YAKIMA — The Adna offense was inevitable in Yakima on Thursday.
With senior star Karlee VonMoos at the helm, the Pirates scored and scored and scored some more in their debut at the 2B state tournament, bouncing back from their first time getting shut out this season with three touchdowns in a 21-11 win over Colfax on Friday.
VonMoos started the big day, smashing a solo home run in the bottom of the first to give Adna an immediate lead. When Colfax mounted a comeback with eight runs in the top of the fifth to take a 9-8 lead, the senior punctuated a rally in reply, going yard for a three-run shot that made it 12-9.
Surrounding her two big flies, VonMoos hit for the cycle, finishing the day 5 for 5 with 14 total bases, seven RBIs, and five more runs scored. She also took over for Ava Simms in the circle after Colfax started hitting the sophomore and earned the win with 1 ⅔ innings of relief, allowing three unearned runs and striking out three.
Adna scored in all six of its trips to the plate. The run in the first was followed by three in the third and another in fourth to bounce out to a 5-0 lead before Colfax managed its first run. Three more scored in the fourth, four in the fifth, and after Colfax came back again to cut the deficit to one at 12-11, the Pirates walked it off with nine in the sixth, ending the game with a Danika Hallom 2-RBI single.
Had VonMoos not had the day she did, Hallom would have been the story, going 4 for 4 with a walk, a double, four RBIs, and three runs at the top of the order.
Margarite Humphrey and Natalie Loose both added two-hit days at the plate.
Adna will hope of the offensive explosion carries over to Saturday, when it gets the rematch everybody in the 2B world has been waiting a week for. The Pirates will be back in action at 10 a.m. against No. 4 Ocosta and the Wildcats’ ace Jessie Gilbert, who shut Adna out in the district title game last Saturday.
