Introduction 

The top teams in the NEKL, McLouth and Jackson Heights, duel it out in a swift doubleheader at the Patterson Softball Field located in McLouth. Coming into the matchup the McLouth Bulldogs are 18-2 on the overall and 10-0 in North-East Kansas League play. The Jackson Heights Cobras are slithering into the doubleheader at 8-4 in league and 11-5 overall. Tonight Jackson Heights will look to take on their hardest opponent yet, and as for the Bulldogs they will aim to make a doubleheader home stand against the snakes.

Game One (Called after Five) - Jackson Heights VS McLouth (0-10) 

Game one started off with fireworks for the Bulldogs with a two-run-home run shot to dead center from junior Dani Lee. Dani Lee also had another two shot homer in the second inning coming off the first pitch of the count. Dani Lee for McLouth also pitched the entire first game and finished with fourteen strikeouts against seventeen batters. Her longest strikeout streak on the game was eight in a row, starting with the last out of the first inning and ending with the second out in the fourth. Jackson Heights had sophomore Layla Cochran pitch the first game and she recorded six strikeouts, even striking out Dani Lee on her last at bat in game one, Dani Lee went 2-3 at bat with four RBIs, two home runs, two runs, and struck once. The Bulldogs finished game one with ten hits, ten runs, no errors, and left two on base. The Cobras only managed to record two hits on the game for singles. Entering the bottom of the fifth the Bulldogs are up 8-0, and the final winning runs of the game came from senior Leighanna Patz and junior Leanna Larson getting home to end it after five, 10-0. 

Game Two (Called after Five) - Jackson Heights VS McLouth (0-10)

The Bulldogs come out in game two with senior Elizabeth Subelka on the mound, Subelka finished the game with twelve strikeouts while only facing a total of nineteen batters. The Cobras came out with their reliable game two freshman pitcher, Natalia Keo, who just like Cochran from game one also had six strikeouts against the Bulldogs. The Cobras had a better fight in game number two with the game being only 3-0 going into the fourth unlike game one which was 8-0. Jackson Heights had a base hit for a double along with a pair of singles in game two, one more hit than they had in game one. Unfortunately for the Cobras they had six fielding errors which allowed the Lady Bulldogs to get ontop early. Sophomore Brynn Shupe had both a single in game one and in game two for the Cobras, the only Cobra who had a multi-hit day. The second game entered the bottom of the fifth 6-0 and McLouth was able to start the inning with three straight singles to load the bases. Senior Somer Wyatt brought the game to 9-0 with a RBI-triple and she was on third representing the game ending run, a failed pickoff attempt on her went down as a fielding error and allowed Somer Wyatt to get home to end the game 10-0. 

Summary

Despite the same solution from both games, the formulas were quite different. Jackson Heights hung onto game two a little more but fell to too many errors and unearned runs, with nine total on the night. McLouth came out in a much hotter start in game one, being by the bat of Dani Lee with her two home runs cranked dead center. McLouth out hit Jackson Heights with twenty-three hits to five hits on series, both teams left six total on base, the dogs finished with zero errors and the snakes had nine. The Lady Bulldogs will improve to 20-2 on the year and 12-0 in league play. Meanwhile the Lady Cobras will drop to 11-7 on the season and in NEKL play 8-6. The Cobras are set to play Olpe at home on Thursday this week and the Bulldogs will make another home stand on Thursday as well, this time against Troy. 

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