KEOSAUQUA – The Bravettes played a couple of tough teams Saturday and suffered a pair of mercy rule, five-inning defeats.
Van Buren County (6-1) beat the Bravettes 11-1, and Davis County (8-1) was an 17-7 winner.
The losses dropped Montezuma to 2-9 on the varsity softball season.
Van Buren 11,
Montezuma 1
Van Buren outhit Montezuma 16-3 and scored four runs in the first inning and four more in the third.
Madison Van Zee, Laila Kercheval and Ellen Cook had one hit each for the Bravettes, while Izzy Roorda stole a base.
Abby Pope pitched for Montezuma, working 4.1 innings. She allowed 11 runs, eight of them earned. She walked one and struck out one.
Davis County 17,
Montezuma 7
The bright spot for the Bravettes in this game was the offense, which produced 13 hits and seven runs.
But Davis County hit Montezuma with a 10-run second inning to take control.
Montezuma scored four runs in the third inning, and three in the fifth.
Davis County lined 20 hits in this game and Montezuma made seven errors.
Four players had two hits each for Montezuma.
Katie Reynolds was two-for-three, as was Van Zee.
Kailey Shaffer was two-for-three with a run batted in. Pope was two-for-three.
Laila Kercheval had one hit and drove in two runs.
Ellen Cook had a hit and an RBI.
Kalynn Wanders had a hit and stole Montezuma’s only base.
Kallie Robison and Izzy Roorda had one hit each.
Robison pitched the 4.2-inning distance. Of the 17 runs she allowed, eight were earned. She walked two and did not strike out a batter.
UP NEXT – Montezuma plays at second-ranked Lynnville-Sully on Monday, June 7.