By TYLER HENRY
Lead Sportswriter - Salina Post
The Southeast of Saline softball team split their mid-season tournament games on Friday, falling to Wamego 11-0 but bouncing back to defeat El Dorado 5-4 on a walk-off Abby Wyatt single.
Game One: Wamego 11, SE of Saline 0
The opener of this two-game set would be one to forget for SES, whose bats went truly cold for the first time all season.
Southeast would be blanked for the first time in the campaign, finding just five hits and a pair of walks against the Wamego starter, and striking out eight times.
The Lady Raiders scored four runs in the first and third, adding another in the fourth and two more in the fifth to win by mercy rule.
Game Two: SE of Saline 5, El Dorado 4
Not discouraged by a rough start, the Lady Trojans bounced back in a game two pitchers duel that saw the teams even at 2 apiece going into the fifth.
El Dorado added a run in the fifth and Southeast responded with one of their own in the sixth, but with another in the seventh, the Wildcats put Southeast down to their final three outs.
With their backs to the wall, SES went to work, tying the game on a Kyiah Samuelson RBI single, and walking it off when Abby Wyatt did the same in the very next at bat.
In the circle, Karlee Zurfluh and Carlee Dye combined to allow just four earned runs, walking just two batters while striking out six.
With this split, SES moves to 11-3, good enough to lead the Osage City regional standings with two weeks left to go in the regular season.
The Lady Trojans will return to league play on Tuesday when they travel to Minneapolis for a date with the Lady Lions.