D.S.S. Takes on Slowpitch City

D.S.S. Takes on Slowpitch City

Caitlin Ottaway

The Dunnville Secondary School's (DSS) Girls Slowpitch team travelled to Dorchester on May 24^th for the annual Slowpitch Tournament held there every year. Dorchester is located about ten minutes outside of London, Ontario. The team had two games scheduled for Thursday. The first game was at 12:30pm and the second one at 3:00pm. “ I told the girls before the games to go out there and have some fun,” said coach Kurt Lorhum. The first game the girls had a tough loss. Dunnville's pitchers struggled and the girls couldn’t score enough runs in time to win. Their second game showed more of Dunnville’s potential as a team. The girls battled hard to put up a score of 23-17. This win meant the girls would play bright and early the next day at 9 am sharp. On Friday morning the girls were ready to play. They started out strong putting up 4 runs in the first inning. The team's worst nightmare came true; Dunnville's pitchers started to struggle again which resulted in the other team running up the score in walks. The girls fought hard to hit in more runs, but it wasn’t enough, and the team came up short. “ Our team had the ability to win all three of our games; our pitchers had a rough go and the other teams were not swinging the bats, all they looked for was walks,” said Meaghan Crossman. The girls had hoped for a better outcome, but all in all a good season was performed by the girls.