Lady Dragons season comes to end at hands of Lady Marauders

ROCKSPRINGS — The Meigs Lady Marauders beat the Fairland Lady Dragons 10-0 in the first round of the Division 5 sectional softball tournament on Wednesday.

Meigs (23-2) was led by Natalie Goode who was 3-4 with 4 runs batted in, Bella Roush was 2-3 with 2 RBI, and Brooklyn Roush 2-4 with an RBI.

Fairland (3-19) had 4 hits with Yardley Gorby and Raelynn Barker-Chapman each 1-2 while Maddie Cornwell and Aubree Cyrus both 1-3.

Brooklyn Roush got the win for Meigs as she struck out 7 and walked 4.

Already ahead 4-0, the Lady Marauders put up five more runs on four hits in the bottom of the fourth to take control of the game.

Goode drove in a pair of runs on a base hit, Roush singled to score a run and a pair of errors in the field allowed two more runs to score and make it 9-0.

The winning run came in the fifth when Allie Hysell singled in Ava Horn for the run-rule win.

Meigs will now face the Coal Grove Lady Hornets in the district semifinals on May 19 at Ohio University at 4:00 P.M.

Fairland 000 00  =    0    4  5

Meigs 301 51  =  10  12  0

Maddie Short and Maddie Schneider. Brooklyn Roush and Kyleigh Kranyik. W-Roush (IP-5.0, H-4, R-0, ER-0, K- 7, BB-4). L-Short (IP-4.0, H-12, R-10, ER-2, K-7, BB-4). Hitting-Fairland: Maddie Cornwell 1-3, Aubree Cyrus 1-3, Yardley Gorby 1-2, Raelynn Barker-Chapman 1-2; Meigs: Brooklyn Roush 2-4 RBI, Natalie Goode 3-4 4-RBI, Aubrey Newell 1-3, Alie Hysell 1-1, Payton Kranyik 1-2, Bella Roush 2-3 2-RBI, Jordin Davenport 1-1 RBI, Shelby Yost 1-3 RBI.