BARBOURVILLE, Ky. – The Lindsey Wilson softball ball team scored 25 runs on 25 hits en route to a pair of five-inning victories at Union Commonwealth (Ky.) on Wednesday afternoon.
Every Blue Raider sent to the plate reached base at one point or another during the doubleheader, including
Kendall Dailey and
Sam Hartman who each contributed a team-high four hits.
Atavya Fowler,
Melaina Tucker,
Katie Lorenz, and
Natalie Wandrie finished with three hits, apiece, and
Brylee Pickerell and
Kaiden Rodgers drove in eight runs, collectively, on four hits.
In the circle,
Hallie Roberts and
Grace Adams collected wins, while
Kayden Murray and
K'Asia Palmer combined to fire three innings of relief with five strikeouts, zero earned runs, and no hits allowed.
Game One: Lindsey Wilson 9, Union Commonwealth (Ky.) 1 (5 Innings)
Lindsey Wilson's offense got right to work in game one with an RBI-single by Pickerell plating Hartman in the top half of the first inning.
Then, in the second frame, Lorenz led-off with a single and later scored off the bat of Fowler to double the Blue Raiders' lead. The same scenario played out nearly identically in the third inning. This time, Lorenz reached on a single with two outs on the board but still got home on an RBI-single from Fowler. The same inning, Tucker, who doubled her way on the bags, showcased her speed to score on a passed ball and extend the lead to 4-0.
Union Commonwealth got a run back in the bottom leg of the third inning and managed to keep Lindsey Wilson scoreless in the fourth. However, in the fifth frame, the Blue Raiders pushed five runs across on three hits with two outs. The first of those runs came from an infield groundout by Tucker and a Bulldog miscue. Dailey, Hartman, and Wandrie provided the three hits of the inning back-to-back-to-back and each earned RBIs in the process.
With the run-rule in effect, Palmer and Murray solidified the victory from the rubber in the bottom half of the fifth. In fact, the duo limited the Bulldogs to no hits over the final two frames.
Roberts garnered her second win of her freshman campaign after dealing three complete innings and surrendering one earned run on two hits while striking out three.
Game Two: Lindsey Wilson 16, Union Commonwealth (Ky.) 2 (5 Innings)
A high-scoring fifth inning, again, proved the difference for the Blue Raiders as they finished off the hosts for the first sweep of 2025.
Like game one, Lindsey Wilson scored first in the opening inning when an infield error off the hit by Wandrie cleared the way for Dailey to trot home.
Union Commonwealth did take its only lead of the day in the bottom of the second with consecutive bases-loaded walks, but that advantage did not last long.
In the Blue Raiders' half of the third inning, with two outs recorded, Hartman beamed a triple to the warning-track, scoring
Nora Epley. The next at-bat, Wandrie doubled home Hartman, then got sent around herself by an RBI-single from Lorenz.
The following frame, Dailey increased the visitor's lead to 5-2 with an RBI-double.
The fifth inning started fast as Hartman and Wandrie dropped a pair of base-hits to get the ball rolling. After a flyout,
Kaiden Rodgers walked to the plate and launched a moon-shot, three-run home run over the left field fence. Not long after, an infield misthrow, walk, single, and fielder's choice quickly ran the score up to 12-2, and brought Rodgers back to the batter's box with two runners aboard. While the freshman did not circle the bags this time up, she did drive home two more runs off a single ripped to the outfield.
Pickerell added Lindsey Wilson's final tallies of the inning, and the game, with a two-out, two-run, RBI-triple.
All told, the Blue Raiders' 11-run fifth inning is the highest scoring inning since April 16, 2022.
Adams obtained her first win of the season thanks to her solid start of four complete innings. She gave up two earned runs on three hits and retired three Bulldogs on strikes.
Lindsey Wilson takes its two-game winning streak to Henderson, Tennessee this weekend for the Freed-Hardeman Open. The Blue Raiders will play a doubleheader at 12 and 2 p.m. CST on Friday, February 28 against Williams Baptist (Ark.), then go head-to-head at the same times on Saturday, March 1 versus Saint Francis (Ind.).
