{"id":668781,"date":"2026-04-07T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:23:17","slug":"h-s-softball-scott-county-shuffles-deck-aces-simon-kenton-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668781\/","title":{"rendered":"H.S. softball: Scott County shuffles deck, aces Simon Kenton | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott County started Thursday\u2019s home softball game against Simon Kenton with a completely different look than the norm of the first three weeks.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t easy to discern the reasoning from coach Mike Wagoner\u2019s wry smile and poker face, either. Perhaps it was a selective serving of humble pie for the Cardinals after an extra-inning road win in the 42nd District only 48 hours earlier.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, it wasn\u2019t a matter of looking past the Pioneers, who gave the Cards all they could handle for a few innings before SC polished off a 10-4 triumph.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got a good squad. We knew they were better than what their record was showing,\u201d Wagoner said. \u201cI talked to the girls before the game. \u2018You can\u2019t look at their record. Look past this team here, and you\u2019ll be sorry for it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

And maybe, just maybe, he detected that his team wasn\u2019t getting the message.<\/p>\n

The upper third of Scott County\u2019s customary batting order started the game in the dugout, while several other players appeared out of their typical position in the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried some different things at the beginning,\u201d Wagoner said with a shrug. \u201cJust wanted to get some girls some experience and see what we could do before we went down to Pigeon Forge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making only her second appearance in the varsity circle, and first since 2023, junior Gracie \u2018Boss\u2019 Strong allowed two hits and two runs in four innings.<\/p>\n

Strong offset eight walks with four strikeouts.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoss did a great job on the mound. She wasn\u2019t getting a lot of calls she wanted. That got her frustrated, and they got some hits after that,\u201d Wagoner said. \u201cShe hadn\u2019t pitched at all yet. That was the first time out, so I was proud of her. She did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming off an eight-inning shutout with 11 strikeouts and no walks at Bryan Station, Makenzie Leidecker started at shortstop before slamming the door with five strikeouts over the final three frames.<\/p>\n

Leidecker also went 2-for-4 with a double, a walk and two runs scored out of the leadoff spot after batting third, fourth or fifth through the Cards\u2019 first five games.<\/p>\n

\u201cMak did a great job coming in and finishing,\u201d Wagoner said. \u201cShe\u2019s done it starting out, coming in, leading off. She didn\u2019t blink an eye leading off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryan Station was Leidecker\u2019s only venture past three innings for Scott County.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals also used Skylar Mathies, Addison Langley and Brylee Roberts to twirl a total of 14 innings in March.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe haven\u2019t gotten Liv (Roland) in the varsity (rotation) yet, either, so we have options,\u201d Wagoner said.<\/p>\n

Leidecker led a flock of six Cardinals with two hits apiece.<\/p>\n

Strong (2-for-3, three RBI, walk) and Mathies (2-for-2, two RBI, walk) headlined the heart of the order. Mathies, a freshman, now leads the team with a sweltering .625 average.<\/p>\n

Addison Walters, who entered the game hitless in two varsity at-bats, also was 2-for-3 with an RBI.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did very well,\u201d Wagoner said. \u201cAddy Walters had a heck of a night at the plate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy Townsend and Aubrey Wigginton each went 2-for-3 with three runs scored.<\/p>\n

Wigginton raised her average to .550. She additionally completed a double play at third base after Leidecker handled a line drive at shortstop.<\/p>\n

Seven of the Cardinals\u2019 14 hits were doubles: Two by Strong, and one each from Townsend, Leidecker, Walters, Mathies and Hadley Swint (two RBI).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good game for us, hard-fought,\u201d Wagoner said. \u201cThe wind was a little rough on some of those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott County jumped out to leads of 2-0 in the first inning and 6-0 after three. The Cards put a number in every box except the second.<\/p>\n

Jayden Jones and Taylor Jones each had two hits and knocked in a run for Simon Kenton (2-5). Pioneer pitchers Scarlett Cochran and Lauren McIntosh combined for five strikeouts.<\/p>\n

SC is off until Thursday of spring break week before heading south for some unfamiliar competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix games in three days against teams from Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois,\u201d Wagoner said. \u201cIt will be fun. It will be a good test for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott County started Thursday\u2019s home softball game against Simon Kenton with a completely different look than the norm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2314,2313,2325,2331,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2307,2327,2321,185,2311,2312],"class_list":{"0":"post-668781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-finals","13":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","14":"tag-baseball-teams","15":"tag-batting-order-baseball","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-mlb-playoffs","25":"tag-mlb-postseason","26":"tag-outdoor-sports","27":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","28":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-team-sports","31":"tag-turf-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}