Allen County-Scottsville powers past BG

Published 10:01 am Wednesday, April 16, 2025

By Micheal Compton

The bats continue to produce for the Allen County-Scottsville softball team, which rolled to a 12-0, six-inning victory at Bowling Green on Tuesday.

Allen County-Scottsville (14-2) pounded out 16 hits — including a pair of homers — to make it five straight wins. In all five victories the Lady Patriots have scored at least 12 runs, with ACS hitting double digits in scoring 10 times this season.

“So far offensively we have done our job in most of our contests,” ACS coach Brad Bonds said. “We feel very comfortable with a lot of kids in a lot of different situations, putting runs on the board. When you’ve got a couple of teammates that maybe aren’t having a good day or a good week, we always have others that can step in and provide. We have a lot of opportunities for the kids to get the job done offensively.”

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Allen County-Scottsville wasted little time getting it going with an RBI double from Jacie Rice and an RBI single by Kensley Byrn to make it 2-0 in the first inning.

Rice drew a bases-loaded walk to add a run in the second and Allen County-Scottsville added four runs in the third to chase BG starter Hadley Morrison — the final blow a three-run homer from Shiloh Knievel.

“I walked up there with the mindset to drive one runner in,” Knievel said. “When I made contact I knew it was something that was going to get both of them in and then I saw it go over (the fence) and I was ecstatic.”

Rice struck again with an RBI double in the fifth. Allen County-Scottsville capped the scoring with a four-run sixth — highlighted by a three-run homer from Brooklyn Oliver.

Rice and Ally Anderson finished with three hits each to pace the offense. Oliver, Addison Law and Katie Scott added two hits each.

Oliver earned the win in the circle with 5⅓ scoreless innings, allowing four hits with nine strikeouts.

“Brooklyn has been really solid for us,” Bonds said. “(Addison Ausbrooks) has thrown well too. We are just trying to give them the innings they need, the experience they need. We don’t want them to be working too deep in pitch counts, but giving them the opportunity to be successful and work their pitches. I thought Brooklyn did an extremely good job tonight with keeping their hitters off balance.”

Natalie Klein had two hits to lead the way for Bowling Green (8-6).

“We’re still leaving runners and we are still not having quality at-bats always,” BG coach Penny Reece said. “I look over there and that’s an experienced team. They are as hard-nosed as you can get. Our kids have got to get a lot tougher. We just talked about that in here — kids like that are putting in the extra work. They are playing travel ball and doing all that. That still has not caught on here yet, but it’s going to have to. If you want to compete in the Fourth Region, you’ve got to do extra.”

Allen County-Scottsville will play at District 15 rival Barren County at 5:30 p.m. Bowling Green will play at South Warren in a District 14 clash at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday.

ACSHS 214 014 — 12 16 0

BGHS 000 000 — 0 5 4

WP: Oliver LP: Morrison

I am a sports reporter and movie critic for the Bowling Green Daily News.

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