Wood, Stevens, Welch lift Bobcats to DH sweep

OTTAWA LAKE – Whiteford’s softball team swept Tecumseh with a pair of one-run thriller’s Thursday afternoon.

The Bobcats beat the Indians 5-4 in eight innings in the first game and 11-10 in the second.

Avy Woods hit a walk-off home run in the eighth inning for the win.

The score was 2-2 through seven innings but Tecumseh took a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the eighth. Whiteford tied the game on a sacrifice bunt by Ava Butz and a single by Brooklyn Mills. Wood hit her first career home run for the win.

Peyton Welch earned the win, going the distance.

In Game 2, the Bobcats won 11-10. Welch came into the game in relief and picked up the win.

Megan Butz blasted a home run in the second game.

Ava Stevens went 5-for-7 with two home runs and a double on the night.

“She was a beast at the plate,” Whiteford coach Matt VanBrandt said.

Whiteford hosts Manchester (9:45 a.m.) and Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard (1:45 p.m.)  Saturday.

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