EHS softball team competes in Northview tournament

The Enterprise High School varsity softball team was busy over the weekend competing in the Northview Invitational Tournament.
Friday, the Lady Wildcats and Holmes County played to a 2-2 tie in the EHS opener. Terra Rasmussen pitched three innings for Enterprise, allowed 1 hit, walked 2, struck out 1 and surrendered 2 runs.
Brittany Perry pitched 2 innings in relief, surrendered a hit and struck out 4.
At the plate, Januar Page went 1-for-2, scored a run and stole 2 bases.
Ashley Simon went 1-for-3 and had an RBI; and Adrienne Bradley was 2-for-3 and squeezed home the game-tying run for an RBI.
In Friday’s second game, the Lady Wildcats downed Charles Henderson, 4-2.
Jordan Bullock earned her first win of the season; she pitched 3 1/3 innings, allowed 1 hit and 1 run. Bullock walked 3 and struck out 2 before being relieved by Kaitlin Strickland, who earned her first save of the 2009 campaign after pitching 2/3’s of an inning in which she surrendered a run and a bases-on-balls.
Kayla Beth Logsdon and Ashley Simon led EHS offensively. Logsdon was1-for-2 with a homerun and 2 RBI’s. Simon went 1-for-2 with a double, a run scored and an RBI.
On Saturday, the Wildcats downed Northview, Fla., 1-0, with Strickland and Perry sharing pitching duties.
Strickland improved to 3-0 on the season after working 4 2/3’s innings and allowing 4 hits but no runs; she struck out 7.
Perry earned her second save for pitching a third of an inning.
At the plate, Merecedes Sanders went 1-for-2 with the game’s only RBI.
Logsdon was 1-for-2 with 2 stolen bases and a run scored.
Enterprise, which had drawn a first-round bye as the tournament’s No. 2 seed, next faced rival Smiths Station and earned another 1-0 win.
Perry pitched 4 2/3 innings, allowed 4 hits, walked 1 and struck out 2 as she recorded her first win of the season.
Strickland, who earned her second save, worked 1/3 of an inning and struck out 1.
At the plate, Page went 1-for-2, stole a pair of bases and scored the game’s lone run. Bailey Harrelson went 2-for-2, and Bradley, who was 0-for-3, drove in the only run with a first-inning groundout.
The win put the Wildcats into the semi-finals, against the host Lady Cougars of Northview, who won, 5-4.
Strickland (L, 3-1) was saddled with the loss; she pitched 4 1/3 innings, allowed 9 hits and 5 unearned runs, while striking out 3.
Rasmussen pitched 2/3’s of an inning and struck out a Cougar.
In the hitting department, Bullock was 2-for-3 with an RBI; Ashley Brown was 1-for-1, with a double and an RBI; Marley Strahan was 1-for-1, with a run scored; and Bradley was 1-for-2, with a run scored and an RBI.
“I thought the girls played with a lot of heart this weekend,” said EHS coach Ben Thompson, now in his second year coaching the Lady Cats after having coached EHS baseball pitchers several years. “And I’m excited about this team.
“Our young girls came off the bench and performed, and that’s what we need if we are going to succeed. They just have to be patient and their time will come. Defensively, we are still giving away too many outs and we can’t do that.
“I’m proud of the way we fight until the end; we never give up…that will carry us a long way, but we have to quit shooting ourselves in the foot. I like this bunch.”
Enterprise returns to action Tuesday at Rehobeth. Varsity action is slated to follow the 4:30 p.m. junior varsity game.