Leader Staff
Eleven errors and eight walks doomed the Gresham softball team in an 11-1, five-inning road loss to Tri-County on Thursday.
Junior Kamille Davids pitched a complete game for the Wildcats, allowing five hits and eight walks.
“We had a really young team out there,” Gresham head coach Amanda Reindl said. “They did have some pretty good hits.”
Between the walks and the errors, which accounted for 19 free base runners over four innings for the Penguins, Reindl said that the Wildcats “strung together runs for them.”
And it wasn’t just the defense that struggled.
Davids had the lone RBI for Gresham, and Mackenzie Hoffman added two hits. The two combined for the team’s three hits.
The one run was Gresham’s lowest output of the season; the Wildcats averaged over 14 runs per game over the first five games of the season. They had four runs in a 14-4, five-inning loss to Rosholt earlier this week.
The Wildcats moved to 4-2 overall and in Central Wisconsin Conference-10 play and into a tie for third place in the conference.