Pearl River splits on first day of Wildcat Invitational

POPLARVILLE, Miss. — Pearl River continued to swing a hot bat on Day 1 of the annual Wildcat Invitational on Friday. The Lady Wildcats racked up 16 runs on 17 hits and nine extra-base hits to split the day's games. PRCC beat Marion Military Institute 7-3 in the opener before falling to LSU-Eunice 17-9 in five innings.

PEARL RIVER 7, MARION MILITARY INSTITUTE 3

Brooke Fagan (Kiln; Hancock) flashed her athleticism to score the game’s first run in the third inning. Marion Military Institute’s first baseman snagged a line drive down the run but her attempt to double up a PRCC runner at second base sailed into shallow center field, allowing Fagan to race home from third.

PRCC added two runs in the fourth on a Jordan Lee (Redwood; Tri-County) single up the middle with the bases loaded. The hit scored Elizabeth Taggard (Picayune) and Neely McLeod (Lucedale; George County).

The Lady Wildcats blew the door open in a four-run sixth courtesy of a two-run double by Alyssa Pinero (Picayune) that scored Krista Robles (Destrehan, La.) and Jenna Smith (D’Iberville), an error off the bat of Jenna Comeaux (Lafayette, La.; Comeaux) that scored Pinero and an Autumn Clark (Runnelstown; Perry Central) double that scored Comeaux.