Higbee’s Big Response Seventh Gives Lady Tigers Win at Glasgow

Glasgow tied the game with a four-run sixth but Higbee responded with six runs in the top of the seventh in an 11-7 victory Monday.

Kiersten Rockett led off the game with a hard-hit double and Raegan Derboven reached on an error. Lauren Spilman put the visitors up two batters later.

Higbee made another Glasgow miscue hurt in the third when Marilynn Ritter followed a two-out error with a two-run single. Glasgow got on the board with an Aynslie Locke RBI double in the bottom half. Neither team scored again until the bottom of the sixth. Riley Olendorff hit an RBI double. Back-to-back singles by Karah Graves and Halle Fuemmeler set up Locke to come through again.

The Lady Tigers regained the lead in the seventh on another costly Glasgow mistake.

Higbee took further advantage with four more runs in the frame. Glasgow got RBI singles by Graves and Fuemmeler in the bottom of the seventh. Locke started in the circle and had 12 strikeouts. Rockett took the complete game victory for Higbee and was named the Freeman Financial and Insurance Outstanding Player of the Game. Ritter had three hits.

Higbee moves to 11-4; Glasgow falls to 10-5.

Higbee coach Ryan Vogelgesang Postgame Interview:

Glasgow coach Allison Foster Postgame Interview: