Lady Indians score seven runs in the fifth in strange victory as Lynch has 10K in one-hittter and Duffeynator goes yard

SHARPSBURG-Mother Nature has not been kind to the East Coweta Lady Indians so far in the 2018 season.
On August 18, rain and severe lightning canceled a portion of the Georgia Dugout Club Tournament on the EC field including a matchup with North Paulding.
Two days later, games with Hampton and Westlake were postponed causintg the Lady Indians braintrust to reschedule games.
Wednesday evening, Mother Nature visited Coweta County again as thunder and lightning delayed the varsity contest between the Lady Indians and the Whitewater Lady Wildcats..
After 30 minutes, the game was able to get underway until lightning invaded the area with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
The game was stopped and after a brief discussion was called as the Lady Wildcats coaching staff elected to not wait to resume and the game was entered as a 7-0 forfeit victory for the Lady Indians.
The win improved the overall record to 10-0 as the Lady Indians won their 46th straight game.
While the final goes official as a 7-0 win, the statistics count as the Lady Indians assumed a 7-1 lead when the lightning arrived.
In the action on the field, Kelley Lynch was following her sterling performance from Monday as she fired a perfect game in a 6-0 win over Hampton.
Dreams of another perfect game were dashed immediately as Whitewater leadoff batter Kyee Ricks reached on a walk and stole two bases.
However, Ricks was stranded at third as Lynch recorded a pair of strikeouts and induced a weak pop back to the pitching rubber.
Over the next couple of innings Lynch was in control with more strikeouts and a pair of groundouts including one hit back to her in the circle.
The only hit she would surrender was a bunt on the infield that stopped rolling by Lily Griffith to open the top of the fourth inning.
Griffith would steal second and come around to score on a throwing error and for the first time 12 innings a run was scored against Lynch despite the tally being unearned.
Undaunted, Lynch recorded a popup and two strikeouts to end the frame and had a very quick fifth inning with two strikeouts and an attempted bunt that catcher Caroline Lively picked up and threw a strike to Madison Lecuona who was covering first base on the play.
In five innings, Lynch had 10 strikeouts with a pair of assists and a putout as she was about to go to 2-0 on the season.after the fateful bottom of the fifth inning.
Lilly Agan led off with a single , stole second and came home on a double by Carmen Prior to tie the game at 1-1.
Lynch reached first on an intentional walk and Kenadie Cooper followed with a sacrifice bunt that became an error as she and the ball arrived at first at the same time with the latter going into right field.
Prior scored on the play to give EC the lead and courtesy runner Hanna Miller was sent to third on the play while Cooper went to second on the play.
Miller and Cooper would eventually score on a double by Ansley Gunter and after Katie Taylor reached on a walk, Ansley Duffey would provide the most exciting moment of the night after a pitching change was made.
Duffey, who flirted with a home run in the bottom of the second inning, responded after the pitching change by hitting a 1-2 offering over the left center field fence for a three run home run and the lead was 7-1.
The home run was the first varsity shot for Duffey who was 2-for-3 in the game.
Caison Byars followed with a pinch hit single but was erased on a line drive double play than Agan came to the play for the second time in the frame.
With a count of 2-0, play was stopped and after a few contentious moments, the game was called and the Lady Indians declared the winner by forfeit.
Next for the Lady Indians is a trip to Cobb County to face the Campbell Lady Spartans on Wednesday September 5 in a Region 2-AAAAAAA contest.