Apaches Sweep the Bulldogs on the Road

Phil Hicks

Tyler Morning Telegraph

The Apache Ladies travel to west Texas on Monday to take on Ranger College in a softball doubleheader in Ranger. 

Game times are 1 and 3 p.m.

TJC is 17-7 overall and 3-1 in Region XIV after the Apache Ladies swept Navarro College on Friday in Corsicana.

Tyler Junior College won 7-1 and 12-3 against the Bulldogs after splitting a pair with Trinity Valley (2-4, 10-3) on Wednesday in Athens.

TJC VS. NAVARRO

In the first game vs. Navarro, Daniela Gutierrez and Payton Bray each had two hits and Ileana Hernandez drove in three runs in the 7-1 win.

Chloe Payne also drove in a run with Hernandez adding a single. One of Gutierrez's hits was a double.

Scoring runs were Sydney Farmer (2), Hernandez (2), Ky-Li Alonzo (1), Gutierrez (1) and Bray (1).

Kearston Gooch pitched a complete game, allowing six hits and an unearned run with five strikeouts and two walks.

In the second game, TJC belted out 12 hits with homers from Bray and Trinity Hawkins in the 12-3 victory.

Alonzao had three hits with two each from Bray and Farmer. Piper Morton had a double with singles from Jolie Bazan, Gutierrez and Mallory Kniffen.

Bray had four RBIs, followed by Morton (2), Kniffen (2), Farmer (1), Gutierrez (1), Paige Schulze (1) and Hawkins (1).

Scoring runs were Bazan (2), Alonzo (2), Farmer (2), Bray (1), Gutierrez (1), Morton (1), Schulze (1), Kniffen (1) and Hawkins (1).

Sarah Phillips got the win in the circle (4 innings, 3 hits, no runs, 1 walk, 1 strikeout). She was followed by Toni Gabaldon (1 inning, 3 hits, 3 runs).