Colfax girls win softball games over Boyceville and Spring Valley

by Marlys Kruger

Sports Correspondent

Playing a doubleheader in April is not unusual with the weather situation, but playing against two different teams is a little different. When the Colfax softball field was unplayable due to a weekend rain, the Lady Vikings hosted Boyceville in an earlier than usual game April 9, then after taking a 9-1 win over the Bulldogs, they played Spring Valley in a make-up game from the day before and took a 10-2 win against the Spring Valley Cardinals.

Boyceville

The Bulldogs used three singles in the second inning to score first, taking a 1-0 lead. They had another chance to add runs in the third but a heads up play by the Colfax defense with an unorthodox double play halted their threat. With runners on first and second with one out, a ball hit to the Viking left fielder appeared to be caught but was dropped. The runners were caught trying to get to the next base and both were called out when they didn’t get there fast enough.

Colfax used a couple of free passes and a hard ground ball through the infield by Jada Anderson to load the bases, but a ground ball was fielded by the Bulldog shortstop who threw home for the force out. Hannah Peterson cleared the bases with a double to the fence and moved to third on a throwing error. Audrey Ebert banged a base hit to bring Peterson in for a 4-1 advantage.

Boyceville put a runner on in the top of the fifth but was promptly removed from the base paths when Viking catcher Brynn Sikora gunned her down trying to steal. Colfax responded on offense again with Anderson starting the bottom of the inning with a shot over second base. After stealing second, Sikora blasted a double and Peterson brought them both home with a solid single. The Bulldog defense began to fall apart, allowing the Vikings to score a couple of more runs with two big errors and it was 8-1 when the inning ended.

Colfax added one more run in the sixth and pitcher Laikyn Beyer shut the Bulldogs down, forcing two ground outs and a pop-up to end the game.

Bayer earned the win from the mound, allowing seven hits with seven strikeouts and three walks. Peterson was tops in the hitting department, picking up five RBIs on two hits, including a double. Sikora collected two hits with an RBI, Anderson added two hits, scoring three times and stealing a pair of bases, Bayer slammed a triple and Ebert and Emma Medin both had one hit with Ebert bringing in a run.

Spring Valley

The game started after 6:30 p.m. by the time the Cardinals got through their warm-ups, but Bayer was on track once again, hurling all five innings of the shortened game. She whiffed ten Cardinal batters while allowing six hits and just two free passes. She contributed at the plate with a 3-for-4 performance, scoring twice and bringing in two Viking runners. Sikora slammed a triple and a double to pick up a pair of RBIs while coming home twice, and Anderson and Peterson both brought in a couple of runners on base hits.