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August 12, 2009

Red Hot Stew-Stras Starts 4-0

JOHN CURTIS - Daily Union Sports Editor

After starting 3-0 last weekend, the Stew-Stras Junior High softball, leveled Altamont Lutheran at home on Tuesday, 18-3.

Altamont Lutheran looked ready to play, but it was the Stars that shot out of the starting blocks and drew first blood. Lutheran scored, but the Stars

got the taste of blood and never let up.

Stew-Stras pitcher Courtney Schultz gave up a solo walk in the first. Catcher Lindsay Burton scooped up a sacrifice bunt by the next batter and threw her out as the base-runner was running and went on to third on the play. Schultz bore down and struck out the next player, then got the third out on a ground ball, second to first.

Stew-Stras went to the plate and quickly smacked two extra base hits in a 3-run inning. After a lead-off ground out, Brittani Tabbert lasered a triple down the line at third. Haylee Mathis, already with two homer runs in three games, then took the first pitch and sent it over the head of the left fielder, who fell down trying to recover. Mathis slid in safe at home on the throw from the outfield, 2-0 Stars.

Burton hit a hard shot to shortstop and reached on an error. She was out stealing second on a great throw from the catcher. But, Schultz then worked a walk, stole second, and stole third. Schultz then stole home on the pitcher and slid safe as the catcher didn’t block off the plate.

The Stars gave up two runs in the 2nd, but then Stew-Stras uncorked a 5-run 2nd of their own, upping their lead to six runs, 8-2. Altamont Lutheran got one run back in the third, but once again the Stars out paced them with a 3-run frame, 11-3. The Rockets ran out of fuel in the fourth, and the Stars saw a chance to end the game early. A 7-run 4th did just that, enough to eclipse the 15-run, quick-kill rule.

In addition to Mathis’ third home run in four games and Tabbert’s triple, Burton was a home run shy of the cycle for the second game in a row. Burton had a single, double and triple against Charleston. Against Lutheran, Burton had a single, a double, and two triples. lead-off hitter Kendall Knop also smacked a pair of doubles and scored three runs. Tabbert scored four times, Mathis three and Megan Cress twice.

Schultz, undefeated, won her third game, striking out six in four innings. In three outings, Schultz has allowed just seven runs in 16 innings of work.

Stew-Stras 18, Altamont Lutheran 3

A.L. 021 0—3

S.S. 353 7—18

Stew stats: Kendall Knop 1B, 2 2Bs, 3 runs; Brittani Tabbert 2 1Bs, 3B, 4 runs; Haylee Mathis HR, 2 BBs, HBP, 3 runs; Lindsay Burton 1B, 2B, 2 3Bs; Courtney Schultz 1B, BB, run; Kennedy Ferris BB, run; Baylee Quast BB, run; Samantha Hammack BB, run; Brittany Lowe BB, 1B, 2 runs; Megan Cress 1B, BB, 2 runs. Pitching (W) Schultz 4 IP, 3 runs, 6 Ks.

Undefeated Stew-Stras travels to Ramsey on Thursday for a 4 p.m. start, and competes in the Beecher City tournament on Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

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