Centralia’s softball game Wednesday went 10 innings, but Kaelyn Walters was able to go the distance in Moberly.

Neither her nor Moberly’s Taylor Martin were taken out as each pitcher threw north of 150 pitches. Centralia scored the winning run in the tenth inning after Walters, who filled in as a pinch runner for Meredith Wright by stealing two bases, scored on an error.

Walters allowed nine hits, six walks and two earned runs while striking out four while Martin allowed 15 hits, three walks and five earned runs with 11 strikeouts. 

The 15 hits are the Lady Panthers’ first double-digit total since their 15-0 win against Harrisonville on Aug. 27. Autumn Hawkins and Jozelynn Bostick each went 4-for-5, with Hawkins scoring three runs and Bostick hitting a double. Harper Sontheimer drove in three runs on one hit.

The first two Centralia runs happened on a sacrifice fly and groundout from Sontheimer before a two-RBI double by Kennedy Messer gave Moberly a 3-2 lead in the fifth inning. The Lady Panthers tied the game in the sixth after pinch runner Kaylie Ensor advanced to third base to be driven home by Ellie Page.

Walters walked the bases loaded in the seventh inning before a called strike three sent the game to extra innings, which saw the first run in the ninth inning after a Sontheimer single. The lead was erased on an error in the bottom half of the ninth and regained for good after the catcher committed an error on Madi Johnson’s four-pitch walk.

Centralia loses third straight after Highland adds on in 9-4 loss

The deficit just kept getting bigger for Centralia on Tuesday night.

The Lady Panthers scored three runs in the third inning to trail Clarence Cannon Conference foe Highland 5-3 but allowed a run in each of the final four innings to lose 9-4 in Ewing. Highland tallied 13 hits and hit four home runs.

Jozelynn Bostick had two RBI and a double, Cora King and Makenzi Adkisson each added a double, and Meredith Wright went 2-for-3. Kaelyn Walters pitched all seven innings for Centralia, giving up two unearned runs by way of two errors.

Haleigh Winter supplied the first bit of power for Highland in the first inning, hitting a three-run homer out to center field for a 4-0 lead. Abigail Lay increased the lead by one in the second inning with another center field shot.

Centralia started fighting back with two outs in the third inning when Bostick doubled home Autumn Hawkins and Tilly Fox and then crossed the plate on an error to make it 5-3.

Winter hit her second home run of the game — this one to right field — in the fifth inning for a 7-3 game and then Mikayla Dreyer’s left field homer in the sixth inning made it 8-3.

Centralia (4-6, 1-1 CCC) plays in a triangular that starts at 10 a.m. today at Highland against the Lady Cougars and Troy-Buchanan.

Girls golf

Pace, Stephens champions at Paris Invitational

Centralia’s Bailey Pace won her third event in as many tries Wednesday in Paris but had some company this time.

She and teammate Tess Stephens each shot an 81 to lead Centralia to a second-place team finish in the Paris Invitational. The Lady Panthers were beat out for first by New Bloomfield after a scorecard playoff.