One swing of Sarah Moore’s bat was all that separated Baylor from Central in their high school softball game Tuesday.
Moore’s home run with two out in the bottom of the third inning lifted the Lady Red Raiders to a 2-0 home win in their season debut.
For the second consecutive year the state-tournament teams from a year ago — Baylor winning Divsion II-AA — played an early-season, low-scoring game won by the Lady Raiders.
“It was an old-fashioned softball game,” Baylor coach Kelli Smith said. “You believed the winner was going to be the team that executed, the team that got the big hit. We were fortunate.”
Neither team made an error. There were no passed balls and no wild pitches. Central’s Shelby Willard allowed the only walk, which freshman Maya Mathis worked with a full count and one out in the third inning to become Baylor’s first baserunner.