The Brownwood Lady Lions put forth a much better performance in their second outing of the season against the Glen Rose Lady Tigers, but were still unable to knock off the District 6-4A front-runners, suffering a 6-1 home loss Friday night.
With the defeat, the Lady Lions (6-12-1, 2-3) fell into a third-place tie with Lampasas (11-11, 2-3) – which was upset by Gatesville (6-17, 1-4) by an 8-7 count Friday night – one half-game behind second-place Stephenville (9-12, 2-2), which had a bye. Glen Rose improved to 5-0 in district and 17-3 overall with the victory.
Lady Tiger pitchers Addison Nance and Taylor McKenzie limited the Lady Lions to just one hit while striking out 16 batters. Brownwood scratched across its lone run in the bottom of the second inning after Glen Rose had already tallied the first three runs.
Auzzlyn Benedict drew a walk to start the second inning for the Lady Lions, then moved to second base on a sacrifice bunt by Cecilia Rodriguez. Chelsey Covey then ripped an RBI double to right-center field to plate Benedict on Brownwood’s only hit.
In the circle, Brownwood’s Annie-Klein Allgood surrendered six runs on five hits with four strikeouts, four walks, and five base runners stranded. The Lady Lions defense committed two errors in the field.
Glen Rose – which scored seven first-inning runs in a 15-0 victory the first time the two teams met – jumped in front 3-0 in the first inning Friday. McKenzie walked and Calyn Miller reached on an error ahead of a two-RBI double by Kaycee Bock, who later came home on an RBI ground out by Catalina Sanchez.
The Lady Tigers stretched the lead to 4-1 in the third as Miller drew a lead-off walk and scored on another RBI double by Bock.
Glen Rose’s fifth-inning run was the result of Nance reaching on a one-out error and scoring on McKenzie’s two-out bloop single.
The final run crossed the plate in the sixth inning as Mallory Goff drew a lead walk and scored when McKenzie reached on a two-out error.
The Lady Lions are back in action at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday as they visit Lampasas, which won the first district meeting 15-4.