LAKEPORT — Brittany Rumfelt tossed a one-hitter and Kaila Sterbank homered for the second time in three games to lead the Clear Lake Cardinals past the Kelseyville Knights 13-0 in a five-inning North Central League I interlock softball game on Friday at Lakeport.
Rumfelt improved to 8-0 by striking out eight and walking none. She lost her bid for a no-hitter when Lauren Giusti singled sharply to right-center field with two outs in the top of the fourth inning.
Clear Lake scored four times in the bottom of the first inning, including a clutch two-out, two-run single by Kacie Hinchcliff.
“We did a good job with our situational hitting again today,” Clear Lake coach Gary Pickle said.
Losing pitcher Casey Bowlin settled down after that and allowed just one over the next three innings, that coming on Jen Carley”s RBI groundout in the fourth that made it 5-0 in the Cardinals” favor.
Clear Lake (10-0) then broke the game open with an eight-run fifth.
“In the first inning nerves got the best of us,” Kelseyville coach Greg Giusti said of his young squad, now 2-7 on the season. “In the fifth she (Bowlin) just got tired and was leaving the ball up a little bit. Before I could get someone up (in relief), they jumped on us and strung together a series of hits.
“They come at you every pitch and wear you down,” Giusti added of the Cardinals.
“I was impressed with Kelseyville,” Pickle said. “You can see they”re improving quite a bit.”
Rumfelt went 3-for-3 with two doubles and a RBI for Clear Lake. Hinchcliff, Haley Sanderson and Sam Espinoza all had two hits and two RBIs.
In other softball action Friday:
St. Vincent 12, Lower Lake 0
At Lower Lake, Kayla Behler singled and doubled for Lower Lake”s only hits against St. Vincent winning pitcher Shawna Hettrich, who struck out eight and walked two.
Unable to start the game because she”s battling the flu, Lower Lake pitcher Katie Munch did appear in relief for the Trojans and held St. Vincent to just one run over the final two innings of the five-inning game.
“We”re just beat up right now and half the team has the flu,” Lower Lake coach Joe Parker said. “If we”re healthy, we give them a better game.”
Baseball
St. Vincent 10, Lower Lake 0
At Lower Lake, calling it his team”s worst outing of the season, the Lower Lake Trojans were shut out by the St. Vincent Mustangs in NCL I interlock varsity baseball action.
“They don”t really wow you in any one area, but they”re solid all the way around and have no weaknesses,” Lower Lake coach Chris Denny said. “They capitalize on your mistakes. Gary Galloway always does a great job coaching his team.”
Jake Sanders went 2-for-4 and Anthony Lucchesi went 2-for-3 for the Trojans (2-3).
