Sacred Heart Indians
Sacred Heart

'Nettes whip St. Paul

  • Ava Lackey gets loft on the ball in hitting a home run against the San Antonio Saints. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald
    Ava Lackey gets loft on the ball in hitting a home run against the San Antonio Saints. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald
  • Haley Noska scores a run in the SA Saints game. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald
    Haley Noska scores a run in the SA Saints game. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald

    The Sacred Heart Indianettes tore into St. Paul, 23-8, in a TAPPS District 5 Division IV game here Thursday.

    The Lady Cardinals took a 6-3 lead through three innings before SH went on a rampage with two runs in fourth inning and a big 10-run fifth. Five more runs were added in the sixth inning to end the game via the run rule.

    The Indianettes (18-6- 2, 1-0) rapped out 15 hits in the contest with Ava Lackey and Emma Demel hitting home runs.

    SP scored four runs in the first inning on two hits and two errors. SH replied with three runs in the bottom of the first. Avery Beach led off with a triple and scored on Rylan Dworsky’s sacrifice fly. Demel drew a walk before Lackey hit a 0-2 pitch over the right center field fence to trim the margin to 4-3.

    SP expanded its advantage to 6-3 before the Indianettes started coming back. Three runs in the fourth inning tied the game at 6-all with Demel blasting a two-run homer over the center field fence and another run scoring on an error.

    The Indianettes batted around plus five during the 10-run fifth inning. Beach singled and tripled in the frame.

    Dworsky headed the Indianette hit list with four hits in four at-bats. Beach hit safely three times and Demel, Lackey and Karley Kostelnik all had hits and Haley Noska and Kenzie Chance one each.

    SH 12, SA SAINTS 11

    Runs, hits, walks and errors were abundant as Sacred Heart out-lasted the San Antonio Saints, 12-11, here Tuesday, April 2.

    Everything was pretty quiet until the bottom of the fourth inning when the Indianettes rallied for seven runs on five hits and an error.

    The inning started with a solo home run by Ava Lackey. Haley Noska ensued with a triple and scored when Karley Kostelnik was safe on an error. Madeline Kurtz singled and Phoenix Richter’s infield hit loaded the bases. A bases on balls to Rylan Dworsky forced in Kostelnik and Emma Demel followed with a two-run single. Lackey drove in the final run and had her second hit of the inning with a base hit.

    The Saints came back with seven runs of their own to take an 11-8 lead in the top of the fifth.

    But SH scored the final four runs of the game in the fifth. Elena Grahmann had a run-scoring single to begin the inning that was capped by Demel’s three-run double.

    The Indianettes produced 13 hits.