WEST SALEM — The West Salem High School softball team used a four-run third inning to pull away from Aquinas and set up a 7-3 nonconference victory over the visiting Blugolds on Friday.
The Panthers (2-0) scored all of their runs in the first four innings to give junior pitcher Josie Brudos plenty of a cushion the rest of the way. Brudos finished with 11 strikeouts and three walks while allowing five hits and two earned runs during a complete game.
Senior second baseman MacLaine Heilman was 4 for 4 with two doubles, a stolen base and a run scored for West Salem, which finished with 10 hits and took advantage of four Aquinas errors for three unearned runs.
Senior first baseman Makena Ihle was 3 for 4 with two runs driven in, Brudos stole two bases and scored twice, and Megan Johnson and Briauna Mathison each scored twice for the Panthers.
Tessa Miskowski and Abby Ziolkowski each drove in a run for the Blugolds (0-3), who scored all three of their runs in the sixth and seventh innings.
Caledonia 5, La Crescent-Hokah 0
LA CRESCENT — Avery Augedahl pitched her second shutout in as many days and struck out 14 during a five-hitter this time after no-hitting Fillmore Central on Thursday. She has 20 strikeouts and five hits — all singles — allowed over 11 shutout innings this season.
Augedahl and catcher Adrienne Lange were both 3 for 5, center fielder Nora Staggemeyer was 2 for 3 and first baseman Elsa Blum 2 for 4 for Caledonia. Augedahl and Blum both drove in two runs, Staggemeyer and Lange doubled, Vivian Kittleson tripled and Blum slugged a home run.
Augedahl also stole two bases.
OTHER SOFTBALL SCORES
Arcadia 8, Logan 3
Central 6, Luther 0
