Sports Today: Lady Tigers use big 7th to put away win

After keeping a slim 2-1 lead through the first six innings, the Douglas softball team broke out with three runs in the seventh to take a 5-1 victory over Wooster in Reno Thursday afternoon.

With the win, the Tigers improved to 11-7 overall and 4-3 in league play.

Douglas got on the board in the top of the first when Tisha Luken doubled to bring Donna Judd home.

Wooster tied things up in the bottom of the second on a run-scoring single, but Douglas got back out when Stephanie Harper singled to score Katrina Morgan.

Nicole LaPorte singled to lead off the seventh, Emily Weaver followed with a single and Judd singled to score LaPorte.

Luken singled to bring Weaver around and Judd scored on a sac fly from Morgan.

Harper struck out seven and walked three in to improve to 10-5 in the circle this season.

After hanging a nine-spot on the Wooster Colts in the 30-minute top half of the first inning Thursday afternoon, one might have thought it was going to be easy sailing for the Douglas High baseball team.

But this being Northern Nevada high school baseball, the Colts had plenty of time to chip away at the lead.

Wooster made things interesting before the Tigers were able to close out a 14-9 win in Reno to improve to 9-1 in Sierra League play this season.

Jordan Hadlock (two triples, two RBIs and 3-for-5 at the plate), Nate Whalin (3-for-3, two doubles, one triple and an RBI) and Willie Morgan (2-for-4, three RBIs) led the Tigers at the plate, and Tyler May helped out his own effort on the mound with two RBIs to take the win.

Douglas jumped out to the early lead after scoring eight runs with two outs in the first. Wooster was able to answer with four runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning.

The Tigers pushed their lead with a run in the top of the third and three in the top of the fifth.

Wooster brought three more across in the bottom half on May to close within13-7, ending his afternoon with three strikeouts and four walks.

Pat Lahlum came on and struck out two to get out of the inning, but the Colts were able to tack on two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to close within four.

Wyatt Graham pinch hit with two outs and one on in the top of the seventh and knocked a run-scoring double to right, giving Douglas an insurance run before Hadlock came on to record three strikeouts in the bottom half of the inning to close out the game.

Cory Eilers finished with two RBIs for Douglas while Saladis and Tim Rudnick each had one.

Saladis stole two bases in the game and Hadlock stole one.

The two teams meet up for a doubleheader at Douglas High Saturday at 10 a.m.

Douglas topped Wooster 12-0 with Morgan Pope going five innings while allowing one hit and striking out nine.

Ali Murray led the team with a 4-for-4 performance at the plate with three RBIs.

Megan Mitchitarian, Rebecca Trute, Tara Paiement, Bryanna Schinzing, Stephanie Lee and Kendra Blum each had a hit.