Adkins, Starr carry Logan to 8-0 mercy rule win over Liberty (Raleigh)
- Bill Lusk
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Bill Lusk | WVOW Sports
CHARLESTON Slow starts have been something that Logan coach has been accustomed to this season and Wednesday was no different as his top-ranked Lady Wildcats used a pair of home runs from Addison Starr and Myleigh Adkins.
Logan (23-7) plated a pair of runs in the third and fourth innings and tacked on three more runs in the fifth to mercy rule Liberty (Raleigh) 8-0 in five innings Wednesday in the Class AA state softball tournament at The Rock at Little Creek Park.
“I am getting used to it, I feel like we are a fourth, fifth inning team and I start scratching my head at the third then it’s like all of a sudden after we go around the lineup once they figure it out,” Curry said. “I don’t get too nervous anymore but I would rather do it at the beginning than the fourth or fifth inning.”
Adkins struck out 14 of the 18 hitters she faced, gave up two hits and hit one in five innings in the circle to improve her record to 19-2 on the season.
To put into perspective how dominant Adkins was in the circle, only one out was recorded in the field, which occurred in the third inning when Emma Hartshorn grounded out to Lena Setser at first base.
“They got confidence in her and when she is pitching like that, it’s hard not to and my biggest thing is keeping them awake,” Curry said. “She is not unhittable, but she is such a good pitcher who moves and spins the ball good.”
An Addison Richardson single in the first inning scored Lacy Curry from second base to give Logan a 1-0 lead.
Logan failed to capitalize on an opportunity in the second inning to break the game open early. Melody Rozzell and Curry singled with one out, but Adkins and Ashlin Brumfield flew out to end the inning.
In the third inning, Starr got the Lady Wildcats back on the board with a two-run home over the left-center field fence to put Logan up 3-0.
For Starr, a freshman, it was her third home run of the season and one that provided the Lady Wildcats with a spark.
“She did great at the plate waiting for something to hit,” Curry said. “and then she crushed the ball.”
In the fourth, Adkins drove in Curry with a run-scoring single to left and Brumfield singled to right to plate courtesy runner Daisy Tomblin and extend the Lady Wildcats lead to 5-0.
Adkins put the finishing touches on the scoring in the fifth with a two out, three-run home run, a cloud scrapper that stayed inside the left field foul pole to put Logan up 8-0.
Curry had flashbacks of game six of the 1975 World Series between the Reds and Red Sox when Carlton Fisk forced a game seven with a walk-off home run off the foul pole.
“I wasn’t going to watch it, because I thought it was just going to be over my head, (and) I don’t know if that’s Carlton Fisk back in the day or whatever,” Curry said. “but I was blowing in the air trying to get it to go over. That was a moonshot, I’ve seen them harder, but that one looked like a fly ball.”
Stella Brown had a second inning bunt single and Kanyon Green a leadoff double in the fifth to account for Liberty’s (18-9) two hits.
Maddie Cox pitched five innings for the Raiders. She allowed eight runs on 12 hits, struck out two and walked one.
Adkins had three hits and four RBIs, Curry had two hits and scored two runs, Rozzell had two hits and Starr one hit and two RBIs for Logan.