YME 11, KMS 1

GRANITE FALLS — Four players logged three hits for the Yellow Medicine East softball team on Thursday, helping the Sting rout Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg for an 11-1 Camden Conference win in six innings.

Bayli Sneller, Alana Almich, Emma Keller and Charlotte Paslawski each had three hits in the game, including a triple for Sneller and a double for Almich and Paslawski. Almich also drove in four runs while Paslawski plated another three.

Sneller struck out 13 batters in her complete-game outing in the circle for YME, limiting the Fighting Saints to one earned run on two hits with no walks.

Chasity Schmitz scored the game’s first run in the bottom of the second, reaching base on a dropped third strike and scoring on an Everra Leenertz ground out.

The Sting pulled away an inning later. Sneller hit a leadoff triple before scoring on an Almich single. Another pair of singles from Schmitz and Keller loaded the bases, and Paslawski capitalized with a three-run double to bring the gap to five runs.

YME tacked on another pair of runs in each of the next two innings, and kept KMS off the board until they hit an RBI double in the top of the sixth. Yet, back-to-back walks to Schmitz and Teagan Balfany put the clinching run on base, and a Paslawski single put them both in scoring position. Evi Jimenez was hit by a pitch to push across one run and Brianna Nelson singled in another to enact the mercy rule.

YME improves to 4-3 and next plays on Friday at BOLD. The game was still in progress at the time of print.

BOX SCORE

BATTING

B. Nelson: 2-5, RBI, R, B. Sneller: 3-4 (3B), SB, 3 R; A. Almich: 3-4 (2B), 4 RBI, 2 R; E. Cherveny: 1-4, SB, 2 SO; C. Schmitz: 1-3, BB, RBI, 3 R, SO; E. Keller: 3-3, R; T. Balfany: 0-0, BB, R; C. Paslawski: 3-4 (2B), 3 RBI; E. Leenerts: 0-3, RBI; E. Jimenez: 0-0, HBP, RBI.

PITCHING

B. Sneller: W, 6 IP, 2 H, R, ER, 13 SO.

Lakeview 17, Ortonville 2

ORTONVILLE — Kiara Hinz’s six total bases set the tone for the Lakeview softball team Thursday night, leading the Lakers’ offense in a 17-2 blowout in four innings against Ortonville in Camden Conference play.

Hinz reached base in each of her four plate appearances, logging a triple, a double, a single and a walk. She went on to score each time.

Makenna Anderson added another three singles with a pair of RBIs, and Emma Brusven contributed a triple and a double with an RBI.

Brusven also pitched all four innings for Lakeview, striking out seven of the 15 batters she faced and limiting the Trojans to one earned run on three hits.

A walk to Kiara Hinz and Adison Hinz reaching on an error put two runners on to start the game. Kiara Hinz scored on a wild pitch, and after a walk to Taylor Hinz, Adison stole home as the Trojans caught Taylor trying to steal second. Avery Hinz and Brusven were then each hit by pitches, and Hinz scored on a wild pitch and Brusven stole home to cap off the four-run inning.

The Lakers added another four runs in the next frame and two more in the third before Ortonville got on the board with one in the bottom of the frame. Yet, Lakeview scored seven in the top of the fourth and limited the Trojans to one in the bottom of the fourth to trigger the four-run mercy rule.

Lakeview improves to 4-3 and next takes on Lac qui Parle Valley in a Friday doubleheader in Madison. The games were still in progress at the time of print.

BATTING

K. Hinz: 3-3 (3B, 2B), BB, RBI, 2 SB, 4 R; Ad. Hinz: 2-4 (2B), RBI, 2 R, 3 SB, SO; T. Hinz: 1-1, 3 BB, 2 R, 2 SB; Av. Hinz: 1-3, HBP, 2 RBI, 2 R, 3 SB, SO; E. Brusven: 2-3 (3B, 2B), HBP, RBI, 3 R, 2 SB, SO; M. Anderson: 3-3, 2 RBI, BB, 2 SB; M. Velde: 1-2, BB, HBP, R, 2 SB; K. Gawarecki: 0-1, HBP, 2 BB, 2 R, SB; T. Fiene: 1-3, RBI, SO.

PITCHING

E. Brusven: W, 4 IP, 3 H, 2 R, ER, 7 SO.