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Cassville up 3-0 after one inning, led by a Kalee Lowe RBI double, and retired the side in top of the second.
Blankenship reaches first on an error, Sturgell singles to left field to put 2 on. Bowling flies out center for second out. Double scores pinch runner for Blankenship, ground out ends the inning. Lady Wildcats lead 4-0 after two.
Stoufer Ks her first two batters, third flies out at center.
Two ground outs and Sparkman gets a hit and steals second, but final ground out ends the inning. Cassville leads 4-0 after three.
Stoufer walks the first Doniphan batter, strikes out the second. Third batter walked to put two on. Grounder to short stop and confusion on first base allows Cassville to turn a double play and end the top of the fourth up 4-0.
Blankenship grounds out to short, Sturgell flies out to right, Bowling grounds out to short. End of the fourth, Lady Wildcats lead 4-0.
Doniphan batter singles up center field. Ball on infield to third is mishandled at second to let runners reach. Two on with no outs for Donnettes. Next batter walked on full count to load bases. Stoufer gets a K, bases still loaded. Low pitch passes and allows one run, runners move. Pop out to Sparkman makes two. Choppy hit falls in play short, runner beats the fielder to home to make it 4-2. Next runner is hit by pitch to load bases with two outs. Another full count walk makes it 4-3. Low ball passes again and Doniphan ties it at 4-4. Stoufer gets a third strike to end the fifth tied at 4s.
Pop out and K brings Stoufer to the plate, and she JACKS a solo homer. Cassville leads 5-4. Sparkman grounds out to close the fifth inning.
Doniphan gets a runner on, she steals second. Stoufer gets a K. Runner gets to third on passed ball, shot to the center fence scores RBI double to tie it again at 5-5. Next batter singles, run tellers on first and third with one out. Walk loads the bases. Single scores one to give Donettes their first lead on the game, 6-5. Hayward catches an infield fly for two outs. Stoufer gets the K to end top of sixth with Cassville trailing 6-5.
Ramaeker grounds out. Tomi Blankenship is walked to bring Joei Blankenship up. She doubles to right to put runners on second and third with one out. Doniphan changing pitchers. Sturgell grounds to infield, runner on third caught in the rundown. Runners now on first and second with Romeo outs, passed ball moves them to second and third. Grounder to first ends sixth inning at 6-5 Doniphan.
First Donette singles to center. Ramaeker catches a bunt popped up for first out. Stoufer Ks one, pop fly left field ends top seventh still 6-5. Cassville stepping to final set of outs.
Hayward grounds out to second. Lowe battles to a full count and is walked. Stoufer does the same. Runners on first and second with one out. Another walk loads the bases. Doniphan changes pitchers again. Ramaeker loads the count, fouls then strikes out. Tomi Blankenship fights to full count, takes the walk on a pitch just low to tie it 6-6. Johnson knocks in the final run with an RBI to right field. Cassville wins 7-6!