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Warriors take first “L” of season

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The Washington Warriors picked up a big 2-0 win over North Rock Creek High School in a key District game.

The win improved Washington’s District record to 8-0.

“It was a good pitcher’s dual,” said Warrior head coach Tylor Lampkin. “Both pitchers threw it well and it was a smooth game with not many errors.”

Senior Maggie Place pitched the complete-game shutout and tallied 10 strikeouts with only one walk and three hits.

Washington’s first three batters remained a steady force for the Warriors and had the teams only hits and runs.

Tinley Lucas was 1-3 with a run, Abby Wood went 2-3 with a run and Ellie Loveless was 1-3 with an RBI.

“It was a good win,” Lampkin said.

Blue Springs

Saturday the Warriors squared off with Blue Springs (Missouri) High School suffered their first loss of the season at the season in a 8-6 final.

The school, which is just outside Kansas City, has an enrollment of over 2,400 students and is a perennial power in the largest athletics class in the state.

“Their coach is good friends with the Piedmont coach and asked if they could come to Oklahoma and play some of the better teams here,” Lampkin said. “They have six girls on the team with Division-1 offers.”

Loveless got the start in the circle for Washington. She was relieved after two innings by Place, who closed out the final six innings.

“Blue Springs jumped out on us early,” Lampkin said. “Ellie didn’t have her best stuff but we made a couple mistakes behind her.”

The Warriors committed three errors in the game.

The game was tied 6-6 through five innings and neither team could push a run over in the sixth or seventh innings. Blue Springs scored two in the eighth to take the win.

Tinley Lucas was 1-3 with three ribbies while Wood was 2-4.

“It was good for us to see that kind of pitching,” Lampkin said.

Washington is 20-1 this season.

“We’re trying to continue to improve every game,” he said.

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