BROOKINGS The Brookings softball team took down Watertown 7-3 in the Bobcats home opener on Tuesday afternoon at the Southbrook Softball Complex.
The Bobcats got out to a 6-0 lead and then held off the Arrows in the later innings.
Brookings scored three runs in the first two innings. Kymber Buys came to the plate with one out in the bottom of the first and hit one over the center field fence to make it 1-0. Layla Erickson led off the bottom of the second with a double. Kalla Foerster was up next and she sent the ball over the center field fence as well and that made it 3-0 after two innings.
Neither team scored in the third but the Bobcats then struck for three runs in the fourth. Addy Bortnem led off the inning with a single and Morgan Norgaard followed with a double. Buys then hit her second home run of the afternoon as she hit it over the center field fence again and that pushed the Cats lead to 6-0.
Watertown scored its first run of the game in the fifth. Alayna Dettmann led off the inning with a single and then came home on a two-out double from Ellenor Hirsch.
The Arrows scored two more runs in the top of the sixth. Lauryn Hirsch hit a solo home run with one out and then K Johnson hit a two-out RBI single to cut the lead to 6-3 heading into the bottom of the sixth.
Brookings scored an insurance run in the bottom of the inning. Ella Pysk came to the plate with two outs and sent it over the center field fence yet again for the Bobcats and they led 7-3 heading into the final inning.
Ellena Hirsch led off the seventh with a single. However, the Arrows then went down one-two-three and the Bobcats came away with the victory.
Brookings had 11 hits as a team. Buys was 2-for-4 with four RBIs. Foerster was 1-for-3 with two RBIs and Pysk was 1-for-2 with an RBI. Bortnem was 2-for-2 and Norgaard was 2-for-4. Erickson was 1-for-3, Tess Burns was 1-for-2 and Ramsie Hinricher was 1-for-1.
Burns got the start in the circle for the Bobcats and pitched three innings. She gave up no hits and had three strikeouts and two walks. Pysk pitched the next three innings and gave up three runs, one earned, on six hits with no strikeouts or walks. Kinzey Grendler pitched the final inning and gave up on hit and had one strikeout and no walks.
Brookings is now 2-0 and will host Brandon Valley. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. at Southbrook Softball Complex.
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