The Ethel fast-pitch softball team picked up a pair of district wins in convincing fashion last week.
The Lady Tigers rolled to an easy 15-1 win at French Camp Academy on Tuesday and followed it up with a 9-0 blanking of Noxapater at home Thursday.
The two victories lifted the Lady Tigers to 11-6 on the season. They were scheduled to go to Independence Tuesday this week and will visit Ray Brooks Thursday for a doubleheader.
Next week, Ethel is scheduled to host Sebastopol on Tuesday (April 17) before the postseason begins the following weekend.
Last Tuesday at French Camp, Ethel scored five times in the top of the first inning and never looked back in an easy win.
Jessica Mitchell had three hits including a triple, three RBIs, and three runs scored and Kambrie Hodges doubled twice, singled, drove in five runs and scored to lead the offensive attack.
Haley Wiegel also doubled twice, scored three times and drove in four runs for the Lady Tigers; Melanie Odom and Emily Mitchell both singled, scored and drove in one; Brooklyn Pitt scored three times and drove in a run; Sidney Rone scored twice; Breanna Blaine scored once.
Hodges was the winning pitcher, striking out five in two innings before Jessica Mitchell finished.
On Thursday, the Lady Tigers scored three times in the bottom of the third to break open a tight game, then got three more runs in the fifth in beating Noxapater.
Ethel banged out 14 hits in the contest, seven of them for extra bases.
Pitt had two doubles and four RBIs while Rone homered, scored twice and drove in a pair of runs.
Blaine singled three times, scored and also drove in a run; Odom singled, doubled, scored twice and drove in a run; Emily Mitchell and Jessica Mitchell both singled, doubled and scored twice apiece; Wiegel had a double; Shelby Schuster singled.
Hodges was again the winning pitcher, limiting the Tigers to just two hits while striking out six.
