Colfax drops heartbreaker against Mondovi
by Samuel Ripp
MONDOVI — The Colfax softball team traveled to Mondovi on Thursday, April 21 to take on the Buffaloes. The Lady Vikings would lose in the bottom of the eighth inning on a walk off from the Lady Buffaloes, winning by a score of 10-9.
Colfax would start off right by scoring in the first four innings. They would push two across in the first and second innings and then add one more in the third to go up 5-0 early in the game. Mondovi would respond with one in the bottom of the third, but Colfax would get it right back in the top of the fourth inning. It was then the Lady Buffaloes started playing catchup the next couple innings. They would score two in the bottom of the fourth and push two more across in the bottom of the sixth. They would then tie the game up in the bottom of the seventh inning to force extra innings. They would need only one more inning of play to decide the outcome. Colfax would push three across in the top half of the inning to give them a nice cushion for the bottom half. The Lady Buffaloes would fight and claw their way to scoring four in the bottom half and win in walk off style.
On the mound for the Lady Vikings and taking the loss was sophomore Tamara Huffman. Huffman pitched the whole game and gave up ten runs on eight hits while striking out twelve on the afternoon.
At the plate, Colfax managed ten hits and eight walks while only striking out twice on the night. Collecting hits for the Lady Vikings included: Huffman with two, senior Lakken Meredith, junior Dailyn Mortenson, sophomore Mikaela Leibfried with three, freshman Kaitlyn Field, sophomore Becca Lee, and sophomore Hailey Durand.
On the nine runs they produced, eight of them came off of RBIs and adding to their season total were: Huffman, senior Serena Secraw, Meredith with three, Leibfried with two, and Field.
Colfax will be looking to climb in the conference standing as they currently sit right in the middle at third. They will have those chances in the upcoming games against conference opponents.