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By Sandy Anderberg

The ladies are moving on after claiming the Bi-District Championship over Sanford-Fritch last week. The 24-5-1 Lady Broncos won the first game 8-3 and took the second game 17-6.

The Cummins twins have been dominant on the mound all season racking up great pitching stats. Kennadie Cummins earned the seven-inning win over the Lady Eagles allowing seven hits and three runs. Cummins struck out 12 batters with no walks. She threw 83 strikes out of 109 pitches and faced 33 batters. SF struggled to find the sweet spot to go deep.

However; the Lady Eagles were able to score first with one run in the first and one in the second before the Lady Broncos were able to find their sweet spot and add five runs in the fifth inning. K. Cummins and Elliot Frausto burned a homerun each in the game. Frausto got hers in the fifth to left field and Cummins knocked one down in the seventh to center field. Both hitters scored two with their big shot.

Overall, the Lady Broncos had 11 hits with seven singles, one double, and one triple in addition to the two homeruns.

Almost all of the Lady Broncos made good hits in the game and contributed to the win.

Game two went in favor of the Lady Broncos to give them the opportunity to continue post-season play. More big hits were made in the second game with Tandie Cummins and Shelby Christopher leading the way with three home runs that scored seven runs collectively. T. Cummins hit a grand slam in the second inning to score half of the Lady Broncos’ runs for the entire inning. Clarendon scored all their 17 runs at the end of the fourth. Sanford-Fritch had another chance to put runs on the board, but the Lady Broncos shut them down after six runs.

Overall, the ladies racked up 10 singles, three doubles, and three homers in the game. As a team they ran the bases well and stole four with Hayden Elam, Coles, Riley Jantz, and Frausto claiming one each.

T. Cummins was on the mound and went the distance with four strike-outs in the game. She threw 58 strikes out of 86 pitches and allowed only one walk in the game.

The Lady Broncos will take on Hale Center May 1 and 2nd at 5:00 p.m. in Floydada for games one and two. Game 3 will be played immediately following game two if needed.

By Sandy Anderberg

Clarendon High School junior runner Madi Benson is at it again this season. She was able to take second place in the 800m run at the regional track meet to make yet another appearance at the state level.

Benson’s time of 2:25.67 was just over two seconds off of the winning time of 2:22.51. She has been stellar in her three seasons in Lady Bronco track.

Benson ran the 1600m in a time of 5:50.94 for fifth place but did not advance. The winning time in that run was 5:35.93.

Freshman Addy Havens has had a very impressive season also. Havens qualified to the regional track meet in two events just like Benson, and although she was close, she did not advance to the state level. Havens rand sixth in the 1600m run with a tine of 5:51.61 right behind Benson.

Havens was very impressive in the 3200m run and missed qualifying for the state meet by just over 14 seconds. The first-place time in the 3200m was 11:57.51.

Kate Shaw also competed at the regional level and finished 14th in the shot put. Shaw recorded a distance of 31’6 ½”.
Benson will run at state May 2.