TIPTON - For the second straight season, the Wilton softball team has swept their season-opening River Valley Conference doubleheader. Last season it was West Branch, this season, Tipton. The Wilton Beavers started their 2018 season on the road at Tipton with a doubleheader sweep of the Tigers by scores of 13-2 and 17-2. Both games ended by the mercy rule. The Beavers have a scary team offensively with multiple ways they can score runs and will be a team to watch in the River Valley Conference this season.
Game 1 - Wilton 13, Tipton 2 (5 innings)
Wilton 8th grader Peyton Souhrada was collected her first varsity win after starting the game and going the first three innings. She gave up two runs on two hits while striking out four and walking four Tipton batters.
Seven Beavers had multi-hit games in the win. Kortney Drake was 3-for-4 with 2 RBI’s and two runs scored. Taylor Garvin also was 3-for-4 with a double and 2 RBI’s. Karlie Schult, Chloe Wells, Payton Ganzer, Kali Milder and Lexi Maurer each had two hits.
Wilton scored three runs in the first inning and sent eight batters to the plate. The Beavers put the game away with a 6-run second inning. Wilton batted around in the inning. Chloe Wells had a two-run single in the inning while three others, Kortney Drake, Karlie Schult, and Payton Ganzer, had RBI singles in the inning.
The Tigers scored their first runs of the season in the bottom of the third inning. The Tigers sent a game-high six batters to the plate in the inning, scoring twice. Ashley Mente blasted a one-out double that one-hopped the outfield fence to get the rally going. Bryanna Simmermaker walked. Both would score with two outs on an error by the Beavers on a ball put in play by Keeli Claussen.
Wilton scored two runs each in the top of the third and fourth innings to get the score to an 11-run lead after five innings. Wilton led 11-2 after three innings.
Morgan Wendel took the loss after giving up 13 runs on 11 hits. She struck out one and walked one batter. Five different Tigers had hits. Mente, Simmermaker, Grace Nichols, Claussen, and Kamryn Chapman accounted for the Tiger hits. Tipton had six stolen bases in the game. Simmermaker had two while Mente, Nichols, Claussen and Britney Ford had the others.
Game 2 - Wilton 17, Tipton 2 (4 innings)
Wilton capped off the night with a 17-2 win in four innings to start the season 2-0. Wilton scored 30 runs in the two games. The second game saw Wilton freshman Chloe Wells have a monster game. Wells, who was an All-State player last year as an 8th grader, was 3-for-3 with a double and two home runs. She drove in 8 runs in the game. In the two games against the Tigers, she collected 11 RBI’s. She had 25 RBI’s last year for the whole season.
Wilton scored runs in each of the first four innings. Wilton led 8-0 after two innings and scored three in the third and six runs in the top of the fourth to capture the 17-2 win.
Tipton scored single runs in the bottom of the third and fourth innings, both off of RBI singles. Ashley Mente had a 2-out RBI single in the third that scored Laken Hermiston and Hailey Stewart had a 1-out RBI single in the fourth that scored Grace Nichols.
Peyton Souhrada was the winning pitcher, collecting her second varsity win after going two innings and not giving up a run on one hit. She struck out three and walked two. Mila Johnson pitched two innings in relief and struck out two batters.
Two other Beavers had multi-hit games. Kortney Drake was 2-for-4 with 2 RBI’s, three runs scored and a double. Taylor Garvin also was 2-for-3 and had a double and RBI. Karlie Schult, Souhrada, and Emily Coss each had hits. Coss and Schult each had 2 RBI’s.
Taylor Wendel took the loss after pitching four innings. She gave up 17 runs on eight hits. She struck out three and walked six batters.
Tipton had six hits in the game. Laken Hermiston was 2-for-3 with a double to lead Tipton. Allie Ryan, Ashley Mente, Grace Nichols and Hailey Stewart each had hits. Mente and Stewart each had RBI’s, and Kaylea Claussen had a stolen base.
Beavers Outlast Chiefs in extra innings, 10-9 To Win Third Straight Game
WILTON — The 2018 home opener for Wilton was not easy, but the Beavers came away with a 10-9, 8-inning win over non-conference foe Keokuk to improve to 3-0.
Keokuk batted around in the top of the first inning, scoring four runs on two hits and knocking Wilton starter Peyton Souhrada out of the game. Mila Johnson came into the game in relief and pitched 3 1/3 innings before handing the game over the Chloe Wells who would get the win after four innings of relief pitching.
The Beavers trailed 4-0 after the top of the first and started to chip away at the Chief lead. The reputation of Wilton freshman third baseman Chloe Wells followed her into the game. Wells came into the game with 11 RBI’s and 2 home runs, all coming in the Beavers season-opening sweep at Tipton. Wells blasted her third home run of the season in the bottom of the first, scoring Karlie Schult who had reached base on a one-out single. Wells would reach base all five times in the game, but the following four were via walks.
Wilton tied the game at four in the second. A Kortney Drake RBI single and a bases-loaded walk to Wells for an RBI were the runs. Keokuk scored three runs in the fourth to take a 7-4 lead. Wilton responded with a four-run fourth to grab the lead back at 8-7. The score was 9-8 Wilton when Keokuk tied the game in the top of the seventh sending the game to extra innings.
Wilton held the Chiefs in the top of the eighth and won the game in the bottom of the eighth. Kortney Drake doubled to lead off the inning and went to third on a Schult single. Chloe Wells walked to load the bases with no outs. Taylor Garvin lined out to second base for the first out, as the runners did not advance. Then on a 1-1 count, Payton Ganzer singled to right field, scoring Drake for the walk-off hit and win.
Wilton had 11 hits in the game. Kortney Drake and Karlie Schult each were 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Drake had a double and 2 RBI’s. Each had a stolen base. Payton Ganzer was 2-for-5 with a double and a team-high 4 RBI’s.
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