By Staff
FROM STAFF REPORTS
They got one win, but the opportunities were there for the Jefferson Davis Community College Lady Warhawks softball team to pick up a couple more in a four-game road swing to Snead State and Gadsden State.
JDCC (4-12) split Tuesday's twinbill against Snead State with a 3-2 loss in the opener and a 10-5 victory in the nightcap.
The Lady Warhawks got three hits from Jayla Davis and Amberly Whitworth in game one.
Davis and Whitworth both had singles along with Tanna Fontes when JDCC took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Snead State had a 2-1 lead in the top of the third when Davis and Whitworth singled again along with Kayla Galloway to produce the tying run.
The game stayed tied until the bottom of the seventh when Snead State won the game with an error on a single followed by a game-winning RBI single.
Whitworth suffered the tough-luck loss, as she scattered six hits in six and two-thirds innings to go along with eight strikeouts.
JDCC scored a season-high 10 runs in game two when it notched a 10-5 victory.
The Lady Warhawks trailed 5-1 headed into the top of the sixth inning when it rallied with four runs to tie the game. Galloway and Emily Davenport both had RBI singles in the frame, while Jodi Lisenby drew a bases-loaded walk. Another run scored when Jayla Davis reached on an error.
JDCC continued its offensive outbreak in the top of the seventh when it plated five more runs. The key blow was a two-run single by Galloway. Lisenby, Erica Davis and Fontes also had singles to fuel the rally.
Galloway and Fontes both had two hits and three RBIs to lead the Lady Warhawks. Kim Carter also had two hits, while Chasity Nicholson had one hit and two RBIs.
Whitworth worked the final three innings and struck out three to get the win.
Gadsden State scored six runs in the bottom of the first inning and never looked back in an 8-0 win over JDCC in Wednesday's game one.
The Lady Warhawks got a double from Jayla Davis and singles by Galloway, Whitworth, Jerri Edwards, Fontes and Erica Davis.
Whitworth was the losing hurler.
Gadsden State rallied for a 6-4 win in game two.
JDCC took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a two-run double by Whitworth and an RBI single by Davenport.
Gadsden State erased that lead when it plated a pair of runs in the bottom of the first and another in the second to tie the game at 3-3. The home team took the lead for good when it scored twice in the third inning to go up 5-3.
The only other JDCC had after the two it got in the first inning came in the sixth when Edwards singled and later scored to pull the Lady Warhawks within 6-4 at that point.
Carter took the loss.
JDCC was supposed to have played a doubleheader at Chattahoochee Valley Saturday, but those games were postponed. No makeup date has been set. The Lady Warhawks are off until Thursday when they visit Okaloosa-Walton for a 4 p.m. doubleheader.
Tuesday's game one
JDCC 101 000 0 - 2 9 1
Snead State 020 000 1 - 3 6 2
Game two
JDCC 001 004 5 - 10 12 1
Snead State 011 210 0 – 5 10 1
Wednesday's game one
JDCC 000 00 - 0 6 4
Gadsden State 620 0X - 8 6 1
Game two
JDCC 300 001 0 - 4 3 5
Gadsden State 212 010 X - 6 9 3