Region 9 softball: Warriors get wild (pitch) win over Cedar, hang on to 1st place

Written by Andy Griffin
April 18, 2015
Snow Canyon's Heather Prestwich winds up with runners on base for Cedar, Cedar vs. Snow Canyon, Softball, St. George, Utah, Apr. 17, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

ST. GEORGE — With Snow Canyon’s Heather Prestwich and Cedar’s Marin Whitney pitching well, it was going to take something unusual to break a 2-2 tie Friday afternoon between two of the region’s top teams. Stealing home, that would qualify.

Mada Mooring (28) for Snow Canyon, Cedar vs. Snow Canyon, Softball, St. George, Utah, Apr. 17, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Warrior Mada Mooring (28), Cedar vs. Snow Canyon, Softball, St. George, Utah, Apr. 17, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

Technically, Mada Mooring scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh on a wild pitch. But the speedy SC lead-off hitter didn’t need much of an opening to sprint home for the game-ending play.

Mooring had fouled off three straight pitches before lacing a 1-2 pitch to left field for a double to lead off the bottom of the seventh. She moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Nikenna Durante and then scored the winning run when a 1-0 pitch to Shelbee Hutchings got away from the Cedar catcher.

Mooring had three of Snow Canyon’s eight hits in the game. Sonya Hardy had two as well. Prestwich held Cedar to five hits and one walk and overcame four errors by her teammates.

Javlyn Weaver had two of the hits for Cedar, while Whitney overcame a rough first inning (three hits, two runs) to silence the Warriors until Mooring’s winning run.

Warrior left fielder Katelyn Flowers nearly runs down a foul ball, Cedar vs. Snow Canyon, Softball, St. George, Utah, Apr. 17, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Warrior left fielder Katelyn Flowers nearly runs down a foul ball, Cedar vs. Snow Canyon, Softball, St. George, Utah, Apr. 17, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

With the win, SC preserves its perch atop Region 9 with an 8-1 record. Canyon View, which beat Dixie 2-0, is second with a 6-2 record and Cedar drops to third with the loss, falling to 5-3.

In the Falcons victory, Taylor Wheelwright allowed just one hit to the Lady Flyers in the complete-game victory. Summer Simkins was almost as impressive, holding Canyon View scoreless until the fifth inning. The Falcons pushed both runs across in that inning with the help of a Kaitlyn DeLange double.

Snow Canyon and Canyon View meet in 10 days (Apr. 28) at CV.

No score was reported for the Pine View-Desert Hills game.

Stats: cedscsb41715

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andy Griffin has been in sports media since 1989 and has covered BYU, Utah State and the Utah Jazz as well as all sports in southern Utah. A journalism graduate of USU, Andy has carried on a dual career as both a sports writer and a sports broadcaster and has been heard around the country. He has also been published in USA Today, Sport magazine, The Sporting News, Fairways magazine, the Los Angeles Times and locally in the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Spectrum. Andy was “The Voice of Region 9 sports,” for many years. He also hosted a daily sports talk show for three years called AG in the a.m. Andy has been married to his college sweetheart Shelly for 28 years and has five children ages 13 to 25.

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