The Warren County High School Lady Pioneers fell to Summit 6-3 despite the efforts of the Lady Pioneers to bring runs in Friday night. Warren County got a total of four strikeouts.
Lindsey Cox led off the Lady Pioneer batting order with a full-count and continued to fight off pitches, eventually hitting a long fly ball to centerfield for an out. Ty Ramirez followed Cox with a double to right field with one out. Skyler Youngblood continued the Warren County at bat with a single to score Ramirez from second base. Warren County scored before the third out to go ahead 1-0.
Erin Hollis went to work for the Lady Pioneers. Hollis was out of rhythm of sorts pitching three straight walks to load the bases for Summit. A shot to right field would score two runs for Summit and Warren County had lost its early lead 2-1 before the Lady Pioneers got out of the inning.
Abby Hutchins got a lead-off walk to start the second inning and Hollis advanced her to second base with a ground ball to shortstop. With Hutchins on second the next two Lady Pioneers went down swinging with back-to-back strikeouts.
Summit had a less successful second inning with a single and an error, but stranded runners at each base, before a fly ball caught by shortstop.
Warren County could only muster a single from Ramirez before picking up the second and third outs in the top of the third. It was better than the top of the fourth when the Lady Pioneers hit three straight ground balls, all for outs.
An out led off the fifth inning for Warren County, followed by back-to-back singles by Brittany Martin and Cox to put runners on for the Lady Pioneers. The runners on first and second advanced to second and third on a wild pitch. Ramirez grounded out to first base scoring Martin to tie the score at 2-2 and Cox advanced to third. With two outs Tackett singled to centerfield, scoring Cox, to go up 3-2 before Summit recorded out three.
Summit would not go away and after the first out picked up a base hit to left field. A wild pitch by Warren County advanced the runner to second base just before Summit doubled to score the runner and the game was knotted 3-3. Summit left two runners on when the Lady Pioneer defense clamped down.
Warren County was not able to continue its hot hitting and in the top of the sixth Hutchins drew a walk after a ground out to the pitcher. Warren County with one on and one out hit a shot straight at the Summit shortstop who pulled the trigger on a double play to end the inning for the Lady Pioneers.
Summit led off the bottom of the sixth with a single to centerfield. With one out, Summit drew a walk to put two on before a late-inning, walk-off, three-run home run ended the hopes of extra innings for Warren County. Summit defeated Warren County 6-3 Friday night.