The Lady Roadrunners played three times last week going 1-2 in those games. Two of the outcomes were by one run, while the other was mercy rule loss.
Hosting Blue Ridge on Tuesday, Holbrook fell behind 9-2 after two innings, but made it a 9-4 game with 2 in the third. Blue Ridge extended their lead to 13-4 going into the sixth inning and seemingly had the game under control. However, Holbrook took advantage of Blue Ridge errors and hit the ball well scoring 6 runs in the frame but still trailed 13-10 going into the bottom of the seventh.
The Roadrunners got a couple of timely hits and took advantage of some more Blue Ridge errors and eventually won the game 14-13, scoring the final 2 runs with 2 outs in the bottom of the seventh.
Holbrook had just 5 hits in the game, but along with errors by the Yellowjackets those 5 hits were enough to get the job done. Holbrook also had 3 errors.
Jaycee Greer went 1 for 2; Micah Winn, 1 for 1; Elena Philpott, 1 for 4; Heide Bahe, 1 for 4; and Angelica Uranga went 1 for 3.
Gardner pitched the first six innings allowing 13 runs on 16 hits with 1 strikeout. Philpott worked one inning giving up only 2 hits with a pair of strikeouts.
Hosting Show Low on Thursday, the Cougars jumped out early with eight first inning runs. Holbrook scored twice in the second. Show Low put the game away in five innings with three runs in the fourth and 6 runs in the fifth to win the game 17-3.
The Lady Birds were held to just 4 hits in the loss. Bahe and Alexis Young each went 1 for 2 with a double. Emily Sanchez was 1 for 2, and Greer went 1 for 3.
Philpott worked all five innings in the circle, allowing 17 runs on 19 hits with 1 strikeout and 1 walk.
Hosting Page on Friday afternoon, the Sand Devils scored 3 in the top of the first but didn’t score again until the seventh. Holbrook went scoreless until the fifth, where they picked up 1 run. They tied the game in the bottom of the sixth with 2 runs. In the top of the seventh Page manufactured the game winning run with a 4-3 win.
Holbrook finished with 4 hits. Leah Gashweseoma went 2 for 3 with a double. Bahe was 1 for 3 with a 2 RBI double. Kentrall John went 1 for 3.
Gardner pitched all seven innings allowing the 4 runs on 6 hits with 4 strikeouts and no walks.
Holbrook was ranked 13th heading into Friday’s game with 14th ranked Page. They need to finish the season ranked inside the top 16 to host a play-in game. The Lady Roadrunners still have seven games left on their slate with six of the seven played on the road beginning with all three games this week. Monday, they play at St. Johns, Wednesday, they visit Blue Ridge, then Friday, they will make the short trip to Winslow.
Holbrook is 10-7 overall, and 6-4 in regular season games heading into this week.
