By Brandon Hopper hopperb@canoncitydailyrecord.com
Left fielder Michelle Bauer lunges for a fly brawl during the Canon City Tigers' bold adjoin the Mesa Ridge Grizzlies on Thursday at Rouse Park. (Brandon Hopper / Daily Record)
After 13 innings of seeing the Tigers' ace, the Mesa Ridge Grizzlies assuredly got to her Thursday night — array of.
Mesa Ridge denticulate bristles runs in the fifth inning and four added in the sixth adjoin Tigers chief Bayley Hammel and the Grizzlies won a 9-7 Colorado Springs Metro Alliance clash bold at Rouse Park.
Only one run in the fifth inning was becoming adjoin Hammel, and all four in the sixth were earned.
With one out in the fifth, three beeline errors accustomed the drive to about-face to the Grizzlies' dugout. The abutting batter, Grizzlies cleanup hitter Carrie Salvador, capped the inning with an inside-the-park homerun that denticulate the attached and ambitious run.
"We've aloof got to get our gloves dirty," Tigers drillmaster Drew Ornelas said. "If you don't put them bottomward and you accomplish bad throws, they score. That's the basal line."
It was the third bold the two teams accept played this season, and Mesa Ridge now holds a 2-1 edge. In both its wins, it battled aback from ample deficits. Mesa Ridge exhausted Cañon City 10-7 on Sept. 6 afterwards abaft 7-0. Amber Soliday started that bold for the Tigers, but Hammel pitched the final two innings.
The Tigers exhausted the Grizzlies 9-2 on Tuesday to assure the additional atom in the Colorado Springs Metro League. Hammel pitched all seven innings in that game.
"We knew what she could do, and we knew what she had," Mesa Ridge drillmaster Albert Bustillos said, abacus that he thinks Hammel is a amazing pitcher.
Bustillos and the Grizzlies beatific their No. 3 bullpen Hailee Hall to the mound, who the Tigers hadn't apparent this season. Hall threw seven innings, giving up four becoming runs on nine hits.
After the bad arresting fifth inning, the Tigers attempted to put calm three rallies in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. They argent runs in each, but larboard runners in scoring position in anniversary of those frames. Cañon City abandoned six runners on abject in those three innings combined.
Tashena McIntosh was 4 for 4 at the bowl with a double. Hammel and Ashton Atencio anniversary had two hits. In the RBI category, McIntosh and Briana Atencio had two apiece.
Hammel accomplished the bold with nine strikeouts including a amplitude of four straight.
The annular robin CSML clash will affection league-winner Woodland Park, No. 2 Cañon City, No. 3 Mesa Ridge and No. 4 Widefield.
Next up, Cañon City will host Widefield at 4 p.m. Tuesday. On Thursday, Cañon City will biking to Woodland Park for a 4 p.m. game.
Because the Tigers took additional abode in the league, they are affirmed a atom in the bounded playoffs. The CSML tourney amateur are still key, though, for agriculture purposes.
Round Robin Games
Tuesday: No. 1 Woodland Park vs. No. 3 Mesa Ridge; No. 2 Cañon City vs. No. 4 Widefield
Oct. 2: No. 1 Woodland Park vs. No. 2 Cañon City; No. 3 Mesa Ridge vs. No. 4 Widefield
All amateur played at armpit of college seed.