Indian River softball uses big 3rd inning to secure victory over Caesar Rodney

DAGSBORO, Del.- Indian River gets a big win over Caesar Rodney 10-5, Thursday afternoon in Dagsboro.

In the bottom of the first inning Indian River would make their statement clear as they would score 3 unanswered runs.

In the top of the second inning CR would get their first run off a wild pitch with Kaitlyn Krass putting CR on the board.

Bottom of the second Indian River would add on to their total with an RBI from Jillian Coulbourn bringing home Sophia Scurci. IR up 4-1 at the end of the second inning.

Bottom of the third inning Indian River turned it up, scoring 5 runs from Scurci, Coulbourn, Autumn Willey, Katelyn Lasher and Addelyn Clark, with RBI’s from Willey, Coulbourn and Se’Tara McGee. IR extends their lead to 9-1.

Top of the fourth inning Caesar Rodney had they best inning with 3 scores from Krass, Alyssa Kennard and Montana Fox, with RBIs from Krass and Za’Niya McMullen.

Bottom of the fourth inning, Lasher hit a sacrifice fly to center, bringing home Zoe Quillen. Caesar Rodney trailing 10-4 going into the fifth inning.

In the top of the seventh inning Elizabeth McCarthy would get an RBI bringing home Audrey Gutierrez.

IR Softball Head Coach, Sara Powell had this to say about how their last game against Sussex Academy fueled their desire to win this game:

“Well, we came off a loss on Tuesday, so we kind of had the mindset that we want to come in and refocus ourselves on what we can do as far as doing the little things. Yesterday at practice, we just made it a focus to come out here and work on our game and kind of tighten up some of the things that we tended to do on Tuesday, and just going out here and getting a win was the priority.”

Indian River would go on to advance to 3-1 on the season next game Tuesday April 8, home against Cape Henlopen at 4:15 pm.