Trotters outlast Lady Lions for first win
Plains sophomore Aubree Butcher heads into a crowd of Trotters as she crossed home plate after smacking a home run in the team's first win of the season over Eureka. (Tracy Scott, Valley Press)
Trotters' infielder Cooper Spurr (dark coat), tags out Eureka's Marley Neesvig, who was caught off base during their game this past week in Plains. (Tracy Scott, Valley Press)
Plains' Cooper Spurr slides safely across home plate during the Trotters 18-16 win over Eureka this past Thursday in Plains. (Tracy Scott, Valley Press)
Even in the talent-laden ranks of the Western conference fastpitch softball skirmishes, they had to break through.
Even though their roster is loaded with eighth, ninth and tenth graders, with one senior and two juniors doing their best, victory had eluded the Plains Trotters throughout the first half of the season.
But the inevitable triumph as youth morphs into experience on the Trotters roster was bound to happen.
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