Valencia vs Canyon

Lady Vikings take on Canyon.

With Carly Mortensen taking to the mound the Cowboys started off with a slap triple to left field. Next batter struck out followed by a walk. With a grounder hit to Mortensen she was unable to get the runner at 3^rd in time. The next batter hit to Madison Shipman who threw the ball to home to get the runner out. With two outs the next batter hit a ball to Shipman, but was to fast to get to 1^st and two runs score. The last out of the inning was a strikeout. Bottom of the 1^st, Amy Moore hit a single to center. With Missy Fundora running for Moore, Shipman hit a 2 run homerun over the center field fence. Caitlin Rooney walked. Top of the 2^nd, the Cowboys went down in order. Bottom of the 2^nd, Tori Balta singled to left. Top of 3^rd, Cowboys were once again sat down in order. Bottom of 3^rd, Moore led off the inning with a walk. Bethany Kemp hit a ground ball to 3^rd but the fielder threw the ball to 2^nd to get Shipman out. Kemp followed up by stealing 2^nd. Rooney singled to short with an overthrow to 1^st allowing Kemp to score. The top of the 4^th was led off by a walk followed by a ball that was hit to Shipman who threw to 2^nd to get the lead runner out. The next out was a fly ball recorded by Annie Dreher who was filling in for the injured Lauren Boser at 1^st. With two outs in the inning, Mortensen threw a pitch that hit the batter allowing runners at 1^st and 2^nd. The next batter hit a ball off Mortensen’s glove and the runner was safe at 1^st. With the bases loaded, Mortensen was able to get the batter to groundout to Shipman who threw the ball to Dreher for the final out of the inning. The top of the 6^th was a wild inning for the Vikings. A grounder to Shipman was thrown to Dreher at 1^st who did the splits to record the first out of the inning. Once again a ball was hit to Shipman who threw the ball to 1^st, but the ball was dropped allowing the runner to be safe. The folloing at bat was a sacrifice bunt that Dreher picked up to throw to 1^st, but the ball was dropped by Kemp who in turn threw to Rooney at 3^rd to get the runner out on a fabulous play by both. With two down the batter hit a ball to Shipman who threw to 1^st for the out, but the umpires ruled that Dreher pulled her foot off the bag allowing the runner to be safe. The Cowboys were able to tie the game with a pitch that got by Moore. The last out of the inning was a groundout to Shipman. Bottom of the 6^th, Rooney hit a single to left field and advanced to 2^nd on a wild pitch. With Jessica Smith running for Rooney, Smith advanced to 3^rd on a hit to short by Dreher. The Vikings were unable to score the run. In the 7^th with the score tied 3-3, Sarah Enriquez came in for relief of Mortensen after a walk and a single. With runners at 1^st and 2^nd Enriquez walked the next batter to load the bases. In an unfortunate set of circumstances and the bases loaded Canyon scored two runs on to hit batters. Mortensen was brought back in and got the first out with a comebacker that she threw home, followed by 2 strikeouts to end the inning. In the bottom of the 7^th the Vikings were unable to pull off a win as they went down in order. Final score Valencia 3 Cowboys 5. Mortensen had 7 strikeouts in the game.

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