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ROSWELL — Clovis High softball coach Brandi Thomas says her team is taking “baby steps.” The next goal is to get over the top and get a win.
The Lady Wildcats fell to 0-8 on Tuesday with 10-2 and 5-3 losses to Roswell Goddard, even though they outhit the Lady Rockets in both games — including a 13-5 margin in Game 2.
“We hit the ball hard, but they caught them,” Thomas said of the Lady Rockets, who improved to 4-0 for the season. “The second game is the best game we’ve played this year. The first game we had no energy, but I think we turned a corner in the second game.”
Walks killed the Lady Cats in the nightcap — a total of eight, plus a couple of hit batsmen. Goddard finished the tilt with just five hits.
The Lady Rockets took a 3-1 lead in the first inning of the opener and kept adding on, also benefitting from seven walks and two hit-by-pitches in that one.
In the opener, junior Jazmine Lefevre and freshman Daisy Dodge had RBI singles for Clovis in the first and fourth innings, respectively. Lefevre and sophomore and Maribel Gallegos each had two of the Lady Cats’ eight hits off Goddard freshman Jordan Rincon.
In the second game, six CHS players had two hits, including Gallegos, who finished the day 4-for-5 and hit run-scoirng singles in the second and sixth. Senior Destinee Sotelo drove in the other tally with a second-inning double.
Clovis returns to action on Friday with a 5 p.m. twin bill at former district rival Carlsbad.