The Dewar Lady Dragon varsity slowpitch softball team earned their 15th win of the 2023 campaign Monday evening with a 12-4 victory over the Okemah Lady Panthers.
The Dewar Lady Dragon varsity slowpitch softball team earned their 15th win of the 2023 campaign Monday evening with a 12-4 victory over the Okemah Lady Panthers.
The Lady Dragons, ranked 13th in Class 2A, returned to action Thursday with a trip to Preston for an Okmulgee County battle with the Class 4A No. 6 Preston Lady Pirates.
In Monday’s road battle with Okemah, the Dewar squad opened the scoring with four runs in the top of the first. After both teams plated a run in their half of the second for a 5-1 Dewar advantage, the Lady Dragons extended their lead to 7-1 with a pair of runs in the top of the third.
Okemah cut the Dewar lead to four, 7-3, with two runs in the home half of the fourth, while the visitors pushed across five runs in the top of the fifth for a 12-3 advantage.
The host Lady Panthers were only able to tally one run in the last of the fifth to award the visiting Dewar Lady Dragons the 12-4, run-rule, win.
The Lady Dragons were led offensively by Melanie Burney (2 for 3, single, double, 2 RBIs) and Ally Burney (2 for 3, single, triple, 2 RBIs) with two hits and 2 RBIs each.
Other Dewar batters with multi-hit games on Monday were Bre Harvell (2 for 4, single, double), Brailee England (2 for 2, 2 singles), and Danielle Baker (2 for 3, 2 singles, RBI) with two hits each.
The other Lady Dragon base hits against Okemah came on singles by Jaycee DeTurk and Sommer Bess, RBI single by Kyli Davis, and double by Gracie Johnson.
--- Dewar 12, Okemah 4
Dewar: 4 - 1 - 2 - 0 - 5 12 - 14 - 2 Okemah:0-1-0-2-1 4-8-5 WP: Brailee England LP: Unknown HR: None
