Ithaca Softball had some tough season openers facing off with Freeland on Friday and Clare on Monday. Below are the results.
Freeland Game 1: Score: 4-7 Loss
Top hitters: Ivy Davenport, Faith Fisher, Hayden Whitmore and Emma Janes who each added two hits(Fisher, Davenport, and Whitmore with doubles)
Davenport pitched 5 innings with 9 strikeouts and Kennedi Ryan relieved pitching 1 inning.
Freeland Game 2: Score: 6-5 Win
Top hitters: Kennedi Ryan (2 hits, one HR), Davenport, Fisher, Alyssa McPherson, Whtimore, and Janes each added a hit
Ryan pitched the game only giving up 2 earned runs and had 6 strikeouts
Clare Game 1: 2-4 Loss
Top hitters: Ryan, Fisher, McPherson each with two hits
Davenport pitched giving up only 1 ER and had 5 SO
Clare Game 2: 11-14 Loss
Top Hitters: Davenport, Emmalee Shankel, Fisher (each with 3 hits) Fisher and Davenport had 2 doubles, Shankel had 1 and Fisher had a HR.
Ryan pitched 1 inning and Maeli Akin came in for the relief, striking out 6.