The streak grows to 21 after wins over West Laurens, North Gwinnett

                                         

Kelley Lynch and Aniston Wright combined for 14 strikeouts tosed a no-hitter in the Lady Indians' 7-0 win over West Laurens Lady Raiders while Rachel Vaughan had a season high 11 strikeouts in a 7-3 win over the North Gwinnett Lady Bulldogs.

SUWANEE-The trip to Gwinnett County on Friday was profitable for the East Coweta Lady Indians as they swept two games to run their unbeaten streak to 21 games.

The Lady Indians will look to add to the total Saturday morning when they travel to Buford to face the Lady Wolves at 9:00 and will face the Calhoun Lady Yellowjackets at 11:00.

In the first game, Kelley Lynch and Aniston Wright combined for a no-hit, 14 strikeout day in a 7-0 win over he West Laurens Lady Raiders while in game two, Rachel Vaughan set a season high for strikeouts with 11 as the Lady Indians defeated the North Gwinnett Lady Bulldogs 7-3 on the latter’s home field.

The opener went into the favor of EC as Lilly Agan reached on a triple then scored on a single by Olivia Davis who stole second and moved around to score on a pair of groundouts.

The score 2-0 as Lynch and West Laurens starter Payten Strickland were retiring batters at quick pace until the bottom of the fourth inning as EC added two more runs after the first two batters were retired.

Vaughan reached on a single and after walks to Wright and Hanna Miller, Ansley Gunter hit ball that went between the second baseman and shortstop.

In the bottom of the sixth inning the Lady Indians finished scoring as Vaughan reached on a leadoff single and after Caroline Lively reached on a two out walk, Carmen Prior laced an offering from Strickland into the outfield for a two-run double.

Meanwhile, Lynch was doing her thing with the strikeout ball with a few walks and a coupe of hit batters as the only way the Lady Raiders were able to get on base.

Wright took over in the top of the seventh inning and made it look easy as she retired the first two batters on groundouts before closing the no-hitter with a strikeout.    

In the nightcap, the Lady Bulldogs took an early lead in the bottom of the first inning with an unearned run  but the lead didn’t last long as the Lady Indians came back in the top of the third inning.

Prior and Agan reached on consecutive one out singles and Davis reached on a walk to load the bases and Lynch followed with a two-run single.

Ashlynn Gunter followed with an RBI groundout and Vaughan aided her own cause with a double to left field.

The Lady Bulldogs came back with a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame to cut the margin to 4-3, but the Lady Indians got one of the runs back in the top of the fourth inning as Hanna Miller reached on a one out double and Agan followed with a single that scored pinch runner Caison Byars.

The Lady Indians added to the lead in the top of sixth inning lined a shot over the left center field fence for a solo home run and added one more in the top of the seventh inning as Lynch reached on a two out double and Ashlynn Gunter followed with a triple to right field that scored pinch runner Katie Taylor.

Vaughan finished the game in the bottom of the as she induced a pair of groundouts to Davis at second and ended the game by recording her 11th strikeout.