Lynch perfect again in EC win over Northgate

Kelley Lynch fired her second perfect game in two weeks as East Coweta
defeated Northgate 8--0. She retired 14 batters by strikeout.

For the second time in as many weeks, East Coweta hurler Kelley Lynch was perfect as she kept the Northgate Lady Vikings off the bases Thursday evening in an 8-0 six inning win that extended their winning streak to 48 games.

The streak for the Lady Indians, now 12-0, will be challenged Friday at Home Plate in Peachtree City by two opponents as the Lambert Longhorns (6-7 after Thursday loss to North Forsyth) and Parkview Panthers (7-7 after Thursday win over Lakeside) come to the facility.

Meanwhile, Thursday’s game started scoreless until the Lady Indians sent 10 batters to the plate in the top of the second inning with six coming home to provide Lynch with a comfortable cushion.

Ansley Gunter and Katie Taylor reached on consecutive walks to open the frame and successfully converted a pair of double steal attempts with Gunter coming home with a head first slide that gave EC it’s first run.

Taylor, who moved to third on the Gunter steal, scored the second run of the frame on a one out single by Ashleigh Griffin.

Olivia Cook was awarded first base on catcher’s interference and Lilly Agan reached first on a walk that loaded the bases with Carmen Prior to the plate.

Prior hit a ground ball fielded by Northgate pitcher Madison Lumpp on a tough play and when she came home, the throw was wild and both Griffin and Cook scored to give the EC a 4-0 lead as Agan took third on the play.

Agan scored on a sacrifice fly to center field while Prior completed the scoring in the frame when she came home on a wild pitch.

The Lady Indians added two more runs in the top of the sixth inning with two outs as Agan and Prior reached on a infield singles with both scoring on RBI singles by Lynch and Kenadie Cooper.

Back to Lynch who proved to toss another strong outing as she retired eight of the first nine batters on strikeouts as the only non-strikeout was a flyball to Taylor in left field.

After a pair of infield flies to Gunter at first to open the fourth inning, Lynch went on another streak in which she retired six of the remaining seven batters via strikeout as Griffin was allowed to field a groundball at shortstop.

Lynch finished with 14 strikeouts in the contest while offensively, Agan was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and Cooper was 2-for-4 with an RBI.