Delphi's Lady Oracle softball team had a busy week with six games, including four shutouts for 12 on the season.

Vs. Rossville

Delphi over powered the Lady Hornets, winning this game 11-0 in five innings, played at Rossville. Brittney Atwood was on the mound and collected her ninth win of the season in this one hit shut out. Atwood also had 9 strikeouts.

The Lady Oracles collected 17 hits. Whitney Arion led the way going 4 for 4 and scoring 4 runs. Right behind was Chanler Norman who was 3 for 3 while Morgan Lavy and Danni Burge were 2 for 3. Arion, along with teammates Carli Rouhier and Leslie Kayser, slugged doubles.

Vs. Sheridan

The Lady Oracles were on the road for the second night in a row against Hoosier Conference foe Sheridan. The Lady Oracles won the game 4-0 for their second shutout in as many nights. The Oracles were led defensively by senior catcher Kayser, who made three diving catches behind the plate to grab Lady Blackhawk foul balls and threw out one of the few Blackhawk base runners as she attempted to steal third base. Luckily, Kayser was playing great defense as the rest of the infield committed one error each.

Most nights the Lady Oracles play close to error free defense so a dominating performance on the mound helped them get through the game. Freshman Caitlin Schock allowed only two hits and threw 8 strikeouts to collect her fourth win of the season.

At the plate Arion, Norman, Burge and Brittney Rhodes all had doubles, Arion had two herself. Norman, Burge and Rhodes collected the RBI for the evening.

After their only night of rest for the week, the Lady Oracles hosted Sheridan with the Oracles taking the 8-0 victory for their third shutout in a row.

Atwood got the win, giving up 3 hits and throwing 9 strikeouts. Atwood's record increased to 10-2. No Blackhawk player got beyond second base.

At the plate the Lady Oracles collected ten hits by 9 different batters with senior Aspen Wallace being the only Oracle to get two hits. Norman and Rouhier both had triples with Rouhier's coming in the third inning when the Oracles exploded for 6 runs. At one point in the 3rd inning, 5 Oracles in a row reached base.

Vs. Central Catholic

On this night the Lady Knights of Central Catholic used bunts to push two runs in, the last one in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Oracles 2-1. Freshman Schock, who got her second loss of the season, pitched a great game, giving up 3 hits and collecting 5 strikeouts.

The Lady Oracles were held to six hits but were unable to string any hits together. In the first inning Arion scored the Oracles' lone run. Arion got a lead off single, sped to third on a sacrifice bunt by Norman, and scored on a passed ball. The Oracles looked to be in good shape to score more as they loaded bases on a double by Schock, a walk by Burge and single by Rhodes but were unable to push any more runs home.

In the fourth inning Norman made her way to third with one out, Burge attempted to bunt her home but Burge was called out at first and after a big collision at home plate Norman was called out too. Rhodes was stranded on third the next inning. The Lady Knights' runs were scored by sisters Ashley and Brittney Adams. Sophomore Ashley scored the first Knight run in the fourth after a single to left, made her way to third on a bunt and error by the Oracles, then scored on a second bunt. The pitchers duel continued to the ninth inning when senior Brittney Adam,s who leads the Lafayette area in hitting, got on after a line drive went off Schock's ankle.

Adams stole second, was sacrificed to third by Natalee Gruse, then scored on a suicide squeeze by Sami Gruse.

Vs. Tipton (double header)

Fourteen hours after suffering their fourth loss of the season the Lady Oracles hosted Hoosier Conference foe Tipton. The Lady Oracles exacted revenge on the Lady Blue Devils by smashing 19 hits in the opening game. All but one Oracle had a hit, with Norman collecting four and Rhodes, Schock, and starting pitcher Atwood having three. Burge had 3 RBIs.

On the mound Atwood got her eleventh win of the season, throwing 7 strikeouts.

In the second game, the Lady Oracles got shutout number 12 on the season, beating Tipton 4-0. Schock got the win, giving up two hits and throwing 8 strikeouts. Rouhier went 3 for 3 at the plate, getting one triple which missed being a home run by inches. Wallace, Jordyn Bieghler and Kayser had all the RBIs, two by Wallace.

Wallace scored on a heads up play in the fourth inning when, while on third base a fly ball by Kayser was caught in the outfield. The Tipton players, thinking it was the third out, rolled the ball toward the mound and all jogged off the field while Wallace tagged up, went home, as the Blue Devils watched in wonderment.

The Lady Oracles have another busy week playing four more games in four days As the Comet is published, the Oracles will be playing at Winamac on Wednesday night and hosting a good Frontier Falcon team on Thursday night.