Tibbs' 4-Hitter Helps Lady Vikings to 6-3 Win Over Northwest

AID — The Symmes Valley Lady Vikings began its Southern Ohio Conference schedule in a big way.

Facing one of the top contenders in the league race, the Lady Vikings used the 4-hit pitching of Brenna Tibbs to beat the Northwest Lady Mohawks 6-3 on Wednesday to open conference play.

“That’s a big league win. That was a big test for us in the conference,” said Lady Vikings’ coach Jefff “Odie” Estep.

“We had another great outing by the whole team. Batting, pitching, defense, base running. It was a good team effort.”

Symmes Valley (7-1, 1-0) went up 1-0 in the first inning as Tibbs singled, stole second and third and came home on a hit by Marley Ferguson.

The lead went to 2-0 in the third as Kaycee Thompson walked, Tibbs singled, and after wild pitch Ferguson hit a sacrifice to score courtesy runner Nevaeh Holbrook.

Symmes Valley got 4 runs in the fourth to. Lead 6-0.

Alyssa Waugh singled, Addy Hawk put down a sacrifice bunt and Natalie Simpson belted a 2-run homer.

Addi Ridenour singled, Tibbs singled an out later and Lindsey Freeman doubled for two runs.

Tibbs was 3-4 and Ridenour 2-3 as Symmes Valley had 9 hits.

Northwest fell to 3-2 overall and 0-1 in the league.

The Lady Vikings will host Western on Monday.

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Sym. Valley 101 400 x = 6 9 2

Annika Carpenter, Kamryn Journey (4) and Lauren Copp. Brenna Tibbs and Kaycee Thompson. W-Tibbs (IP-7.0, H-4, R-3, ER-1, K-11, BB-2). L-Carpenter (IP-3.1, H-5, R-4, ER-4, K-2, BB-1). Journey (IP-2.2, H-4, R-2, ER-2, K-0, BB-0). Hitting-Northwest: Kamryn Journey 1-3, Kendra Bostwick 1-4, Annika Carpenter 1-3, Laikyn Puckett 1-3; Symmes Valley: Brenna Tibbs 3-4, Addi Ridenour 2-3, Lindsey Freeman 1-4 2B, Marley Ferguson 1-3, Alyssa Waugh 1-3, Natalie Simpson 1-3 HR.