Lady Stangs’ offense is stagnant in loss
MARBLE FALLS — The Cedar Park Vista Ridge softball team was at Scearce Field April 3 to escape with a 3-1 win, splitting the season series with Marble Falls.
In the first round, the Lady Mustangs (6-2) defeated the Lady Rangers (5-3) 6-2 when Marble Falls scored several runs off multiple hits.
But that wasn’t the case April 3. Instead, Marble Falls scored one unearned run off three hits, while the Lady Rangers scratched out three runs off 11 hits.
Even worse, the Lady Mustangs stranded the lead-off runner in the sixth and seventh innings at third base.
“It is frustrating,” Marble Falls head coach Tino Salazar said. “It’s more frustrating that we weren’t getting hits with two outs. I didn’t feel like we had energy from inning 1 to inning 4-and-a-half. We need that intensity from the first pitch to the last pitch.”
Meanwhile, Vista Ridge scored a run in the second and two in the fifth. The runs in the fifth came after two outs.
Sophomore Amanda Thomas hit an RBI double for the Lady Mustangs’ only run.
The Lady Mustangs were flat to start a game for the second straight contest, beating Leander Vandegrift 5-4 March 30.
“When you win a game at the end, you start expecting it every time,” the coach said.
Marble Falls has a short turnaround. Because of Good Friday, the Lady Mustangs will travel to face Leander Rouse, 1501 CR 271 in Leander, 7 p.m. April 5.
“We’ve put ourselves in a tough spot,” Salazar said. “No one has an advantage. Getting the girls emotionally ready is a concern.”