ALTON, Ill. — It was a good day to play two for Quincy High School softball.<\/p>\n
The Blue Devils won both ends of Saturday afternoon’s doubleheader against Alton, winning the first game 11-7 and the second game 2-1.<\/p>\n
QHS had a 2-0 lead after two innings of play in the first game, and then erupted for 10 runs in the third to seize control of the game.<\/p>\n
Blue Devils leadoff hitter and third baseman Ivy Winter went 3-for-5 with a triple, four RBIs and two runs.<\/p>\n
Quincy catcher Maggie Neally went 2-for-4 with a solo home run, while shortstop Mia Ellefritz went 1-for-3 with a walk, run, RBI and a stolen base.<\/p>\n
Blue Devils center fielder Avary Hlubek went 2-for-4 with a run, while second baseman Kendyl Byquist went 2-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and two runs.<\/p>\n
QHS starting pitcher Maylee Tipton was the winning pitcher in game one after pitching a complete game with one strikeout, while allowing 11 hits, four walks and three earned runs.<\/p>\n
It was a low scoring game two, with Avary Hlubek coming through with a two-RBI double to score Ellefritz and Neally in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n
Ellefritz went 2-for-3 with a run and a stolen base, while Hlbuek went 1-for-3 with a double and two RBIs.<\/p>\n
Tipton also won the second game after pitching all seven innings with no strikeouts, while allowing five hits, one walk and one earned run.<\/p>\n
Up next for QHS (9-9) is a home game against Payson Seymour at 4:30 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALTON, Ill. — It was a good day to play two for Quincy High School softball. The Blue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2331,3437,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2307,2320,2327,2321,1210,185,2324,2560,2311,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-678790","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-events","13":"tag-baseball-finals","14":"tag-baseball-games","15":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","16":"tag-baseball-teams","17":"tag-batting-order-baseball","18":"tag-double-baseball","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-mlb-playoffs","28":"tag-mlb-postseason","29":"tag-outdoor-sports","30":"tag-pitcher","31":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","32":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","33":"tag-softball","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-sports-events","36":"tag-stolen-base","37":"tag-team-sports","38":"tag-turf-sports","39":"tag-world-series"},"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\/678790","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=678790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}