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Young leads the way as Henley sweeps Pirates TALENT � Krystal Young was a thorn in the side of the Phoenix High softball team all day Friday. The Henley pitcher tossed a no-hitter in the opening game as the Hornets claimed a 2-1, eight-inning victory, then clubbed a pair of doubles in leading the visitors from Klamath Falls to a 4-0 second-game victory and a sweep of the Skyline Conference doubleheader. "She didn�t overwhelm us by any means but she threw strikes and put a lot of pitches on the outside part of the plate that turned into groundballs," Phoenix coach Rich Ficek said. Henley scored a run in the top of the eighth inning of the opener to take a 2-1 lead. The Pirates then had runners on second and third with one out, but failed to come through with the tying and winning runs. "That was frustrating," Ficek said. "We had our chance." Henley tallied three runs in the first inning of the nightcap as Young drilled a two-run double. In the fourth, Young and winning pitcher Jessica Birt spanked doubles to produce the game�s final run. The two losses dropped the Pirates (8-4, 5-3 Skyline) out of first place, while Henley (6-2) moved into a first-place tie with Illinois Valley (5-1) heading into today�s action. FIRST GAME Henley................................................. 010 000 01 � 2 7 1 Phoenix .............................................. 001 000 00 � 1 0 1 Young and Mills; Ross and Darby. W � Young. L � Ross (7-3). SECOND GAME Henley................................................... 300 010 0 � 4 8 1 Phoenix .................................................000 000 0 � 0 2 5 Birt and Mills; Kohler and Darby. W � Birt. L � Kohler (1-1). 2B � H: Young 2, Birt; P: Moore. Baseball HENLEY 11-12, PHOENIX 4-2 � At Klamath Falls, the Hornets took advantage of windy conditions by belting four home runs and put together enough scoring surges to sweep the Skyline Conference doubleheader. Travis Boshuizen hit a homer in two straight at-bats in the nightcap and held Phoenix to three hits with seven strikeouts in the six-inning affair. Brian Kinsman and Morgan Grohs each blasted two-run homers in the fourth inning of Game 1 and Jason Pryor had a two-run triple as Henley used an eight-run inning to pull away from the Pirates. Phoenix hurt its own cause with four errors in each game, while Henley (8-4, 6-2 Skyline) countered with 24 hits in the twin bill. Landon Rhodes had two hits in both games for Phoenix (5-3 Skyline), while Jake Mahon had a home run in the nightcap. Rhodes and Mahon each had a double in the first game, as did Bobby Dawson and Jason Wolford. FIRST GAME Phoenix..................................................000 012 1 � 4 8 4 Henley...............................................110 801 x � 11 14 3 Rhodes, Wolford (5) and Mahon; Bailey and Pryor. W � Bailey (5-1). L � Rhodes. 2B � P: Rhodes, Dawson, Mahon, Wolford. 3B � H: Pryor. HR � H: Kinsman (5), Grohs (1). SECOND GAME Phoenix.....................................................010 010 � 2 3 4 Henley...................................................002 154 � 12 10 2 Mahon, Wolford (6) and Pearce, Mahon (6); Boshuizen and Pryor. W � Boshuizen (2-1). L � Mahon. 2B � H: Bailey, Telle, Grohs. HR � P: Mahon; H: Boshuizen 2 (2). Mail Tribune Home | Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Dow Jones & Co., Inc. | Privacy | Contact Us Copyright � 2001 Mail Tribune, Inc.