The AHSTW Lady Vikes softball team had a 2-0 victory over the CAM Cougars Monday night in the form of a pitching a duel. Starting Lady Vikes pitcher Etta Partlow was unrelenting retiring the first 3 CAM batters in the top of the 1st. The Cougar’s Ailey Wahlert had a similar response striking out 2 batters and giving up no hits in the bottom of the 1st. This form of pitching tug of war keeping the game at 0-0 finally broke at the bottom of the 5th inning. Bella Lamp started the 5th with a double towards left field. She then successfully stole third and came home off of a sac fly from Graycen Partlow to put AHSTW up 1-0. CAM was ready to respond in the top of the 6th as they had runners on third and second with two outs. But the inning ended with a line fly ball out in right field. Then in the bottom of the 6th the Lady Vikes added on to their lead with a run scoring in from an infield error. AHSTW secured the lead at 2-0 and put away the Cougars in the top of the 7th to hold on for the win.

Emma Follman for the Cougars stuck out with her 2-3 performance at the plate. Etta Partlow though had another solid night pitching 7 innings, with 6 strikeouts, 5 hits, no runs, and no walks. AHSTW Head Coach Katie Pace commended the way her pitcher battled throughout the night.

Games between CAM and the Lady Vikes can be a little more sentimental than other matchups with the history between these two programs.

The win pushes AHSTW to 15-8 on the year with their next game at Harlan on Wednesday night. Coach Pace is looking to see energy from tonight’s game carry into Wednesday’s.

The Cougars drop to 11-9 with the loss and travel to Nodaway Valley on Tuesday.