By Johnny Sanders, Sports Editor
MOODY – After starting the season with 4 straight losses, the Moody Blue Devils softball team looked to get things on track this week. They got the ball rolling, so to speak, against JB Pennington on Monday with a 13-0 thrashing of the Tigers. The encore for the week was a 7-2 victory over the John Carroll Cavaliers on Tuesday evening.
Moody got all 3 Cavalier batters out in the first inning before stepping to the plate themselves, behind the pitching of Bella Turley. John Carroll walked the first two Moody batters, Alex Harvard and Kennedy Hockman before Kendall Trimm laid down a sacrifice bunt to put runners on second and third. Libby Higgins struck out and then Taylor Rogers hit a pop fly that resulted in a John Carroll error, driving in Harvard and putting runners at the corners. H Forester would get walked to load the bases, but Abi Gray grounded into a fielder’s choice to end the inning at 1-0.
After 2 scoreless innings in the second and third, the Moody bats woke up and the Blue Devils put 5 runs on the scoreboard. Forester and Gray got on base, each with singles to start off the inning. John Carroll got the next two batters out before walking Harvard. Hockman hit a single up the middle and brought Gray home. Now Moody had 2 runners on as Trimm approached the plate. After watching 2 balls and fouling one off, Trimm crushed the ball over the left field wall to bring everyone in and put Moody up 6-0 over the Cavaliers.
John Carroll scored 2 runs in the sixth to close the gap a bit, but Moody would put another run on the board to secure the 5-point win.
The 2-game winning streak improves the Blue Devils from 0-4 to 2-4 and gives them some momentum as they head into a rematch with the team that started this streak for them, JB Pennington, on Monday.
