Manhattan High softball split a marathon Centennial League doubleheader Tuesday at Washburn Rural, winning the opener 3-2 in 12 innings before falling 12-7 in the nightcap.<\/p>\n
The Indians moved to 12-12 on the season after battling through nearly 20 combined innings against the Lady Blues.<\/p>\n
In the opener, Manhattan leaned on sophomore pitcher Josi Alesana and a late clutch swing from Josey Ball to grind out a 12-inning victory.<\/p>\n
After both teams traded runs early, the game remained tied at 2-2 until the top of the 12th inning when Josey Ball launched a solo home run to center field, giving the Indians the lead for good.<\/p>\n
Manhattan struck first in the opening inning on a two-RBI single from Solveig Chase before Washburn Rural answered with runs in the fourth and fifth innings.<\/p>\n
Alesana tossed all 12 innings in the circle, allowing two runs on 10 hits while striking out five with seven walks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Indians collected nine hits offensively, led by Gracyn Neitzel\u2019s 3-for-6 performance. Chase added two hits and two RBI, while Kat Ball also finished with two hits.<\/p>\n
The momentum carried early into Game 2 as Manhattan jumped out to a 5-0 lead through two innings.<\/p>\n
Alesana opened the scoring with an RBI double in the first before the Indians exploded in the second behind Josey Ball\u2019s RBI single and a three-run home run from Neitzel.<\/p>\n
But Washburn Rural answered immediately with a six-run bottom of the second inning, highlighted by a grand slam from Zoie Duran that flipped the game.<\/p>\n
Manhattan briefly tied things again at 6-6 in the third on an RBI single by Chase, but the Lady Blues responded with three runs in the bottom half and never gave the lead back.<\/p>\n
Neitzel finished the nightcap 2-for-4 with four RBI, while Alesana and Tierra Young each added two hits. The Indians totaled nine hits in the loss.<\/p>\n
Washburn Rural closed out the game with three more runs in the sixth inning to secure the split.<\/p>\n
Manhattan wraps up the regular season on Thursday, hosting Hays on senior night at CiCo Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High softball split a marathon Centennial League doubleheader Tuesday at Washburn Rural, winning the opener 3-2 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9737,993,56918,56928,995,56916,65003,996,994,998,56921,997,56922,75,84,83,9,24,63,9225,8916,56917,319,992,4027,9739],"class_list":["post-230002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-ball-and-bat-games","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-competitions","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-baseball-teams","tag-inning","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-seasons-in-baseball","tag-sports","tag-sports-events","tag-team-sports","tag-turf-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}