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Lady Cats demolish Gainesville, 19-0
BY ANDREW MAY, amay@acnpapers.com
Maybe she was hoping to impress future supporters that mistakenly wandered into the stands thinking it was a collegiate game. Or perhaps she was just getting comfortable with what will be her new home beginning next season.
Whatever the case, Celina senior Jasmine San Miguel was a major thorn in Gainesville’s side Tuesday in a District 9-3A game at North Central Texas College.
San Miguel, who recently signed with NCTC, put on a hitting clinic to power the Lady Cats to an absurdly lopsided 19-0 victory. She went 4-for-4 at the plate with four RBIs and another extra-base hit, her fourth in three district outings.
“She’s done a good job, she really has,” head coach Billy Coleman said. “She’s really settled down with two outs, eliminating the two-out walk. She’s doing a good job of giving us a chance to win every time she takes the circle. That’s all I can ask for.”
It was evident early on that Gainesville (5-14, 0-3) would be in for a long night despite failing to make it past five innings. Sophomore leadoff hitter Lindsie Knowles started things off with an inside-the-park home run, the team’s second in district play, and San Miguel added an RBI single.
That was only the tip of the iceberg. The real onslaught began in the second inning.
Drummond, who drove in three runs, registered the first of her two hits on a double before San Miguel plated two more with a single. Sophomore Taylor Norris, whose three-run inside-the-park homer helped Celina take down Prosper, 9-3, last week in the district home opener, later collected an RBI on a fielder’s choice that brought home sophomore pinch runner Ashley Garcia to give the Lady Cats a comfortable 8-0 lead.
“We took care of business early,” Coleman said. “If you go out and play hard, good things will happen. We’re starting to bring it all together.”
The six-spot was duplicated in the top half of the next stanza on successive bases-loaded walks by San Miguel and Drummond. Celina, ranked No. 12 in the state in 3A, made it 14-0 after three innings on RBI singles by Knowles and junior outfielder Olivia Braddock.
Sophomore Paige Mongillo stretched the lead to 16 runs with a single in the fourth that scored Drummond and Garcia. Drummond scored sophomore shortstop Shelby Carter with a sacrifice fly, and in the final inning Kassidy Holmes roped an RBI double.
All told, the Lady Leopards were only able to put four balls in play off of Drummond, who was well on her way to a perfect game before Gainesville’s Sarah Gerken broke it up in the bottom of the fifth with a two-out, full-count walk.
Gerken had much less success on the mound, giving up 11 runs (9 earned) before being spelled by Madyson Bond. Celina used virtually every weapon at its disposal to make both Gerken and Bond look pedestrian: Knowles finished with two hits and two RBIs; Braddock had four hits and two runs; Carter added two hits and three runs; Norris and Mongillo both had two RBIs; Drummond drove in three; and San Miguel stockpiled four hits.
“She came out ready to play,” Coleman said of San Miguel. “She did a really good job behind the plate.”
The Lady Cats have pitched two shutouts in their first three district games by outscoring their opponents, 37-3. Celina, the only remaining district unbeaten, will host Whitesboro at 5 p.m. Friday.
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