by Chris Naquin
DigitalSports Richmond
The Varina Blue Devils beat the Henrico Warriors 14-9 in Tuesday afternoon’s Kassidy Hahn Memorial Day Tournament consolation game at Colonial Heights.
Both teams were looking for a win after previous losses, especially Varina who lost to Matoaca the day before in the last inning of play.
Henrico went up 2-0 in the first inning, stealing home twice off of wild pitches thrown by Varina’s Kasey Shumaker.
Varina answered back in the second inning scoring six runs.
Varina’s right fielder Katy Brown started the rally by hitting an RBI single to tie the game 1-1.
Catcher Heather Pike would also help the Blue Devils as she hit an RBI double to bring in two more runs putting Varina on top 3-1.
The Blue Devils scored three more runs to take the lead in the third inning off of wild pitches thrown by Henrico’s Jessica Lantz.
Later in the inning, Henrico added another run off of an in-the-park home run hit by center fielder Kayla Page to make the score 6-3 in favor of Varina heading into the third inning.
In the third inning Varina took their biggest lead of the game.
The Blue Devils scored eight runs in the inning, one came from second baseman Megan Allensworth, who hit an RBI single, and another from Brown, who hit an RBI double to take a 14-3 lead over the Warriors.
“We did well hitting and getting ahead,” Shoemaker said. “We always do really well if we just jump on it.”
Henrico came back strong in the fourth and fifth inning scoring a total of six runs.
One was another in-the-park home run hit by shortstop Kristina Caldwell as the Warriors came back to within four heading into the final two innings of play.
Varina was able to shut out Henrico in the sixth and seventh inning not allowing a come-from-behind win due to great pitching by Shumaker as Varina won the game 14-9.
Varina 068 000 0 – 14 15 4
Henrico 210 330 0 – 9 13 3
Shumaker, Edwards (4) Shumaker (5) and Pike; Lantz, Davis (3) and Burges
Records: Varina (2-5); Henrico (1-5)
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