LRSC Softball starts season off with a win

The Royals softball team played two games on Saturday February 20th in Aberdeen, SD at the Presentation College Sports Dome. In game one against Valley City State University - JV ended in dramatic fashion with a 3 run 7th inning to pull out the win 4-3. In the game, Mackenzie Sansom pitched a complete game giving up 3 runs, 2 of them earned, off of ten hits, and she had 6 strikeouts. VSCU started out quickly scoring 2 runs in the first but Sansom settled down and holding Vikings from VCSU to only one more run, a homerun in the top of the 7th. In the bottom of the 7th 2 past balls scored Jade Ledochowski and Kristen Hutto to tie the game up. With one out and runners on 2nd and 3rd, Hanna Gary hit a single into left scoring Courtney Fines from 3rd for the winning run. For the Game, Jade Ledochowski had 2 singles, Mackenzie Sansom had a double, and Kiahna Chumola and Kristen Hutto each had a single.

In the second game of the night, the Royals played the JV from the University of Jamestown. Jamestown jumped out to a quick 2 run lead in the 1st off of pitcher Hanna Gary then another 8 runs in the 3rd. The Royals scored 3 runs in the 3rd when Hanna Gary launched a homerun blast over the left field fence scoring Emma Gary and Haunani Morton who both had walked previously. In the 4th inning Jamestown scored one run and the Royals scored 3 more runs off of a 2 run homerun by Hanna Gary scoring Emma Gary who doubled prior scoring Courtney Fines. The final score ended with Jamestown winning 13-6. For the game, Hanna Gary went 3 for 3 with 2 homeruns and 5 RBI's, Emma Gary went 1for 2 with a double and 1 RBI, Kiahna Chumola and Jade Ledochowski each had a hit.

The Royals next action will be March 11th when they travel to Phoenix. Scores and schedules can be found on the softball webpage at http://www.lrscroyals.com/sports/sball/index