by Les Knutson
Sports Reporter
A four-hit, four-run second inning, highlighted by a booming two-run triple off the bat of senior third baseman Jessica VanWesten, sparked the Heron Lake-Okabena / Fulda Coyotes to a 7-3 victory over Madelia at Jackson Friday (April 27) in the first high school girls’ fast-pitch softball game of the new season.
Not only it was the first game of the year — after significant snow fell throughout the area five times between March 23 and April 18 — it was the first game ever for the recently-created pairing arrangement between HL-O and Fulda.
“Things went well for our first game,” summed up first-year Coyotes’ head coach Janae Kazemba. “We had a big second inning, scoring four runs to take the lead and we played well enough in the field to keep Madelia from scoring more than three runs. Faith Kazemba pitched a real good game for us, shutting the Blackhawks down in five of the innings.”
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