After drawing within a run of the Thunder Mountain High School softball team in the second inning, Sitka batters were no match for Kyra Jenkins Hayes, who subbed in as pitcher in the bottom of the third inning.
Jenkins Hayes limited the Wolves to two hits the remaining five innings, and the Falcons (3-1) made out with a 4-3 win before rushing to catch a ferry home on Saturday.
“She was shutting them down,” TMHS coach Brittnay Gladsjo said of Jenkins Hayes.
The Falcons won 21-4 Friday night. Gladsjo said there’s no such thing as a safe lead against TMHS’ conference opponets, including Sitka.
“Anyone can come back in this league,” she said.
TMHS scored an incredible eight runs in the first inning and seven in the second inning of Friday’s game.
“We were relying on our bats on the first day and that was nice to see,” Gladsjo said.
In the first game on Friday, Alondra Echiverri led TMHS with three RBIs in a 9-3 win over Sitka. The game was counted as non-conference and won’t go against either team’s record. Megan Dallas pitched seven innings and stranded a total of seven runners. After securing an early two-run lead, Echiverri and Megan Dallas hit two-run home runs in the third inning to extend the Falcons advantage to six runs. The Wolves would score three runs in the later innings, but Dallas kept Sitka off the board in the final inning as three of Sitka’s last four batters grounded out.
