Overland Park, KS – Indian Hills Softball tied a season-high with 13 wins in a game two win over Johnson County Community College to salvage an afternoon split with the Cavaliers on Monday. The Warriors dropped game one 4-3 in eight innings before dropping Johnson County 13-5 in five innings in game two.

 

The Warriors connected on 16 hits between the two games as sophomore Destiny Lewis (Indianola, IA/Indianola) recorded four hits and seven RBI in the non-league doubleheader. With the split, the Warriors move to 8-6 on the year.

 

Sophomore Madie Anderson (Mt. Pleasant, IA/Winfield Mt. Union) held the Cavaliers scoreless through the first four frames of a 0-0 ballgame before the Warriors struck first in the top of the fifth. Lewis drove a 2-0 pitch to center for a two-run double to put the Warriors ahead. The sophomore came around to score on a Hannah Simpson (Fairfield, IA/Fairfield) single to left for the 3-0 lead.

 

The Cavaliers responded with a single run in the bottom half of the fifth before taking the lead with two runs in the sixth inning. After a scoreless seventh, the two sides went to extra innings only to see the Cavaliers capitalize with the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth.

 

Freshman Tatum Aragon (Fort Collins, CO/Fort Collins) went 2-4 with a run scored. Anderson struck out four batters in 4.1 innings of work in the circle.

 

A strong first inning saw the Warriors plate three runs in the top half of the frame. Lewis delivered the game's first run on an RBI single before a bases loaded walk and a fielder's choice pushed the lead to 3-0.

Johnson County responded with two runs in the bottom half of the inning before adding a run in the second frame to tie the contest at three-all.

 

Indian Hills erupted for a six-run third to pull away from the home team. A pair of errors led to two runs before Aragon drove in a run with double to center. Lewis followed up with a two-run triple for a 9-3 Indian Hills lead. 

Lewis tacked on a two-run double in the fifth before Jenna Lemley (Troy Mills, IA/North Linn) drove in Lewis and Claire Tipton (Unionville, MO/Putnam County) to extend the lead to 13-5. Thea Banning (Winterset, IA/Winterset) tossed a scoreless fifth to give Indian Hills the run-rule victory and the freshman's second victory of the year.

 

Lewis went 3-4 at the plate, the sophomore's first three-hit game of the year and 19th of her career. Tipton scored three runs in the freshman's first start of the year while Lemley added a pair of hits at the plate. Banning allowed just two base hits in two innings of relief work for the win.

 

After a series of postponements and cancellations, the Warriors are now set to open up Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) play at Iowa Western Community College this weekend. The four-game weekend series has been moved up to a Friday/Saturday matchup with first pitch scheduled for 2:00 PM Friday.