SOFTBALL: Lady Warriors beat Flora, hammered by Harrisburg, Carmi
Du Quoin started Saturday's tournament at Carmi with an impressive 13-1 victory over Flora, but fell apart in the two games that followed, both lopsided losses to Harrisburg and Carmi.
In the win, Maddie Robison tossed all four innings in the circle for the Lady Warriors and gave up just two hits, striking out a pair and walking four. The bats were hot, too, as DMS scored at least two runs in every inning.
After Bailey Harsy walked and scored on a wild pitch, Avery Waller delivered an RBI single to put the Lady Warriors up 2-0 in the top of the first inning.
Chloe Hess drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the two-run second inning for DMS, and in the third the Lady Warriors put up four runs with help from base hits by Aubrey Barwick, Waller, and Braylee Watson.
Ella Hirsch and Emily Boyett added RBIs in the five-run fourth inning for Du Quoin.
Hess (1-1, 2 R, RBI, BB, SAC), Hirsch (1-3, R, RBI), Barwick (1-3, R), Waller (2-2, R, RBI, BB), Watson (1-3, 2 R) and Abbi Mocaby (1-1, HBP, BB) accounted for the Lady Warriors' seven hits against Flora.
DMS's offense would seemingly go to sleep from that point on, however, managing just three combined hits in an 18-0 loss to Harrisburg and a 13-1 loss to Carmi.
Harsy (1-1) started the Harrisburg game with a single for Du Quoin's only hit in a game where the Lady Warriors issued 15 total walks and hit batters and committed four errors in the field.
It wasn't much better against Carmi, when Harsy (1-1, R) and Maya Russell (1-1) were the only Lady Warriors with hits, and the team committed three costly errors to consecutive batters during a ten-run second inning for the tournament host.
"We played very well in the first game, no errors and hit the ball very well," said DMS head coach Jason James. "Games two and three we just lost focus. We are still learning where to throw the ball in certain situations. We will continue to work on the focus thing. Right now there just seems to be way too many distractions for them. We still have a ways to go and we will pull it together."
Du Quoin (2-5) plays at Murphysboro on Tuesday.