Telegraph Staff Writer
Host Fleming Island scored a run on an error in the bottom of the seventh to hand the Keystone Heights High School softball team a 5-4 loss on March 6.
The Indians (2-4) scored two runs in the top of the first on an Ashley Nugent double, but the Eagles answered with two runs of their own in the bottom of the inning.
Keystone trailed 3-2 before scoring two in the fifth. Abbie Roach walked, while Amber Wagner reached on an error. Roach scored on Kiley Channell’s sacrifice fly, while an error on a fly ball hit by Nugent, which would’ve been the third out, allowed Wagner to score.
Fleming tied it with a run in the bottom of the fifth before scoring the winning run in the seventh.
Nugent went 2 for 3. The rest of the team had three hits, with one being a double hit by Wagner.
Pitchers Nugent and Caitlin Frampton combined to give up six hits.
On Feb. 28, a Nugent double gave the Indians the lead for good in a 6-3 win at Tocoi Creek.
Keystone fell behind 3-1, but Frampton and Ashlyn Brown each drove in a run in the third to tie it up.
Nugent hit her run-scoring double in the fourth, while Madallynn Glinski added a two-run single in the fifth.
Glinski went 2 for 3 with two RBI, while Brown, Frampton and Nugent each had one RBI.
Roach went 2 for 4.
Nugent started in the circle, giving up three runs and one hit, while striking out five in three innings.
Kadence Massey-Hoadley finished it out, giving up no hits, while striking out five.
Prior to playing Fleming Island, Keystone defeated visiting Pierson Taylor 5-3 on March 2.
Taylor tied it at 3-3 with a run in the top of the sixth, but the Indians scored two in the bottom of the inning. Frampton hit a one-out single and, after a sacrifice bunt by Glinski, scored when the Wildcats committed an error on a ground ball hit by Channell. Roach later hit an RBI double for the final score.
Frampton finished 2 for 3. She, Nugent, Roach and Wagner each had one RBI.
Channell hit a double.
Starting pitcher Frampton gave up two runs and four hits through four innings.
Massey-Hoadley, in three innings, gave up one run, three hits and no walks, while striking out five.
Keystone travels to play Baker County on Thursday, March 9, at 7 p.m. before returning home to play Trinity Christian on Friday, March 10, at 7 p.m.
