The West Prairie/Southeastern softball team held oncebeaten Beardstown in check until the later innings and the visiting Tigers would go on to take a 9-1 non-conference victory over the Cyclones Thursday in Colchester.
Beardstown’s Ola Quigley led off the game with a single before stealing second and eventually scoring on an infield throwing error to grab a 1-0 lead.
WP/SE would threaten in the bottom of the first after Addalyn Stanberry drew a lead-off walk from Beardstown starter Khloe Kearns. Tegan Rigg reached on a one-out single and then stole second to put runners on second and third.
But Kearns struck out Adriana Starks and retired Kenadie Webster on a ground ball to first to get out of the inning.
The score remained the same until the third when Beardstown scored twice off of WP/SE starter Arianna Soule who had held the Tigers to just the one hit through the first two innings.
