Arlington softball sophomore Jaydin Allen picked up a bruise Monday night at the RVR Bank Sports Complex.
“I did,” she confirmed. “I definitely did.”
Branded with softball stitches on her elbow from a Logan View/Scribner-Snyder pitch, the Eagle was still in good spirits after the home game. Coach Janelle Lorsch's team won it after all, 10-2 in five innings.
“It is definitely a successful night,” Allen said.
AHS (7-3 overall) hosted and lost 7-0 to Class C No. 2 Ashland-Greenwood on Tuesday, but, first, it picked up its seventh win of the young season by run-rule. Run production has been key to the Eagles' success.
“We're continuing the hot streak,” sophomore Lydia Schaapveld said after Monday's win.
Arlington scored its first runs of its game against the Raiders during the second inning. Dianna Flores and Emme Timm reached base before Savannah Lang plated them with a single.
Then, during the third frame, Allen scored Libby Stork — who substituted in to run for winning pitcher Rylee Fuehrer — with a triple before Timm hit the ball hard to Logan View's shortstop for another run.
“Hitting was a little slow toward the beginning, but toward the end it got really, really good,” Allen said, noting a successful defensive showing as well.
The Eagles added three more runs to their tally during the fourth inning before the Raiders battled back with their first two of the game in the top of the fifth.
“Shake it off,” Schaapveld said when asked what AHS' mentality was after its Monday night lead shrank for the first — and only — time.
She issued the first response, plating Britt Nielsen with a single for the Eagles' eighth run. Flores pushed across the ninth with a bases-loaded walk before Allen ended the game by run-rule with another run-scoring single.
The next night at home, though, coach Lorsch's team lost by seven runs to Ashland. The Bluejays scored four second inning runs and added three late in the win.
Arlington, meanwhile, went scoreless for just the second time this season. Lang notched the Eagles' lone hit, according to statistics posted to maxpreps.com.
AHS SOFTBALL LINE SCORES
Tuesday
No. 2 Ashland-Greenwood 7, Arlington 0
AG (8-2) 0 4 0 0 0 2 1 — 7
AHS (7-3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0
Monday
Arlington 10, Logan View/Scribner-Snyder 2, 5 inn.
LVSS (3-2) 0 0 0 0 2 — 2
AHS (7-2) 0 2 2 3 3 — 10
