Lady Mavericks crush Cigarroa

by Rey Sifuentes Jr.

C.C. Winn High School’s varsity softball team demolished Laredo Cigarroa 15-1 in five innings on Friday.  The Lady Mavericks scored a run in the first inning, four in the second, three in the third and seven in the fourth. C.C. Winn amassed 18 hits and only committed a single error.
     Ronnie Valdez touched home base for C.C. Winn’s first run, during the opening inning, off of a single by Aimee Ramirez. In the second inning, Rosemary Hernandez reached home on a single.
     Hernandez scored again in the third inning as did Krystal Contreras. Valdez belted a homerun in the fourth inning which brought in a couple of runs.
     The Lady Mavericks – at the start of this week – were 7-5 and tied with three other teams for third place in District 29-5A.
     “We gotta make sure we win our remaining district games,” Head Coach Jesus Suarez said. “We have to go down and beat the Laredo teams and hopefully win out which will put us in a great position to make the playoffs.”
     Suarez knows running through the 29-5A gauntlet for a second time will be no picnic.
     “It is going to be tough, especially against Laredo LBJ and United,” Suarez said. “We beat both of those teams here at home during the first round, now we have to go down there to Laredo and beat them again and it’s always tough playing in Laredo.”
     Spearing the Lady Mavericks from the mound is ace hurler Krystal Contreras.
     “She has done a wonderful job for us this season,” Suarez said. “She is very consistent with her pitches, throws strikes, has an arsenal consisting of five pitches which she has very good control of and always keeps us in the game. If we can just score more runs to help her, then we will have better chances of winning.”
     The Lady Mavericks can help their chances by taking care of business on the field.
     “We just have to continue making the routine plays,” Suarez said. “Once we begin hitting the routine plays, everything else will fall into place. In the games we have lost this season, we just did not make the routine plays but we became very solid defensively once we fixed that.”