Vikings top Junction City, even record at 3-3
Junior pitcher Heidi Jones evened her record at 3-3 and was 2-for-3 at the plate with two runs scored Saturday to fire the Siuslaw Vikings to a 4-3 victory over visiting Junction City in a nonleague girls softball game.
Battery mate Nikki Launius, the Vikings' junior catcher, was 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI, junior Chehalis Stinger had an RBI double and later scored and junior Katherine Dodson had an RBI single.
Jones struck out 6, walked 2 and scattered 7 hits while allowing no earned runs, according to the Siuslaw official scorer.
The Vikings, 3-3, close out their preleague schedule with a game Tuesday at Tillamook.
Siuslaw opens Far West League play Friday with a doubleheader at Marshfield. First pitch is 3 p.m.
Junction City, 4-4, opens Sky-Em League play Monday with a home game against Sutherlin.
Siuslaw beat visiting Sutherlin, 15-8, on Thursday.
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Saturday, April 2, at Siuslaw High School softball field
JUNCTION CITY 001 011 0 — 3 7 1
SIUSLAW 021 010 X — 4 7 5
Winning pitcher — Heidi Jones (3-3). Losing pitcher — Mariah Ohman.
Saturday's lineup
15—1B Claire Waggoner, junior
11—P Heidi Jones, junior
17—3B Taylor Dotson, senior
7—SS Anna Petras, senior
9—Ca Nikki Launius, junior
4—CF Hannah Bartlett, senior
6—2B Jenicah Ecker, junior
27—DH Chehalis Stinger, junior (21—RF Aueriel Hager-Tolle, junior)
12—LF Katherine Dodson, junior
Substitutes
2—Anna Stonelake, senior
3—Nicole Gordon, junior
14—Sara Keel, junior
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