Cass County Central's Heather Hauschild slides into second with a stolen base in the 8-4 win over Nebraska City.

Pioneer second baseman Hannah Mitchel robs Haylie Johnson of a fourth inning base hit with a leaping grab.

LeighAnn Novotny recorded her first varsity win with the 8-4 win over Nebraska City.

Lauren Stohlmann slaps one of her two base hits against the Pioneers.

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		Malanie Gist Led the Crush offense with 7 hits in 10 at-bats during the three game Syracuse Invitational. Malanie drove in two runs and scored three times.

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Crush Place Fourth at Syracuse Invite (8-27-11)

Cass County Central beat Nebraska City, 8-4, in the opening round of the Syracuse Invite, then dropped a 5-3 decsion to the host Rockets before losing to Bishop Neumann, 3-0, in the consolation contest.

Bishop Neumann 3, Cass County Central 0
Neumann’s Elizabeth Homes, a freshman right-hander, limited Cass County Central to three hits and the Cavaliers played errorless defense en route to a 3-0 victory in the consolation game of the Syracuse Invitational.

The Crush threatened just twice in the game, advancing runners to third in the sixth and seventh inning but couldn’t get the timely hit necessary to dent the scoring column.

Senior center fielder Cera Woita went 2-for-3 at the plate driving in two runs for the Cavaliers.

Crush ace, Heather Hauschild, suffered the loss, giving up just five hits, striking out seven while walking one Neumann batter.

Cass Country Central travels to Plattsmouth for a triangular with the Blue Devils and Bennington on Tuesday with action scheduled to begin at 4:30.

Syracuse 5, Cass County Central 4
Cass County Central suffered their first loss of the young season, falling to Syracuse, 5-4, in eight innings.

The first five innings of the game was a pitching duel between C4’s Heather Hauschild and Alyx Beckmann of Syracuse as neither team could mount a consistent offensive attack

The Rockets scored first, plating three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on four hits and one Crush error. But Cass County Central answered with three runs of their own in the top of the seventh to knot the score at 3-3.

C4’s Haylie Johnson started things off by living on an error with Cody Meyer moving her to second base on a solid single through the shortstop/third baseman gap. Two outs later, after each had advanced on a Hauschild ground out, an RBI single by Malanie Gist, a Rocket error on Abby Tlustos’ grounder and a Lauren Stohlmann RBI double to right field tied the score at 3-3.

Syracuse was unable to score in the bottom of the seventh as the game went into tiebreaker mode with each team starting a runner at second base in their half of the frame.

Cass County Central scored in the top of the eighth by advancing Carlee Derby to third on a dropped third strike, then scoring on a passed ball. But Syracuse countered with two runs on a three-base error and a game winning RBI single by Sarah Griswell, her third hit of the game, to pull out a 5-4 victory..

Cass County Central 8, Nebraska City 4
Cass County Central opened the Syracuse Invitational with an 8-4 victory over Nebraska City.

The Pioneers were in front 2-1 before the Crush took the lead for good in the fourth inning, scoring twice on singles by Lauren Stohlmann and Addy Thomas with assistance from two Nebraska City errors.

The Crush upped their lead to 6-2 by scoring three runs in the fifth inning on RBI singles by Heather Hauschild, Malanie Gist and Cody Meyer then tacked on two more scores in the seventh on a pair of RBI singles by Abbie Tlustos and Carlee Derby.

The Pioneers scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh and had the bases loaded with two outs but the Crush held on to post the 8-4 win.

Sophomore LeighAnn Novotny recorded her first varsity victory, throwing 4.2 innings, recording four strikeouts while walking two.