Staff photo by Mike Buhler Kennett's Anna Grantham took an 8-0 win over Sikeston's Caroline Murray in Thursday's girls' tennis match at Kennett High School. The Lady Indians defeated Sikeston 6-3, their second victory over Sikeston in the last eight days. [Click to enlarge]

All three of Kennett's girls' fall sports teams won Thursday, with the softball team shutting out East Prairie 4-0, the tennis team downing Sikeston 6-3 and the volleyball team taking a 25-17, 25-15 win over Doniphan.

Kennett's boys' soccer team did not fare as well, losing 10-0 to Saxony Lutheran at Indian Park. In area volleyball, Gideon disposed of North Pemiscot 25-6, 25-9 and Southland defeated Clarkton 25-6, 27-29, 25-8.

Staff photo by Mike Buhler Kennett's Jordan Malady swings at a pitch Thursday. [Click to enlarge]

On the diamond, Laurel Scales turned in perhaps her most dominant pitching performance of the season, needing just 66 pitches -- 54 of them for strikes -- to toss a one-hitter while striking out eight and facing just one batter over the minimum.

"Laurel's done a good job for us on the mound," Kennett coach Laurie Vaughan said. "She has all season, although sometimes her record doesn't show it because we face some really tough teams. But she's been consistent all season and that's good to see, especially going into districts next week."

The Lady Tribe (8-8) took advantage of four East Prairie errors to score four unearned runs Thursday.

Kennett took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Scales scored on an error, then added another run later in the inning when Allyson Luce -- who reached on the error that plated Scales -- crossed the plate on Kalee Gore's base hit.

The Lady Indians added two more runs in the bottom of the fourth when Gore came home on a Jordan Wagster groundball, then Kasey Ellis capped the rally by scoring on an error.

"We strive and look at getting on base in any opportunity we can," said Vaughan. "Today we capitalized on their mistakes. We've just got to keep doing that from here on out. Hopefully that'll win us ballgames."

Elizabeth Hively was 2-for-3 at the dish, while Gore was also 2-for-3 with a run and RBI.

Tennis
Kennett 6, Sikeston 3
At Kennett High School, the Lady Tribe continued its late-season surge as it downed Sikeston for the second time in eight days in the regular-season finale.

Hanna Lack and Campbell Moore went to a tiebreaker before Lack pulled out the 9-8 (7-3) win, while Anna Grantham recorded another shutout victory by defeating Sikeston's Carolyn Murray.

Also recording singles' victories for Kennett were Susan Shetley and Megan Walker, while Lack teamed with Christy Doughten and Walker combined with Grantham to pick up wins in doubles.

Sikeston took a 2-1 win

The Lady Indians (8-3) kick off district play at Sikeston next Thursday as they pursue their second district title in three years.

Volleyball
Kennett def. Doniphan
At KHS, the Lady Indians got four kills and five digs from Leanna Siebenhuener as they got by the Donettes.

Megan Lack added three kills for Kennett (8-6-1), while Ciara Dewrock had a pair. Jessie Greenway had six assists and Brea Riddle added five, while Lauren Dollins chipped in five digs.

In the jayvee game, the Lady Tribe (6-4) won 25-12, 25-12, its sixth straight win.

Gideon def. North Pemiscot
At Wardell, the Lady Bulldogs jumped out to a 13-0 first-set lead behind the serving of Erin Richardson and never looked back.

Cassy Woolverton led the way for Gideon with 10 kills, while Lindsey Wilson added seven and Megan Parker chipped in three, plus four aces. Richardson also dished off 15 assists.

The Lady 'Dogs host Bernie tonight.

Southland def. Clarkton
At Clarkton, the Lady Rebels (12-11-1) got back over .500 with behind big games from the trio of Brett Higgins, Darcy McMinn and Magen Hembrey.

The three combined to go 33-for-35 from the service line, with Higgins serving five aces, while Hembrey added three and McMinn had a pair.

Higgins and McMinn also had six kills each, while Hembrey added four.

Soccer
Saxony 10, Kennett 0
At Indian Park, the Tribe fell by the mercy rule to the Crusaders as it fell to 0-8 on the season.

The news wasn't all bad for Kennett, as its jayvee squad picked up its first win of the year, a 2-1 decision, to go to 1-5-1 on the year behind goals from Andrew Hooper and Sean Callawaert.

The Indians head to Poplar Bluff Monday.