JOURNAL SPORTS
The Calvary softball team’s drive toward a sixth straight state championship rolled on Thursday as three home runs and a 13-strikeout performance from senior ace Kynzee Anderson propelled the top-seeded Lady Cavaliers to an 8-0 victory over No. 8 Bunkie in a Select Division III state quarterfinal.
Loren Sivils, Jaycee Sledge and Baylor Bockhaus homered for the winners, who scored four times in the sixth inning to blow it open.
Calvary (35-1) will wait until this evening to learn its semifinal opponent next Friday in Sulphur at the state tournament. District rival D’Arbonne Woods, the fourth seed, is hosting No. 5 St. Louis in a 5 o’clock quarterfinal.
Sivils, who clubbed three home runs in three trips to the plate in a regional round three-inning 15-0 rout of Fisher on Tuesday, made it four in a row in the second inning Thursday when she went big fly for a 1-0 lead. Anderson tripled and courtesy runner Halle Brooke Rinaudo scored to double the edge.
Bockhaus contributed a third-inning RBI single and Calvary made it 4-0 in the fifth by scoring on an outfield error. Sledge’s homer upped the lead to 5-0 in the sixth and Bochhaus delivered a two-run blast, her 20th of the year, for the 8-0 margin.
Anderson gave up a leadoff double to open the game and held Bunkie without a hit afterward to secure Calvary’s 12th consecutive state semifinal berth.