Penney High School senior lefty Julia Kanoy struck out 21 Trenton batters over a complete game two-hitter, leading the visiting Lady Hornets to a 4-1 win over the rival Lady Bulldogs on Monday night at Griffin Field.
In a game broadcast on KTTN FM 92.3, Trenton flashed its best pitching performance of the season, with Emma Roberts going the first five innings, allowing just one run on one hit, before a bout of wildness in the fifth bringing in junior right-hander Jenna Reeter to open the sixth. Reeter went six innings, allowing three runs on seven walks, striking out four batters.
Penney opened the scoring in the top of the 4th inning, with shortstop Brighton Swindler driving a ground-ball to the right of Trenton’s Gracyn Rongey. The shortstop fielded the ball cleanly, but Trenton had nobody covering second base, with Swindler winning a race to the bag to snare the extra base. A sacrifice bunt by Morgan Hartley pushed Swindler to third, and she scored on a line-drive smash to Rongey that went off the Trenton defenders thigh and into short center field.
Trenton’s run came in the bottom of the 4th inning, as third baseman Chandler Lynch lofted a deep fly ball into the left field corner for a triple, with Maci Moore’s safety squeeze bunt scoring Lynch, who, after a throw to first place to retire Moore, won a race to the plate, just ahead of the tag.
The Lady Hornets scored three runs and batted around in the top of the 11th inning, with Swindler, Hartley, and Andie Angle all coming up with singles, while Kanoy, Amelia Pingleton, and Olivia Edwards earned base on balls. Trenton went down in order in the bottom of the 11th, with a grounder to short off the bat of Lynch ending the game.
The win improves the Lady Hornets mark to 3-2 on the season, and, despite the defeat, could be a huge confidence booster for Trenton, particularly with the strong pitching done by Roberts and Reeter, as THS falls to 1-4, ahead of a Tuesday night GRC trip to South Harrison (5:30 PM / KTTN FM 92.3), with a home date against Polo following Tuesday night at 5:30.
Just a grand total of seven hits were amassed by the squads in the 11 inning contest.
Here is the softball area scoreboard from Monday, September 14, 2020:
Tri-County 15, Grundy R-V 0
Brookfield 6, Milan 0
Putnam County 3, Scotland County 0
Meadville 14, Hardin-Central 13
Braymer 9, Richmond 8
Princeton 6, Mercer 0
Albany 10, East Harrison 0
Platte Valley 6, Cameron 1
North Harrison 3, Maryville 0
East Buchanan 11, King City 0
Stewartsville 3, Pattonsburg 2
Maysville 7, Polo 5
Stanberry 10, North Platte 2
Carrollton 6, Lawson 3
Savannah 16, Plattsburg 0
