WASHINGTON — The softball team at Crimson Cliffs High School capped off its week with a 12-2 home victory over Pine View Friday night in Washington Fields.

“We had a good week of practice and they were seeing the ball really well tonight,” Mustangs coach Marshall Asklind told St. George News after the game ended in the bottom of the sixth.

“We started off really strong and got a little quiet there for an inning or two, and then we were able to come back. It was good to see that,” Asklind added.

Sophomore pitcher Gracie Stucki threw three innings for Crimson, yielding two runs off of four hits. She walked no batters and struck out five Panthers in the win.

Mustangs senior McKenna Cahoon shut the door on Pine View in her three innings of work, giving up no runs and only two hits. The hard throwing right-hander walked two and struck out one.

“McKenna is doing a great job. She has great leadership skills,” Asklind said, noting that he pulled Cahoon out of the game to work on some minor adjustments before putting her back in. 

“She came out with even more intensity than she started with,” he added. “So that was very exciting. She’s definitely one of our leaders.”

Crimson struck for nine runs in the first two frames to quickly put the game out of reach for Pine View.

The highlight of Crimson’s second inning was a three-run moonshot home run by Paisley Lantz. The junior slugger smacked another homer in the sixth and finished with five RBI in the win.

Junior Abbey Morris also swatted a home run for Crimson, which churned out nine hits in the game. Senior Riley Askand had a hit, two RBI and scored three times for the Mustangs.

Crimson evened its Region 10 record at 4-4 after the win and is 8-7 overall.

The Mustangs played Region 10 front-runners Snow Canyon (two 2-1 defeats) and Desert Hills (two high-scoring losses) well in their first meetings and have reason to believe they’ll be ready to face them again come playoff time.

“I think Snow Canyon was a really good series, we had our chances, we’re young,” coach Askind said. “Desert Hills is a quality team. They showed up and took care of business, but come playoff time I think we’re going to see a different result.”

Crimson Cliffs 12, Pine View 0

The series opener at Pine View on Tuesday was much like Friday night’s game.

Mustangs ace McKenna Cahoon allowed just two hits on the road in a relief appearance, striking out seven Panthers in the victory.

Jaycee Day took the loss for Pine View and threw two K’s. The Panthers didn’t help their cause with five errors in the game.

Paisley Lantz homered for Crimson while Abbey Morris collected three hits and two RBI in the victory. Cahoon and Alexis Bang recorded an RBI apiece for the Mustangs as well.

Snow Canyon 18, Cedar 3

At Cedar Friday afternoon, the Snow Canyon Warriors unleashed an offensive barrage to capture a dominant win over the Reds.

Cedar took an early 2-0 lead in the first inning, as Haylee Campbell belted a home run that scored Marley Geddes, who’d walked to lead off.

Snow Canyon then answered with a two-run homer of its own in the second inning, with Chandler Beck going yard to plate Kennadi Gates. The Warriors picked up two more runs in the top of the third to go up 4-2.

Cedar’s Campbell then drilled a solo homer in the bottom of that inning to make it 4-3. But that was the last time the Reds would cross the plate, as it was all Warriors the rest of the way.

Nine different players ended up getting multiple hits for Snow Canyon, including pitcher Avery Thorkelson, who went 5-for-5 at the plate with a homer and two RBI, while Gates, who batted next in the lineup, ended up 4-for-5 with a homer and three RBI.

Meanwhile, Cedar managed just four hits during the contest, including Campbell’s two homers. The Reds also committed five errors in the field, while the Warriors had zero.

Thorkelson pitched the first five innings to picked up the W in the circle, while Cedar’s Sadie Parson also pitched five innings and took the loss.

– written by Jeff Richards

Snow Canyon 16, Cedar 6

The Warriors pounded out 15 hits in the home win on Tuesday, including home runs from five different players: Alyssa Staheli, Allie Landis, Kennadi Gates, Emma Daniel and Chandler Beck.

Staheli, Gates and Daniel had three RBI apiece in the win that ended after Snow Canyon plated four in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Avery Thorkelson picked up the pitching victory for Snow Canyon, throwing seven strikeouts. Sadie Parson took the loss for Cedar, meanwhile, striking out three Warriors in the defeat.

Cedar’s Lexus Ludlow blasted a grand slam in the first inning, putting the Reds briefly ahead 4-0.

Hurricane 16, Dixie 5

The Hurricane Tigers completed Region 10’s third blowout series win of the week, scoring five times in the bottom of the sixth inning to end the game early at home on Friday night.

Aniston Hutchings went the distance on the mound for Hurricane and picked up the victory. Hutchings gave up nine hits and one of the five runs against her was unearned. She walked six and struck out three Flyers batters in the win.

Hutchings, Abby Stout and Faith Fuller knocked out two hits apiece for the winners. Anna Lee, Elizabeth Horsley, Emma Patterson and McKinlee Wright each recorded a hit in the win.

Fuller led the way for the Tigers with four RBI and Wright stole two bases in Hurricane’s win.

Hurricane 14, Dixie 3

The matchup on Tuesday between these two teams at Dixie was much like Friday’s contest in Hurricane.

The Tigers scored four times in the top of the sixth to end the game early.

Elizabeth Horsley led the way for Hurricane this time, driving in three RBI for the winners with her two doubles. Audrey Matua, Emma Patterson and McKinlee Wright had two RBI apiece in the victory.

Abby Stout got the pitching win for the Tigers, throwing the full six innings and yielding three earned runs off three hits. She struck out seven Flyers batters and walked three.

Driving in the three runs in Dixie’s defeat were Jaycie Lundin, Eliza Kesterson and Lila Fitzgerald. Morgan Staheli took the pitching loss, striking out four Tigers and walking six in the defeat.

Games on Tuesday April 18, 7 p.m.

Snow Canyon at Desert Hills, Pine View at Hurricane, Dixie at Crimson Cliffs

Region 10 softball standings (region, overall) as of April 15:

1. Snow Canyon 8-0, 13-6
2. Desert Hills 6-0, 13-4
3. Crimson Cliffs 4-4, 8-7
4. Hurricane 2-5, 8-6
5. Cedar 2-6, 6-11
6. Pine View 1-5, 5-9
7. Dixie 1-5, 5-11

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