The Warren County Middle School softball team saw its three-game winning streak to start the season snapped on its home field Tuesday night.Coffee County earned a 5-0 shutout victory as the Lady Pioneers finished the game with one hit while dropping to 3-1 this season.Warren County had used a potent mix of clutch hitting, sterling pitching and solid defense to down Shelbyville twice and DeKalb County once in the opening week of the regular season, but Coffee County had the same blueprint to winning Tuesday and executed it better.The Lady Raiders capitalized on a pair of Lady Pioneer errors to start the second inning while putting two runs on the board against Warren County starter Maddie Cantrell. Coffee County added another run in the third to put the Lady Pioneers in a big hole going into their final two at-bats.Being at the plate looked like the last place Warren County wanted to be as the offense was stagnant. Before the fourth inning, the only two Lady Pioneer batters who reached base were Shonacye Rutledge and Marah Wanamaker on second-inning walks.Warren County had a chance to rally in the bottom of the fourth inning when Coffee County finally showed a crack on defense.
Lady Pioneers suffer first loss