By Ryan Davenport, WSON Sports Correspondent 

The Henderson County Lady Colonels faced off against the Webster County Lady Trojans in a 6th District Rivalry Game in Henderson.

Lady Colonel sophomore pitcher Anna Kemp struck out the side in the top of the 1st inning. 

The Lady Colonels would strike first as in the bottom of the 1st inning the Lady Colonels would score from 2 singles and 1 triple as the Lady Colonels would have a 3-0 lead heading into the top of the 2nd inning. 

A RBI single from senior second baseman Anna Willett gave the Lady Colonels a 4-0 lead heading into the top of the 3rd inning. 

A solo home run by Lady Colonel senior first baseman Kendal Hargrove and a 2-run home run from junior catcher Hallie McCracken that gave the Lady Colonels a 7-0 lead heading into the top of the 4th inning. 

A single led to a run scoring from the Lady Colonels in the bottom of the 4th inning to give them a 8-0 lead over the Lady Trojans heading into the 5th.

The Lady Colonels scored a run in the 5th and a walk off home run by senior shortstop JaMaya Byrum in the 6th to give the Lady Colonels the 11-0 shutout win against the Lady Trojans in 6 innings. The Lady Colonels improve to (20-4) on the season while the Lady Trojans fall to (13-6).

 

Lady Colonel’s player with some notable stats was senior shortstop JaMaya Byrum who was 2 for 4 with 3 RBI’s, triple, and 1 home run on the night. Senior first baseman Kendal Hargrove was 3 for 4 with 1 RBI and a home run while junior left fielder Alyse Rollings was 2 for 4 with a triple. Senior second baseman Anna Willett was 2 for 4 with 2 RBI’s while junior catcher Hallie McCracken was 2 for 3 with 3 RBI’s while hitting a home run on the night.

 

Lady Colonels sophomore pitcher Anna Kemp in 6 innings allowed 1 hit and 0 runs while walking only one batter and recorded 13 strikeouts on the night. 

 

As a team, the Lady Colonels scored 11 runs and recorded 13 hits, 9 RBI’s, 1 double, 2 triples, 3 home runs, 6 stolen bases on the night.

 

As a team, the Lady Trojans recorded 1 hit and committed 2 errors on the night.

Player of the game for the Lady Colonels was senior shortstop JaMaya Byrum. I asked JaMaya how she felt like she performed in the game and how her team played and she responded with this, “I’m really proud of our team. We have a great team dynamic, just the way we come out no matter who’s playing. We’ve learned a lot this season so I’m incredibly proud of the way we’ve just taken our ups and downs and kind of learned from it. We’ve adjusted a lot in practice, done a lot of things to fix key problems and it’s turned out a lot better this season.”

 

Henderson County Lady Colonels head coach Shannon Troutman talked about his team’s performance, “Well I’m proud of the girls. They came out and they did what I expected them to do and they did what they’re good enough to do and they played the way they can and I’m proud of them.” Coach Troutman talked about his sophomore pitcher on the mound Anna Kemp and how she played in the shutout, “Let me tell you she’s a bulldog. She’s got great stuff and she’s going to continue to just get better, that’s what is unbelievable she’s only a sophomore, so I’m extremely proud of her.”

 

Webster County Lady Trojans head coach Jason Scott talked about his observations on the game, “Well it was a lot better than last time. We still made a few too many mistakes, and gave them too many extra runs. Should’ve stayed in it a lot longer than that, didn’t make the adjustments at the plate like I asked them to. She was (Anna Kemp) painting that outside corner low first pitch a lot of times and we were watching too many of them, we weren’t being aggressive early at the plate like I been talking about in practice and just took a loss again.”