SELAH – Lindsay Dawson mowed down 10 W. F. West Bearcats while Burlington-Edison scored five times between the third and sixth innings as the Tigers won 5-0 in their opening game of the 2A State Fastpitch Tournament Friday afternoon at Carlon Park.
Dawson also helped herself at the plate with an RBI double in the sixth, two singles, and a run scored. Rachel Tingley, Rachelle Berry, Amy Entrikin and Ashlynn Ishikawa also scored runs for the Tigers. Jessica Tingley had a pair of RBI singles and Sam Rigelman added two hits for B-E.
The W. F. West (Chehalis) Bearcats’ top pitcher, Lauren Ticknor, struck out nine, mixing speeds and locations of pitches, but was unable to keep the potent Tiger offense off the bases.
Dawson had a no-hitter through five innings, before Caitlin Linehan broke it up with a sixth-inning single into shallow right field.
With the win, Burlington-Edison advance to the quarter-finals of the tournament, where they’ll face the Pullman Greyhounds at 4:00 p.m. today. Kris Drake will webcast the game here on SkagitRadio.com.
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by admin on April 9, 2009
BURLINGTON – An unlikely match-up in the bottom of the sixth between Sedro-Woolley Cubs’ pitcher Maddie Lynch-Crumrine and Burlington-Edison’s Holly Bradley – the number nine hitter in the Tigers’ lineup – proved to be the game-winning at-bat in Burlington-Edison’s 3-1 win over Sedro-Woolley in Northwest Conference girls’ fastpitch softball action Wednesday afternoon.
With Jasmine Rigelman on third base and Ashlynn Ishikawa on second base, two outs and a full count on Bradley, Lynch-Crumrine pitched inside, outside, up in the strike zone and down in the strike zone. Bradley kept fouling off pitch after pitch to stay alive in the box with two runners on and the score locked at one apiece.
After multiple foul balls, Lynch-Crumrine tried to blow a fastball past Bradley, but the Tiger left-fielder brought the head of her aluminum bat right through the middle of the ball and bashed a line-drive into centerfield as the Tiger dugout erupted in excitement. Rigelman scored easily from third and Ishikawa made it around from second as the throw from centerfield was cut off by Lynch-Crumrine in an attempt to tag Bradley as she slid into second base for what would be the game-winning, two-run double.
Lynch-Crumrine struck out 12 Tigers, allowed seven hits and four walks in suffering the loss, and was also 2-for-3 at the plate with a run scored.
The Tigers’ Lindsey Dawson pitched brilliantly in earning the win, striking out 15 Cubs, walking only one, and giving up four hits.
Dawson had a single and a double with a run batted in on offense, while Rachelle Berry added a single and a run for Burlington-Edison. Ishikawa contributed a pair of singles in the Tigers’ fourth straight win.
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