OXFORD --- The Wicksburg Panthers have forced a second championship game in the Class 2A state softball series.
Behind a nine-run fourth inning, Wicksburg defeated Hatton 14-6, forcing the teams to play a second game late Wednesday.
Lana Carpenter started the inning by reaching on an error. Barnes followed with a run-scoring single. Dahlia Ganz walked and Abbie Ellenburg singled to load the bases. Sarah Turvin singled to score two, bringing the Panthers to within a run. After a ground out, Carpenter tripled to center to score Cochran. A batter later, Barnes crushed her two-run homer to left to make it 11-6.
The Panthers closed the gap to 3-2 on a Cochran RBI single, but the Hornets again answered with three runs to go up 6-2. The Hornet scoring came on a three-run inside-the-park homer by Maille Yarbrough, who hit a liner in the gap that Wicksburg’s centerfielder drove for and just missed. The left fielder tripped over the centerfielder, allowing the runners to keep racing around the bases.
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