DEWITT — The Durant softball team split a pair of games last week. Both games were on the road. Durant lost at West Branch on Monday, July 6 and won at Calamus-Wheatland 19-7 on Tuesday, July 7. The Wildcats ended their regular with a record of 11-4. Durant begins Class 2A postseason play this week. The Wildcats are in Region 8 and will travel to Wapello on Wednesday, July 15. The winner of that game will play at Wilton on Friday, July 17 against the winner of Wilton-MEOP/Danville winner.
Wildcats Rout Warriors 19-7 In Regular Season Finale
WHEATLAND — The Durant Wildcats won their 11th game of the year and third straight game against Calamus-Wheatland last Tuesday in the last regular season game for Durant. There, the Wildcats took a 19-7 win over their non-conference foe. Durant holds an 8-1 record over the Warriors in their last nine meetings.
Durant had 21 hits as a team and pounded out 17 singles, three doubles, and a home run. Seven players had multi-hit games led by Abbey Rhoades who was 4-for-4 with three singles, a home runs, 2 RBI’s, and scored four runs. Nicole Brown had three singles, 2 RBI’s and scored twice. Ally Happ, Shannon
Head and Kylie SChult each had two hits. Kira Schult and Allie Poston each had three hits. Head drove in four runs, Schult three and Kylie Schult two runs.
Durant scored runs in six of the seven innings in the game. Durant trailed 3-2 after the first inning,
but tied the game at three by the end of the second inning. The Wildcats led 7-6 after four innings. The Wildcats put up four runs in the top of the fifth to extend their lead to 11-6. Durant put the game away in the top of the seventh inning, scoring eight runs in the top of the seventh to get the score to 19-6. Shannon Head was the winning pitcher after working seven innings.
Head walked five and gave up seven runs on nine hits.
Bears Beat Wildcats 7-1, Win 5th Game Of The Year
WEST BRANCH — West Branch senior Kaiya Luneckas held down the Durant offense in a 7-1 win in RVC play last Monday. The Wildcats fell to 10-4 with the loss while West Branch won their fifth game of the season with the victory.
Luneckas kept the Wildcats off balanced the whole night, limiting
Durant to only three hits. Luneckas struck out 11 Durant batters and walked two. She allowed only one, unearned run. Three Bears had multi hit games. Maddy Hatfield was 3-for-3 with three singles, Luneckas and Nicki Henson both had two hits. Lunecaks and Lexi Klinkhammer each had home runs with Klinkhammer driving in three runs and Luneckas
two.
West Branch scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning to take an early 2-0 lead. The Bears added single runs in the third and fourth innings to extend their lead to 4-0. Durant scored their only run of the game in the top of the fifth to cut the Bears lead to 4-1. However, in the bottom of the inning, West Branch put the game away with three more runs to get the score to its final, 7-1.
Durant’s three hits came from three different players. Collecting hits were Abbey Rhoades, Kira Schult, and Brooklyn Bullard.
Ally Happ reached base via a walk as did Bullard. Kylie Schult took the loss after working
six innings. Schult struck out one, walked one, and gave up eleven hits and seven runs.
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