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Ladycats revenge tour continues

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The Aledo Ladycats softball team is on a mission. After sweeping the first round, the Ladycats took on the Mansfield Legacy Broncos (22-8) in the area round and continued their dominance by sweeping Legacy 12-1 and 13-1.

Aledo (28-2) will face Colleyville Heritage (27-3) in a best-of-three series, starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, at Aledo. Game two will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 13, at Colleyville Heritage High School. If needed, game three will be at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, at Boswell High School in Saginaw.

“Even though we beat them last year I still feel like there’s unfinished business,” head coach Heather Myers said about the upcoming series. “The girls are ready. The girls are fired up and I know they’re going to come out and play. They have been itching to play Colleyville again.”

It was a rather inauspicious start to the second round against Mansfield Legacy, when the Broncos scored early in the first inning. However, before Legacy could even record an out, the first four Aledo batters got on base and scored.

Presley Hull added two more runs in the second inning by doubling home Texas Ray and Madysen Boutwell, making the score 6-1.

Nathalie Touchet settled in at pitcher after giving up the early run and did not allow another run and struck out four over five innings pitched.

Three more Aledo runs scored in the fourth inning, and Marissa Powell walked it off with a two-run double in the fifth to end the game by run-rule.

“Marissa literally told them to get ready to run on the field,” Myers recalled. “She literally called her walk off. The girls are dialed in and they’re fun to watch.”

Game two got off to a slower start, but still Hull was up to the task and hit a solo home run in the second inning, giving the Ladycats a 1-0 lead.

The Broncos tied it up in the bottom of the second inning on a passed ball, but Aledo went right back to work scoring three runs in the top of the third and adding four more in the fourth, making it 8-1.

Powell and Macy Graf hit back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning to bring the score to 10-1 before the Ladycats scored three more times in the seventh inning to bring the final score to 13-1, closing out the series.

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