WEIMAR — Lady Cardinals softball breezed by Luling High School April 26 at Lady Wildcats Field in Weimar by a final score of 15-0. Columbus poured on the hitting from the very beginning and held their pitching intact while cleaning things up on defense as well.
“We’ve always been a really good defensive team,” said Columbus head softball coach Alfred Rosa.
“We have nine really good hitters and they put the ball in play. They’re patient and they hit the ball hard.” Columbus senior pitcher Karlee Mathis kept things intact with her command in the circle and not allowing much of anything. “Really good pitch calling by Coach Rosa,” Mathis said. “We talked a lot about it. Made sure we had the same game plan and watched the film.
Just try to take care of business that way and it paid off.”
Columbus took a 3-0 ad- vantage in their first at bat on a stolen base at home after a pass ball, then made it 4-0 in the next inning with a base hit RBI from Kaylea Foster. In the third inning, the Lady Cardinals drew a couple walks and put on a hard hit to score three more runs and put it at 7-0. Columbus then poured it on in their final at bat of the game, scoring eight runs on tons of walks, a sac fly, and another hit from Foster to ice the game in the bottom of the fourth inning by mercy rule at 15-0.
