Errors cost softball Indians at KP
Published 9:01 pm Thursday, April 27, 2017
KINGWOOD — Despite 10 strikeouts by Alexis LaBure, Port Neches-Groves could not give her run support Thursday and dropped the first game of a best-of-three 5A bidistrict softball playoff.
PNG (22-8) left six runners on base and outhit KP 7-5, but five errors did the Indians in. KP score a run each in the third through fifth innings and added two more in the sixth, with a solo home run in the fifth and triple in the sixth doing the most damage.
Kaitlyn Boudreaux went 2 for 3 to lead PNG at the plate. Marlee Barnett drove in a run, Callie Jourdan scored the lone run and stole three bases, and Brooke Smith, Kasidee Sartin, Sydnee Adams, Jordan and Barnett each had one hit.
PNG will host KP at 5 p.m. Friday and must win that game to force Game 3, which would immediately follow.
About I.C. Murrell
I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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