Okarche softball team battled valiantly, but fell short in the regional tournament where their season ended Friday afternoon, Oct. 4.
The Lady Warriors started their day by holding the home team to a scoreless seventh inning before scoring in the top of the inning Friday in their battle to stay alive in the regional tournament.
Callie Cramer scored on an RBI from Brittney Darst, and Okarche led Binger-Oney Friday 1-0 in the bottom of the seventh inning with two outs. It was their first game of the day Friday. A double with two outs from Binger-Oney put a baserunner at second with freshman Lawson Geheb pitching. But then a ground ball ended the game in the Warriors favor.
They needed to win two more games to advance to the state tournament.
Friday afternoon, the Lady Warriors lost to Cheyenne-Reydon 5-0 in the second game of the day.
The team pulled off an opening round win in the regional tournament the day before on Thursday, Oct. 4, but then lost the second game when their comeback bid was turned away.
The next game will be at noon Friday against Binger-Oney.
Okarche downed Binger-Oney Thursday 7-1 at Binger-Oney. The next game was a 6-5 defeat to Cheyenne Reydon. The Lady Warriors mounted a comeback from a 6-run deficit. Belle Beam had two hits in four at bats. The team will play next on Friday and need to win three games to advance to the state tournament.
In the first game, in the bottom of the first inning, Lawson Gehen doubled, and a Binger-Oney error led to the first run.
Okarche’s Belle Beam and Geheb had RBI singles.
Geheb struck out two more batters for the year.
Lawson Geheb, Okarche’s freshman softball pitcher, kept Carnegie scoreless through four innings Thursday in the Class A district tournament, then the offense got rolling.
Okarche won their first district tournament game Thursday, Sept. 26 against Carnegie 3-0. They beat Carnegie 5-4 in the second game to claim the title and move to the regional tournament this week.
Meanwhile, Okarche’s baseball team defeated Roff 12-2 in the first game of the regional tournament at home Thursday.
Okarche scored five runs on five hits in the bottom of the fifth inning in the game against Roff. Easton Roby singled, scoring two runs. Brett Carnott singled, scoring two runs. And Jett Mueggenborg singled, scoring one run.
Carnott earned the win on the mound.
In the second game for the baseball team Thursday, Okarche beat Hydro-Eakly 8-2. Easton Roby earned the win.
The team won the best two out of three games Thursday over Geronimo, 22-0 and then 18-0, and with the district tournament championship and with the regional tournament championship advances to the state tournament.
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