Last Friday, the Rebels traveled three hours away to kick off some softball.
They arrived in Boyd County with the intent to play three games, one on Friday night at 9pm against Johnson Central and the other two on Saturday at 10am and 2pm against Raceland and Notre Dame Academy.
However, due to the weather, the game on Friday night was canceled. The Rebels got some team bonding in at their hotel and when they traveled to eat at Texas Roadhouse as a team!
The next morning, they got up bright and early to compete with two very good teams. Unfortunately, the Rebels didn’t come out so hot. Raceland gained an early lead of 6-0 at the bottom of the second. The Rebels’ heads quickly went down after multiple errors in the field.
However, their hits started to fall at the top of the third when they came back to make the score 6-3, Rams leading. The bottom of the third was just as hard on the Rebels, as they gave up seven runs off of errors. They couldn’t battle off enough hits to gain any more runs and the Rebels ended up losing 17-3.
The next game, the Rebels came out fighting. They needed redemption from their last game and so they came out with a purpose.
The Rebels held off Notre Dame Academy for the first two innings. Meanwhile, they were struggling finding their timing against D1 Pittsburgh commit Gwen Sparks. Sparks had an epic rise ball and had velocity like no other. Though some Rebels found ways to get on base, they were left stranded on the diamond. Notre Dame kept inching runs and kept fighting to gain a larger lead. At the end of seven, Notre Dame Academy ended up winning 10-0.
Right fielder Addie Cannon says, “Over the weekend, I don’t think we played to our full potential. We didn’t come out ready to play all together as a team. We are better than what we showed on Saturday. However, I think we got better from this experience as it was very eye-opening and highlighted some faults of ours.”
The Rebels will play again on Wednesday at Marion County at 6pm.