CHICKASHA – Jimmy Darnell’s Lady Chicks got a pair of wins at Elkouri Field Thursday night to finish out their summer season with an impressive 10-2 record.

What was to be a three-way turned into a double-header with Lawton Eisenhower when Anadarko didn’t show up due to a scheduling mixup. Chickasha dominated both games with the Lady Eagles for 8-0 and 8-1 wins.

Pitcher Morgan Singleton put the opener on ice with a grand slam home run in the bottom of the fourth inning, hitting a walkoff laser that ricocheted off the top of the scoreboard like a bullet to end the game. She also got the win in the circle, allowing just two hits and striking out eleven Eisenhower hitters.

The Chicks nickeled-and-dimed Ike to death for seven runs in a first-inning rally that put the nightcap out of reach early. A wild pitch by freshman right-hander Kayle Skidmore in the Ike third spoiled her shutout bid but she struck out seven and allowed two hits for the 8-1 four-inning win.

Chickasha hit the ball well, collecting fourteen hits for the night.

Catcher Paige Hightower’s two-run single in the first inning of game one scored Katie Ballinger and Kayla Woods then Wood’s double scored Ballinger in the second inning for a three-run cushion.

Ellee Powell worked a one-out walk to start the fourth then Ballinger and Woods singled back-to-back to load the bases. Powell scored on a bases-loads walk to Whitney Adams and Ballinger was forced at home on Hightower’s grounder to third to set the table for Singleton’s launch.

Chickasha sent up eleven hitters in the first inning of game two and came out with seven runs on four hits and a pair of Ike errors to take control early. Ballinger got it going reaching on an error, Woods singled and Adams reached on a fielder’s choice as Ike went after Ballinger at third.

Hightower walked to load them up then Skidmore, Ashley Winstone and Evan Bush each singled in runs. Winstone scored from third on a wild pitch, Powell pushed in another run on another Eagle error and Singleton singled in the last two runs of the inning.

Ike dodged a bullet in the second inning but got nicked later. Adams and Hightower singled but were left stranded on an infield popup but Woods drove in an insurance run in the fourth, scoring Singleton with her fifth base hit of the night as game time expired.

Chickasha ends the summer session at 10-2, with their only losses at home to Fletcher and at Westmoore. The rematch with Fletcher was cancelled but they beat Westmoore at Elkouri last week for some payback.

“There are a lot of things that we really need to work on,” Darnell said after the game, “but I saw a lot of girls with the talent to get where we’d like to go.

“We’re swinging the bat a little better but we have to work on getting our bunts down. Defensively, I think we’ve got a very strong infield. Our outfield is a little shaky but we’ll work on that and get them to that level that we need them to play at.”

The girls will take some time off and get back out on the practice field in the last week of July to get ready for their 2008 run.