VINTON - The Marion High School softball team dropped a pair of tight Wamac Conference games at Vinton-Shellsburg on Monday.

Vinton-Shellsburg won the first game, 3-2, in eight innings and captured the nightcap 4-1.

Marion scored in the top of the seventh inning in the opener to tie the game at 2-2 and force extra innings, but Vinton-Shellsburg scored in the bottom of the eighth to win it.

Allison Scott went 3-for-3 for the Indians in the opener, scored a run and drove in a run. Beth Knapp had two hits.

GAME 1

MARION (2)
Fiser, 3b, 3 0 1 0, Vanourney, 2b, 3 0 0 1, Knapp, 1b, 4 0 2 0, Mohr, ss, 4 0 1 0, Perkins, c, 4 0 0 0, Rausch, lf, 4 1 1 0, Nathem, cf, 2 0 0 0, Goemaat, p, 2 0 0 0, Scott, rf, 3 1 3 1, Whitney, 2b, 1 0 0 0. Totals 30 2 8 2.

VINTON-SHELLSBURG (3)
Stueck, cf, 3 1 1 0, Henderson, 2b, 2 0 0 0, Strong, ss, 4 0 1 1, Stainbrook, dp, 4 1 1 0, Hanson, 3b, 3 0 0 0, Lyons, lf, 4 0 2 1, McKenna, 1b, 1 0 0 0, Clemans, c, 3 0 1 0, Ankney, rf, 2 1 0 0, Cornell, p, 0 0 0 0. Totals 26 3 6 2.

Marion                  010 000 10 - 2 8
Vinton-Shellsburg   002 000 01 - 3 6

W - Cornell. L - Fiser. 2B - Fiser, Knapp, Rausch, Strong.

GAME 2

MARION (1)
Fiser, p, 2 0 0 0, Rausch, 3b, 3 0 1 0, Knapp, 1b, 2 1 0 0, Mohr, ss, 2 0 1 1, Vanourney, 2b, 2 0 1 0, Perkins, c, 3 0 0 0, Nathem, cf, 2 0 0 0, Bacon, lf, 3 0 0 0, Scott, rf, 2 0 0 0. Totals 21 1 3 1.

VINTON-SHELLSBURG (4)
Stueck, c, 3 1 1 0, Robertson, dp, 3 2 1 0, Strong, ss, 2 0 1 0, Stainbrook, rf, 2 1 2 3, Henderson, 2b, 3 0 1 0, Lyons, lf, 3 0 0 0, Hanson, 3b, 2 0 0 0, McKenna, 1b, 1 0 0 1, Ankney, cf, 3 0 0 0, Noren, p, 0 0 0 0. Totals 22 4 6 4.

Marion                 000 001 0 - 1 3
Vinton-Shellsburg  100 102 x - 4 6

W - Noren. L - Fiser.