FARGO (NewsDakota)- When playing the best team in Class B softball, any chances must be capitalized on, and for Carrington, they missed a huge opportunity in the first inning.

Then the Squirrels made them pay.

A seven-run bottom of the first inning followed the Cardinals stranding the bases loaded, and the top-seeded Central Cass Squirrels continued their domination of Class B softball with a 17-0, five inning win over Carrington in a Class B Quarterfinal at Tharaldson Park on Thursday afternoon.

The first two pitches of the game from Squirrel starter Whitney Mitchell were hit for singles by Maara Kutz and Isabel Wendel, and after two strikeouts, Brynn Smith singled.  But the sophomore sensation Mitchell struck out Lauren Hendrickson to avert the threat, and the Cardinals managed just one more hit, a Kutz single, the rest of the way.

Meanwhile, the Central Cass offense, which has now scored 80 runs in four postseason games, went to work on Carrington sophomore Calleigh Hewitt, who went 2 2/3 innings, scoring seven in the first, starting with an Aspyn Prien run-scoring double, another in the second, five in the third, and four in the fourth with six of the nine batters having multi-hit games, including three RBI from both Bradey Bosse and Keelyn Flanagan.

Carrington will face Bottineau in the consolation semifinals on Friday with coverage on KDAK The Cardinal beginning at around 1:15pm.

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