Sunday, May 10, 2015

Ashton Gazette: Week Six


The AFC Lady Raiders started the week by hosting Freeport Aquin on Senior Night.  SM and LM celebrated their last home game of the season by helping the Lady Raiders defeat Aquin 2-1.  Aquin held a 1-0 lead until the sixth inning.  CK led off the bottom of the sixth with a triple and reached home on a pass ball to tie the score at one.  In the bottom of the seventh, CH reached on a walk and scored the game winning run on a two out double by LM.  CK led the Lady Raiders with two hits and CH and LM each added one hit.  On Thursday, the Lady Raiders traveled to Freeport to attempt the season Sweep of Aquin.  AFC had a rough first inning and Aquin took a 3-0 lead in the first and add another run in the third inning.  The Lady Raiders were held scoreless until the fifth inning.  LM started the inning with a single, BG added another single and both scored on a single by LM.  CK hit a three run home run to give the Lady Raiders a 5-4 lead.  AFC took advantage of two Aquin errors in the sixth inning and added one more run to their lead.  The Lady Raiders completed the season sweep of Aquin by defeating them 6-4.  Seven players had hits for AFC: CK, AW, BG, SM, LM, LM and CH.  The Lady Raiders finished their week by traveling to conference leading Dakota.  AFC started the game by scoring four runs and added two more in the second before being  shut out for the rest of the game.  Dakota took advantage of nineteen hits to score seventeen runs to defeat the Lady Raiders in five innings.  BG, LM and CK each had two hits and SM, LM and CH each added a hit.  The Lady Raiders are now 13-12 overall and 7-8 in conference.  AFC will finish the regular season next week with games against Pecatonica and Somanauk.  They will travel to Fulton for regionals on Tuesday, May 19th for their first round game against Sterling Newman.

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