Negaunee won three of the seven and now has a record of 11-8 this season.

The Miners started out in Iron Mountain on Wednesday, earning 20-1 and 17-3 wins, then went to Cheboygan on Friday and lost both ends of that doubleheader, 1-0 and 16-2.

On Saturday, NHS took the short ride to Alpena to play three opponents there, defeating Garden City 16-1 before falling to the host Wildcats 8-0 and Sandusky 4-2.

After Negaunee was scheduled to host Westwood in a Monday afternoon twinbill, the Miners were getting right back on the road for doubleheaders at Calumet today and at Gladstone on Thursday.

Negaunee sophomore Alyse Robar pitches in a high school softball game played at Cheboygan on Friday. At right is Miners junior third baseman Megan Marker. (Photo courtesy Miya Frederickson)

Here are details from last week’s games:

Negaunee 20, Iron Mt. 1

On Wednesday’s opener in Iron Mountain, Alyse Robar went two innings of scoreless and hitless ball on the pitching rubber for the Miners, striking out six and not walking a batter. She was credited with a pair of “immaculate innings,” striking out the side each inning on the minimum possible nine pitches. Ainsley Brunette worked in relief, too.

Those pitchers got plenty of support as her teammates pounded out 14 hits, including two hits apiece by Natalie Pantti, Delaney Gladwell, Cassie Feys and Megan Marker. Pantti knocked in four runs from No. 9 in the batting order as Negaunee fielders didn’t commit an error.

The big blow was a 10-run second inning as Rheana Nelson hit a two-run double, Pantti a two-run single, Feys a two-run homer and Robar her own solo homer. Pantti added another two-run single in the third, the same inning that Kylie Cardoni hit a two-run triple.

Negaunee 17, Iron Mt. 3

In Wednesday’s nightcap, Brunette earned this pitching victory as starter. In two innings, she gave up three unearned runs — none earned — on two hits and two walks as she fanned two. Olivia Richards went the final three innings in relief.

Negaunee’s Brielle Anderson drove in four runs with two hits, cracking a two-run triple in the opening inning and an RBI double in the third. Robar went 3 for 4 as Gladwell, Marker and Richards each had two hits.

The Miners were also in a felonious mood, stealing 14 bases, including multiple swipes by Pantti, Gladwell, Robar, Anderson and Richards.

Negaunee scored four times in the first and another in the second, with its biggest inning the fourth with six runs keyed by a Feys two-run double.

Cheboygan 1, Negaunee 0

In Friday’s opener at Cheboygan, while the Miners outhit the Chiefs 3-2, they couldn’t get a run home past Cheboygan starter Lydia Kosanke, who went seven innings with 10 K’s and two walks.

Robar was Negaunee’s hard-luck loser as she only allowed an unearned run and two hits and one walks while striking out 11. Cheboygan got its only run in the sixth as it scored on an error.

Cardoni, Anderson and Marker had the Miners’ hits.

Cheboygan 16, Negaunee 2

In Friday’s second game, the Chiefs jumped out early with four runs in the first, five more in the second and seven in the third.

Brunette took the Negaunee pitching loss, going three innings while giving up 12 earned runs on 10 hits and seven walks as she fanned three.

Gladwell, Robar and Nelson each had a hit for the Miners as Robar and Pantti both collected an RBI.

Negaunee 16, Garden City 1

In Saturday’s first game in Alpena, Feys hit a pair of homers in the first and third innings and drove in three runs.

She helped make a winner of Richards, who started and went two innings, not allowing a run nor hit as she walked three and K’d four. Brunette also appeared in relief on the pitching rubber as Negaunee didn’t commit an error.

After Richards hit an RBI double and Nelson an RBI single in the first inning, Feys bombed a two-run homer to center field.

Seven more runs scampered home in the second as Marker hit a two-run double and Nelson an RBI single. An error scored two and wild pitches another two.

Among the Miners’ 14 hits, Nelson went 3 for 4, while Anderson and Richards had two hits apiece, and Gladwell and Anderson each stole multiple bases.

Alpena 8, Negaunee 0

In Saturday’s middle game, Alpena broke open a 1-0 game with seven runs in the top of the sixth, errors scoring two of the runs.

Robar took the loss for Negaunee, allowing eight runs — just three earned — on eight hits as she walked six and fanned eight.

Feys and Marker each had a hit for the Miners.

Sandusky 4, Negaunee 2

In the final game of the week on Saturday, Richards took the loss, going six innings and allowing four runs, three of them earned on seven hits and four walks as she struck out eight.

Feys kept up her power hitting, clubbing a solo homer to center field in the top of the fourth that tied it 1-1.

Nelson and Feys each had an RBI for the Miners.

Story contents based on email received from Negaunee High School softball representative Steph Robar. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.