Miles used a four-run second inning to support hurler
Delaney Gray's four-hit shutout en route to the school's first-ever victory over Christian Brothers in a doubleheader split on Saturday at Bill Noble Park. The Lady Bucs (2-2) won the first game 13-3 in five innings before the Lady Bears (3-1) took the nightcap 8-0.
The opener saw Miles trail 2-1 after four innings, leaving two runners on base in three of those frames. But in the fifth, CBU put the first eight hitters on base against starter Gracie Adkins (0-1) and reliever
Madison McGowan. All of them, plus three more batters, came around to score in the 11-run inning. The final blow was a 3-run homer by K. Candies to make the score 13-1. The Lady Bears got two of those runs back in the bottom of the inning as
Andrea Harris scored on a wild pitch for the second time and
Gabriela Garcia singled home
Daisy Bejarano. But it was no enough as the game was stopped by run-rule.
The second game was entirely different for the Lady Bears. It started with Gray (2-0), who kept the Lady Bucs at bay. She only struck out three but pitched to contact and let her defense do the rest. She was only in real danger during the fourth when she gave up a one-out triple. But she got Dakota Davis out on a batter's interference call before striking out Mackenzie Giesler to end the frame.
By then, the Lady Bears had already staked themselves to a 5-0 lead. Four of those runs came in the second.
Jada Bradford, who went 3-for-3 and got on base four times, scored on an error, Bejarano got an RBI groundout, then Gray and Harris scored on an errant throw into left field on a comebacker to the circle. Gray added a sac fly RBI in the third,
Trenity Okedele drove in Bradford with a double in the fifth, and Garcia had an RBI double in the sixth to complete the scoring.
Miles is back in action on Tuesday when it travels to face Montevallo. First pitch of the doubleheader is scheduled for 1 p.m.
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