom of the fourth inning, but Beggs didn’t settle and drove in six runs in the inning.

Shelby Cadwell dinged the ball to right field to let Morgan Busby run home, then Emma Mason hit an RBI to get Cadwell home too.

Brylee Williams and Caylee York both stole home on a passed ball, then Haileigh Mill hit out to right field to let York and Hannah Padgett score.

In the next inning Mason got another RBI and hit Williams in for another run.

Then, in the sixth inning, Cadwell slammed another hit to right field, this time for a triple and letting Kaylee Hutton and Mill score, and scoring herself on an overthrown ball to end the game in a 11-3 run rule.

Kaylee Hutton pitched for Beggs with an 85-percent strike game.

She pitched five strikeouts and allowed two runs.

Hicks Cadwell and Williams led the Lady Demons with two runs each, and York, Padgett, Hutton, Mill and Busby each got one run.

Beggs traveled to Morris Tuesday for another win, this one was closer with just a 2-0 lead.

Stats were unavailable for this game.

Beggs head coach Stephen Castleberry rejoined the team Wednesday after quarantining for ten days due to COVID-19.

“It’s good to be back. We had our first practice in forever (Wednesday),” he said.

Looking toward the rest of the season, Castleberry said they have some things to work on before they get to regionals.

“We haven’t been hitting the ball very well lately,” he said. “Early in the year, we were really hitting it, but that’s just part of it. You go through those cycles. Hitting’s contagious, so when someone starts hitting then everyone starts hitting, but no one is hitting.”

He said they are making too many errors in the field right now, but he said he thinks they just may be in a rut because they’ve already played so many games.

“It’s time to clean things up and get ready to play,” Castleberry said.