Prairie knocks off Marion, 12-2
Pity the Marion softball girls.
They’re on a seven-game losing streak. One of their three pitchers is done for the season and another is suffering from a painful stress fracture.
And in their final regular-season game Tuesday night, they had a makeup date with the suddenly slugging Prairie Hawks from the powerful Mississippi Valley Conference.
Coming into the contest on Prairie's field, their records were reversed: Prairie 24-12, Marion 12-24.
The night before, Prairie shellacked Dubuque Hempstead, 13-1 and 13-2, in games cut short by the mercy rule.
And before the Marion varsity girls could take the field Tuesday, they watched their junior varsity team get shell-shocked in three innings.
All the signs were there for another blowout.
The Indians did make a game of it, for one inning anyway, until Prairie’s big bats unloaded for 10 runs in the next three innings.
But give the Marion girls credit. With their backs against the wall, they rallied to score twice in the fifth inning and forced the Hawks to take another at-bat in order to win, 12-2.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:47
