Cave Spring Dominates Cougars 10-0 In River Ridge Softball

Cave Spring batter Pami White launches a 2-RBI single that ignited the Knight 7-run first inning against Pulaski County.
Cave Spring batter Pami White launches a 2-RBI single that ignited the Knight 7-run first inning against Pulaski County.

Cave Spring switched attack-mode Thursday afternoon at the Knights softball complex.

 Only three days removed from hitting four home runs in the first inning on their way to a 12-9 win over Carroll County, the Lady Knights stuck with singles and doubles to easily knock off Pulaski County 10-0 in a game called after five innings due to the 10-run rule.
“We’re starting to hit the ball well,” Cave Spring head coach Nick Sharp noted afterward. “I’ll take 10 singles over 1 home run all day long. We wanted to keep base runners  in the merry-go-round.”
Sharp must have been pleased on Thursday. It was singles and doubles, with plenty of both.
Cave Spring batted around in their half of the first, scoring seven runs on three singles, three walks, a double, a Pulaski County error and an assortment of passed balls and wild pitches from the Cougar battery. Key in the Knight arsenal were a two-run bases loaded single by Pami White, a two-run double by Cassi Parulis and a two-run single by Jordan Clifton.
That gave Knight pitcher Taylor Asimakopoulos all the cushion she would need, putting it on cruise control from the circle the rest of the way.
Cave Spring added two runs in the second on RBI doubles by White and Hailey Sitze for a 9-0 lead, then got the contest to the 10-run mark in the fourth when Sitze doubled and later scored on a sacrifice fly.
Asimakopoulos closed the door when she got the final Cougar out on a come-backer to the circle in the Pulaski fifth, completing the two-hit shutout with six strikeouts along the way.
White and Sitze each collected two hits  for Cave Spring, which only batted in four innings. Sophomore Jade Murray and junior Courtney Beville had the lone hits for Pulaski.
Beville, who lasted only 1/3 of an inning as the Cougar starter before returning to the circle in the third, took the loss.
“No long balls today,” Sitze said after the game. “We were just making contact and keeping it in play. We’re still working to get the kinks out. When you’re the defending state champs, we know everyone is out to get us.”
“We’ll keep on building,” Sharp added. “The goal is to peak in late May.”
Cave Spring improved to 11-1 on the season heading into the week-long spring break. The Cougars dropped to 2-9.
Bill Turner

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