GREENWOOD -- The Siloam Springs softball team dropped a pair of games against 6A competition on Saturday at Greenwood.
The Lady Panthers opened the afternoon with a 16-1 loss in three innings to Greenwood before losing to Lake Hamilton 11-4 later in the day.
"The bottom line is we've just gotten all of our girls in from winter activities and we just need reps," said Siloam Springs head coach Scott Wright. "The more reps we get the better we're going to get.
"It's early. We're still a couple of weeks away from being in mid-season form."
In the first game against Greenwood, Siloam Springs (2-7) opened the game by scoring a run in the top of the first inning.
Crissa Spry and Kenlie Noel each got on base, and the Lady Panthers executed a double steal to score Spry and take a 1-0 lead.
Greenwood answered with nine runs in the bottom of the first inning to take a 9-1 lead, and the Lady Bulldogs scored seven more in the second inning to make it 16-1.
The game ended after the Lady Panthers went scoreless in the top of the third via the sportsmanship rule.
The Lady Panthers then played Lake Hamilton, which defeated Siloam Springs 4-1 in the opening round of the Class 6A State Softball Tournament in Sheridan last year.
The Lady Wolves scored a run in the first inning and two in the second and one in the third to take a 4-0 lead.
Siloam Springs pulled within 4-2 with two runs in the bottom of the fourth, but Lake Hamilton answered with three in the fifth to go up 7-2.
Siloam Springs cut the lead to 7-3 with a run in the sixth, but Lake Hamilton scored four in the seventh for an 11-3 lead. The Lady Panthers scored one run in the seventh to make it 11-4.
"We had a couple of rallies against Lake Hamilton," Wright said. "We loaded the bases a couple of times and left quite a few (base runners) stranded. We just had too many unearned runs. They also had some hits too."
Spry (2-4) was the losing pitcher in both games for Siloam Springs.
The Lady Panthers are scheduled to return to action at Russellville on Tuesday, March 28, for a 5A/6A District 1 game. The Lady Panthers and Lady Cyclones split last season's games with Siloam Springs losing at Russellville and rallying to defeat the Lady Cyclones at La-Z-Boy Park to clinch a state tournament berth.
Sports on 03/22/2017