LAKEPORT >> Rachel Wingler limited Kelseyville to four hits and worked out of a couple of minor jams while pitching the Clear Lake Cardinals to a 8-0 North Central League I softball win over the visiting Knights on Tuesday afternoon.
Wingler struck out 11 and walked just one as the Cardinals improved to 2-0 in the league standings and 7-3 overall. Kelseyville did put runners into scoring position in a handful of innings but Wingler was up to the task each time. In the top of the second, she struck out a Knights batter to strand runners at second and third.
“Rachel pitched well and our defense played well today,” Clear Lake coach Doug Wingler said.
Clear Lake scored its first two runs in the bottom of the second. The Cardinals went on to add two in the fourth, three in the fifth and one in the sixth against losing pitcher Morgan Profitt, who allowed eight hits, struck out two and walked six.
“They (Knights) played good defense,” Wingler said. “We had a couple of opportunities to break the game open but their outfielders made some great catches.”
“We did make some nice plays in the outfield,” Kelseyville coach Jeff Bour added. “But we’ve got to hit the ball if we’re going to compete with these teams.”
Wingler also led the Cardinals at the plate, going 3-for-4 with a double and a RBI. Emily Psalmonds also doubled.
Bailey Couey, Bib Hamner, Tymeka Green and Kailani Brown (double) had the Knights’ hits.
Kelseyville is 0-2 in league and 3-2 overall.
In other softball action Tuesday:
Lower Lake 6, M’town 1
At Lower Lake, Kristen Celli continues to wear out opposing pitchers as the Trojans’ first baseman went 4-for-4 with a double and three RBIs in a league win over the Middletown Mustangs.
“She’s been on fire,” Lower Lake coach Chris Emberson said of his senior cleanup hitter.
The Trojans scored four of their six runs with clutch two-out hits, including a two-run triple off the bat of Abebreanna Gonzales in the bottom of the third that gave Lower Lake a 4-0 lead at the time. Winning pitcher Ashlynn Mock went 2-for-3 with a two-out RBI double to help her own cause. She scattered five hits while striking out three and walking four.
“Mock fielded her position well … made some great plays,” Emberson said. “And now her bat is starting to come around.”
Jolean Scarborough and Destiny Apodaca added two hits apiece as Lower Lake improved to 2-0 in league and 8-3 overall.
Middletown threatened in the second and third innings against Mock only to come away empty.
“We couldn’t get that one hit we needed,” Middletown coach Barry Glosser said.
Middletown’s only run came in the top of the fifth and was the result of a Lower Lake error.
Losing pitcher Olivia Glosser struck out two and walked two. She also doubled for one of the Mustangs’ five hits.
Middletown is 0-2 in league and 5-4 overall.
Tennis
St. Helena 5, Clear Lake 0
At Lakeport, defending Coastal Mountain Conference tennis champion St. Helena blanked host Clear Lake, winning all five matches in the minimum two sets.
In singles action, Natalie Stanton beat Ethan Jones 6-2, 6-1; Rory Winters defeated Liam Stahl 6-0, 6-1; and Sophia Sakopoulos knocked off Scotty Mather 6-0, 6-1.
In doubles play, Kevin Maher and Antoine Parr beat Sereno Dominguez and Bobby Lasher 6-2, 6-1, and Easton Ellis and Kylie McCaffrey defeated Lexi Burke and Subhagya Joshi 6-0, 6-1.
Cloverdale 4, Kelseyville 1
At Cloverdale, the Keleyville Knights threw a scare Cloverdale’s way, losing a pair of hard-fought matches in first and third singles.
“I thought for sure we were going to do it,” Kelseyville coach Laurie Vargas said. “We had a couple of real tests in first and third singles. They were great matches.”
Cloverdale won both, but it was anything but routine. Luke Pope defeated Kelseyville sophomore Josh Bridges 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) in first singles while Paige Wasniak defeated Kelseyville’s Emma Farrell 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 in third singles.
Kelseyville’s lone win came in second doubles where Kristen Amendola and Summer Brown beat Mikayla Crosby and Javier Fernandez 6-2, 6-0.
In other matches, both won the by Eagles, Everett Conway beat Milly Cacho 6-1, 6-2 in second singles while Jordan Persons and Derick Rilea defeated Fernando Garcia and Alex Sanchez 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
In exhibition doubles, Kelseyville’s Laurel Weller and Garrett Grossner were 6-2, 6-3 winners over Emily Kumer and Kaylie Persons.
Kelseyville is home against Middletown on Thursday.
JV baseball
K’ville 10, Clear Lake 9 (8 inn.)
At Kelseyville, the Kelseyville Knights scored on a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat the Clear Lake Cardinals in NCL I junior varsity baseball action.
It was a tough loss for a Clear Lake team that led 7-0 after three innings. The Cardinals fell behind 9-7 before Jason Garrison singled home two runs in the top of the seventh to tie it at 9.
Losing pitcher Kyle Ashworth went 3-for-5 with a RBI and Chris White went 2-for-5 for the Cardinals (0-2, 1-3.).
Kelseyville statistics were not reported.
