Lady Dragons come up short
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Clinton’s Taylor Sherwood took the circle for the Lady Dragons’ season opener Mon- day night in Oliver Springs at Arrowhead Park. Sherwood was sharp,only giving up one earned run, but five errors behind her hurt the effort. - Ken Leinart
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Lady Bobcats Jackson Lawson (23) and Megan Armstrong (24) turned near disaster in the infield into an out Monday night when Oliver Springs hosted Clinton’s Lady Dragons. The Lady Bobcats played opportunistic softball in their 6-4 home win to go 2-0 in the early season. Oliver Springs won a 13-0 district game against Coalfield to open the season last week. - Ken Leinart
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Clinton’s Tomi Taylor touches home to score the first run of the 2022-23 season for the Lady Dragons Monday night at Arrowhead Park in Oliver Springs. Taylor scored on an RBI single from freshman Elizabeth Maples. - Ken Leinart
Inclement weather forced the Clinton High School softball team to open its 2023 season late.
Rains have also cost the Lady Dragons some practice time on the diamond.
And it showed when CHS finally had the opportunity to play its first game of the campaign Monday night.
The Lady Dragons came up on the short end of a 6-4 decision at Oliver Springs.
Clinton committed five errors leading to five unearned runs for the Lady Bobcats.
“We haven’t had any time on the field and that’s absolutely killed us,” Lady Dragons Coach Leonard Sams said.
“We lost, 6-4, and they had one earned run and that was a home run.
“We had five errors. We scored four runs and those were earned runs,” he said.
Elizabeth Maples had two hits and drove in two runs in three at-bats against Oliver Springs.
Kayla Sherwood was also 2-for-3 and had an RBI in the game for the Lady Dragons.