The Gregory-Portland Ladycats erupted for 19 hits and took advantage of eight Ray errors to roll past the Corpus Christi Ray Lady Texans 18-6 in a District 29-5A softball game Monday in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n
Gregory-Portland (18-6, 3-3 District 29-5A) broke the game open with a five-run fourth inning and continued to add on, scoring in five different innings while pulling away from the Lady Texans.<\/p>\n
After Ray grabbed an early 1-0 lead in the first inning, the Ladycats responded with three runs in the second and never trailed again. Gregory-Portland added five runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and six more in the sixth before closing the scoring with three runs in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Emily LaFavers led the offensive outburst for Gregory-Portland, going 4-for-5 with two doubles and seven RBIs. Emily Cameron also had a big night at the plate, finishing 3-for-5 with four runs scored and three RBIs.<\/p>\n
Leanna Molina added three hits and two runs scored, while Carleigh Williams went 3-for-4. Lauren Bennett and Cadence Sandoval each collected two hits, with Bennett driving in two runs. Alyssa Padron added two hits and scored twice.<\/p>\n
Courtesy runner Kylie Espinoza scored four runs for the Ladycats and stole two bases.<\/p>\n
Gregory-Portland finished with 19 hits and left 10 runners on base.<\/p>\n
LaFavers earned the win in the circle for Gregory-Portland. She pitched a complete game, allowing nine hits and six runs (five earned) while striking out 12 and walking eight.<\/p>\n
G-P returns to 29-5A action on Wednesday when \u00a0it travel to Alice for a noon contest against the Lady Coyotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gregory-Portland Ladycats erupted for 19 hits and took advantage of eight Ray errors to roll past the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13455,12804,78012,78017,155,35393,157,156,78014,78016,78013,13395,78010,78015,78011,11730,78018,26793],"class_list":["post-197346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-5a","tag-alice","tag-alyssa-padron","tag-carleigh-williams","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-day","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-courtesy-runner","tag-emily-cameron","tag-emily-lafavers","tag-gregory-portland","tag-kylie-espinoza","tag-lauren-bennett","tag-leanna-molina","tag-portland","tag-ray-the-gregory","tag-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}