The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk softball scored their first win of the season Friday, beating visiting Mount Pleasant in Kalona in just five innings, 16-4. Mid-Prairie started fast, scoring four times in the first, with Brenna Jehle belting a two-run homer and Brylee Gearhart and Tessa Bombei adding RBI as Dakota Mitchell, Jehle, Sophie Miller and Claire Trimpe all came around to score. Mount Pleasant got even in the second, sending eight to the plate and scoring four times on one hit and two Mid-Prairie errors.

The Golden Hawk answer was swift, batting around in the bottom half with Miller, Trimpe, Gearhart and Izzy Kite all scoring with RBI from Kadence Grout, Bombei and Kyla Karnes. An unearned run scored in the third as Mitchell raced home on an error. In the fourth, it was 11 batters more with Braylee Yoder, Bombei, Anna Flynn, Mitchell, Jehle, Miller, and Trimpe all scoring on RBI hits from Miller, Grout, Gearhart and Karnes. After the contest, Golden Hawk head coach Amy Hartsock-Williams joined the KCII postgame show to talk about what led to the victory.

Coach said, “Tonight we had really good pitch selection. They weren’t chasing. They were waiting for their pitch. They let the ball come in deep and took it to the other side. We were more focused at the plate, more disciplined, on a mission to score those runners. Kadence (Grout), worked the zone. She didn’t give up a lot of freebies. She kept it down, worked the change of speeds to keep them off balance and Sophie (Miller) is just a machine back there, nothing got behind her.”

Mid-Prairie had 12 hits to just three for Mount Pleasant. Eight of the nine in the Golden Hawk order scored a run, seven of the night had a hit and six of the nine an RBI. Grout led the hit parade with three driven in on two hits. Jehle, Gearhart, Bombei and Karnes each knocked in two. Miller, Grout, Gearhart, Bombei and Karnes all had multi-hit nights and Mitchell, Jehle, Miller and Trimpe all scored multiple runs. Grout was the winning pitcher with five innings in the circle, three hits, four runs, none earned, one walk and two strikeouts. The Hawks are now 1-1 on the year and travel to Tipton tonight for a River Valley Conference doubleheader.