Lady Bulldogs split pair of district games

• Wortham shortstop Dallas Hoag snags a ground ball during a game against Hubbard at Wortham on Tuesday, March 19. The Lady Bulldogs split two games last week and are 3-3 in district play. Photo by Jennifer Lansford/Fairfield Recorder

The Wortham softball team split a pair of games last week.

The Lady Bulldogs lost to Hubbard, 13-1, and defeated Frost, 10-0. Both games were stopped due to the 10-run mercy rule.

Against Frost, Wortham scored one run in the first inning and pulled away with four in the home half of the second. They added three in the third and two in the fourth.

Megan Cryer pitched the five-inning shutout to get the win. She allowed four hits and struck out six batters.

Madison Newhouse was 2-for-3 and scored three runs for Wortham. Katelynn Spain had two hits, including a double, scored two runs and drove in one.

Johanna Contreras had a hit and knocked in three runs. Dakota Butler had a double and drove in two runs. Emory Russell scored two runs. Dallas Hoag also drove in two runs with a hit.

The win improved Wortham’s record to 3-3 in District 14-2A and 7-10 overall.

The Lady Bulldogs were scheduled to play at Italy on Tuesday, March 26. They will return to action Friday, March 29, when they travel to Abbott for a district game at noon.

HUBBARD 13, WORTHAM 1

Hubbard scored five runs in each of the third and fifth innings to pull away from Wortham in a district game at Wortham.

Hubbard outhit the Lady Bulldogs 11-4 and took advantage of seven Wortham errors.

Wortham took a short-lived lead with a run in the bottom of the first inning. Spain got on base via a hit and scored on a single by Gracie Winstead.

But that was all the offense Wortham could muster. Hubbard took the lead with two runs in the top of the second inning and erupted for five in the third inning.

Spain had two of Wortham’s four hits, including a double. Winstead with a single and Butler with a double had Wortham’s other hits.

Cryer pitched four innings and allowed eight hits and eight runs, of which four were earned. She struck out two and did not walk a batter.

Spain pitched one inning, giving up three hits and five unearned runs. She fanned one and did not walk a batter.