Brandy Jester (Georgetown, Del., Sussex Central) pitched two more complete games to post a record of 7-9. Jester has led Queens in the last 10 games.

 

 Game 1

Coker 1

Queens 2

 

Game one was all about pitching as both hurlers, Coker's Sydney Greenwalt and Jester went the distance.

 

Jester (7-8) got the win allowing just one run on three this with four strikeouts, while Greenwalt (1-2) suffered the loss allowing two runs on six hits with a strikeout.

 

Queens plated the first run of the game on a Jester RBI in the first. Coker answered with a RBI triple by Katie McElveen in the second to tie the game at one. The score remained tied through the next four innings.

 

Queens cracked Greenwalt in the top of the seventh when Brooke Spradlin (Charleston, S.C., Wando) drove in the eventual game winner, giving the Royals the 2-1 win.

 

The Royals had six hits from six different players, while Jester and Spradlin each drove in a run. Coker's three hits came from three different players.

 

Game 2

Coker 5

Queens 4

 

The second game saw much more offense. Queens took a 1-0 lead in the second after Alisha Waldrop (McDonough, Ga., Luella )hit a sac-fly to drive in Jester.

 

Coker posted five unanswered runs to hold a 5-1 lead as the Royals came to bat in the seventh.

 

Two walked runners and an error loaded the bases for Queens with just one out down. Two RBI singles, one from Megan Lathbury (Georgetown, Del., Sussex Central) and another from Kaitlyn Cheek (Richmond, Va,, JR Tucker), brought in three runs bringing Queens within one, 5-4. The Royals closed the inning leaving the tying and winning runs on base. 

Emily Poulton (Temecula, Calif., Great Oak) was 2-for-2 with a run scored and Cheek drove in two runs, while Lathbury and Waldrop each drove in a single run.

Beck Dillon (4-3) got the win going 6.1 innings, allowing four runs on five hits with six strikeouts, while Jester (7-9) took the loss. She went six innings allowing five runs on six hits.