Our Lady Falcons dug a pretty deep hole through two innings to find themselves down 6-0 on some unusually sloppy play and it hadn't even started raining ... yet.  After Issaquah put up 4 in the first with some help by our defense and 2 in the second on a two run home run the skies opened up and our girls dug in for a fight.

Rain started pelting down and the Lady Falcons bats got going in the third with Nicole Shavlik hitting a nice two out, two RBI double using her speed to get the Lady Falcons to within 3 at 6-3.  Over the next few innings balls were being belted all over the field by Jordan Boyd and others but right at Issaquah defenders.  Bats were alive...we just needed the shots to find some green grass instead of opponents mits!

Olivia Riener had settled in after the second and let her defense go to work shutting down Issaquah with crafty pitching and some great defense led by senior Tori Lettus on a line drive catch collision to end a rally, a nice double play by Taylor Rhinehart line drive catch over to Alyssa O'Farrell digging it out of the dirt to end another rally.   Nicole snagged a home-run crashing into the fence and Alena Jones with an over the head runner in deep right field to stop potential other runs from scoring.

Final at bats had Maggie Loyet leading off and being hit in by Alyssa to close the gap to 6-4.   But it wasn't to be as our ladies just didn't have enough time to get the balls where Issaquah wasn't.  They dug deep and rallied but the hole they dug early was too much to overcome.  It will be a good lesson learned heading into the meat of the season and onto KingCo Playoffs.

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