Carroll County Softball falls short at Floyd County during a three games in four day stretch, 9-2

Floyd – Carroll County High School Softball and Floyd County were locked into a pitchers duel into the bottom of the fifth inning, but the Buffaloes broke it open late for a 9-2 victory Tuesday night.

Emma Harman held the home team in check through four plus innings. The score remained 1-0 until a series of base hits had veteran Coach Rick Nester dusting off quotes from the Baseball classic book of thoughts.

” I was telling the team afterwards that the game can be funny that way,” said Nester ” We were hitting the ball on the nose but right at their fielders and they were hitting seeing eye flairs that fell in between.”

Playing on a chili night 🌙 and for the second consecutive night, Nester knew that his team was in for a challenge against the 🐃. Holly Miller, Faith Clontz and Brooke Webb are all recovering from injuries but there’s still plenty of talent left on the field, just not on the bench in ways of substitution.

Floyd County broke the game open with a five run rally in the bottom of the fifth inning. Nester did everything he could to slow down the momentum, including having Addie Greene take over inside the Circle, swapping places with Harman.

Floyd County added three more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to push its lead out to 9-0 but the Cavaliers did answer back in their final at bat.

Natalie Burress and Greene started the rally with base hits with Bayleigh Allen following with a RBI single. The efforts didn’t stop after the two runs as Carroll County loaded the bases and Harman stepped to the plate.

” The ball Emma hit there at the end was a line shot right back up the middle,” noted Nester. ” But their pitcher got her glove on it, knocked it down and they made the final out. If that one gets through, we have ourselves a ball game.”

While Nester is never happy in defeat, he was pleased with the effort that his team showed versus the Buffaloes.

” We played well defensively across the lineup and pitched well,” said Nester. ” The girls took good swings and battled against a very good pitcher. We will see how we do on Thursday night.”

Carroll County (4-5) will get one day off before heading over to Stuart on Thursday night to face Patrick County High School in a JV & Varsity doubleheader.