Wynford bats stay hot in district semifinal drubbing of South Central
The Royals have scored 31 runs across two postseason games this spring, two more than their eye-popping offensive explosion a year prior.
SHELBY - Last spring Wynford caught fire in the postseason scoring 29 runs across the sectional championship and district semifinal. And the two-seeded Royals are back at it again. Fresh off a big win over Buckeye Central in sectionals that saw them score 18 runs, they added even more in a decisive 13-2 Division VI district semifinal win over No.
3 South Central Tuesday evening. "The bats are alive and they're not gonna stop," Wynford coach Chelsea Rice said. Wasting no time at all scoring three runs in the first and two more in the second, an eight-run third inning highlighted by junior Erin Wolfe's first career home run — it was actually a grand slam — put the game out of reach for the Trojans.
"I was just looking for a run to get on, so I guess that's more than I expected. " Wolfe said. "It was right down the middle, so I really just swung and hoped for the best.
" The last few weeks have been somewhat of a renaissance for Wolfe who struggled at times this season on both sides of the ball. "We moved Erin to DH because we knew Ellie (Nash) could play third or first, she has a quick glove," Rice said. "Erin needed to focus on either offense or defense, and the bat has been hot for the last six games as everybody saw tonight, so she'll keep (being) DH.
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