The losses are beginning to pile up on the Allen Community College softball team.
Following Tuesday’s sweep by Johnson County Community College, the Red Devils are now 8-15 and coach Jaime Jensen is growing more and more frustrated with her team’s performance.
“At this point, we’ve had a lot of losses and those losses have been by a lot,” Jensen said. “It doesn’t even matter who we are playing, because we have to play with heart and find it within ourselves.”
In game one, Allen sophomore Raegan Beckley started off strong on the mound with two shutout innings, but the wheels came off in the third inning.
Beckley gave up three runs in the third and three more in the fourth inning before being pulled.
Freshman Dela Boyd came in for Beckley and gave up one more in the fourth and three more in the fifth, before Courtney Gard relieved her and gave up one run and only recorded one out before the game was called at 10-0 after five innings.
“Right now, we are just getting hit hard,” Jensen said. “We need confidence, because we have to have something solid on the mound in order to respond back to.”
Despite the pitchers’ struggles, the offense wasn’t any better. The Red Devils only had two hits in the entire game with one from Winter Henry and the other from Chelsea Lake.
“At this point, we are trying to put an offensive team out there, but they are not responding to that,” Jensen said. “Every game is up in the air as to where everyone is going to be because no one is competing to win a starting spot. At this point, I’m giving everyone a shot. It is just really hard, because we have the potential.”
Game two wasn’t much smoother as the Red Devils fell 9-1 in six innings.
Gard started game two and gave up six runs before she was relieved after recording just five outs.
“It is hard to come back when we are down by so much every game,” Jensen said.
Beckley got the Red Devils out of the second inning and pitched the next four innings without allowing an earned run, but unfortunately for Beckley, a trio of errors were committed behind her which allowed three additional runs to score.
Henry — who had two hits, but also an error — scored in the fifth inning on a Lake hit to record the only run of the day for the Red Devils.
“We need to put up runs,” Jensen said. “We have to put something together. We got a lot of people on today then nothing.”
