No-hitters all around
LowcoSports.com
It was a good week to be a pitcher on the area high school softball scene.
No-hitters abounded last week in the Lowco, with Beaufort High’s Kylie Rast and Adalyn Johnson each twirling a no-no in abbreviated routs of Philip Simmons while Battery Creek’s Stella Schubert threw a three-inning perfect game against North Charleston and John Paul II’s Tevi Mullen no-hit Whale Branch.
Rast mowed down the Iron Horses on Tuesday, recording all nine outs via strikeout and allowing only one baserunner on an error, and Johnson struck out 11 in a no-hitter of her own in Friday’s rematch, allowing one walk over four innings with another runner reaching on an error.
That duo will try to slow down a red-hot Battery Creek offense in a key region series this week. The Dolphins have scored 10 or more runs in five straight games — all wins — totaling 84 runs over that stretch, including a 15-0 win over North Charleston in which Schubert sat down all nine Cougars and struck out five.
Mullen nearly had two no-nos in a row, no-hitting the Warriors a day after allowing just one hit in a four-inning shutout of Cross Schools. She struck out six over three innings, allowing just one Whale Branch runner to reach on an error.
