FORT WAYNE â In their first loss of the season Thursday, Eastsideâs softball team registered just six hits against Prairie Heights.
They collected that many hits in the fifth inning alone Saturday, blistering the North Side Legends 20-6 in a nonconference game that finished before the raindrops fell.
Every Blazer batter had at least one hit as the visitors racked up 17 hits in a game that was called after five innings because of the 10-run rule.
Junior Mataya Bireley collected four hits â a triple and three singles â and drove in five runs for the Blazers (12-1).
Freshman Jayci Kitchen and sophomore Grace Kreischer knocked in four runs each. Kitchen had a triple and a single while scoring three times. Kreischer brought in two on a sacrifice fly in the second and drove in another with a sacrifice fly in the fourth.