NC regular season ends with rain out

LOWDEN — The end to the 2019 North Cedar softball season will be remembered for years to come. The Knights saw their regular season end on an uncommon streak. North Cedar entered last week on a ve-game losing streak. Last week, North Cedar had one game and three games get called due to weather and not being able to get schedules lined up. The Knights fell 11-8 in their only game last week.

The North Cedar softball team scored their most runs in a game sincey a 13-0 win over Central Elkader at the Springville tournament on Sat- urday, July 8, when they took an 11-8 loss. The Knights fell to 6-16 overall with the loss and 3-13 in the River Valley Conference.

Freshman Kendall Smith took the loss after working the whole 7-inning game. She gave up 11 runs, seven earned, on ten hits. She struck out seven and walked three.

Samantha Recker was the winning pitcher for Cascade. Recker pitched 6 1/3 innings and gave up 10 hits and eight runs. She struck out two and walked one. Alyssa Koppes pitched the nal two outs to earn the save. She did not give up a run.

North Cedar had 14 hits in the game. Five Knights had multi-hit games. Kendall Smith, Kassidie Galloway, Carly Meier, Alyssa He e n- ger, and Sam Koth each had two hits. Meier and Kayla Syring each had doubles and Jenna Sy- ring had a triple. Smith, Galloway, and Katelyn Jackson each had RBI’s in the game. Sam Koth had two of the four North Cedar stolen bases and Alyssa Barnhart and Kayla Syring also had stolen bases. He e nger reached base via a walk.

Four Cougars had multi-hit games. Devon Si- mon and Whitney Clemens each had three hits. Simon scored ve runs and stole three bases. Morgan Kremer and Madison Gehl each had two hits. Clemens and Kremer each had three RBI’s. Gehl had two RBI’s.

North Cedar led 2-1 after the rst inning after each team scored in the rst inning. Cascade took a 3-2 lead with a 2-run top of the third. North Cedar tied the game at 3-3 in the fourth inning. Cascade led 4-3 going to the sixth inning. The Cougars would score four runs to take an 8-3 lead. North Cedar tried to get close, scoring four runs of their own in the bottom of the sixth to trim the Cougars lead to 8-7 after six. North Cedar however, would give up three runs in the top of the seventh to take an 11-7 lead. North Cedar was able to put a run across the plate in the bottom of the inning, but could not get closer than the nal score of 11-8.

The second game of the softball doubleheader with the Cougars was called o due to rain and weather. The Knights game on Wednesday, July 3 was called o due to weather and will not be made up. The Knights were to play Mid-Prairie on Saturday, July 6 in a make-up game, but could not due to weather, and the game will not be made up.