Stanberry High School softball cruises to victory over Platte Valley in the District Quarterfinals

ROSENDALE, Mo. (KQTV) - The 3 seed Stanberry High School softball team came away with an 11-3 victory over 6 seed Platte Valley in the Class 1 District 7 Quarterfinals on Thursday.

Platte Valley was able to tie the game at 3 in the top of the 3rd but the Lady Bulldogs then scored a combined 8 runs over the next 3 innings in the victory.

Not a single batter struck out for Stanberry, the team racked up 13 hits and 11 runs. Junior Allie Schieber finished 2-for-4 with 3 RBI, junior Olivia McQuinn finished 1-for-3 with 3 RBI, junior Tasha Stoll was 3-for-4 and 1 RBI on an inside-the-park home run, sophomore Harper Heyde was a perfect 4-for-4 with 1 RBI and senior Josi Moffatt was 1-for-4 with 1 RBI.

Stanberry also got 7 strikeouts from junior Alyssa Wallace on the mound while she gave up 3 hits and 4 runs.

"Our goal was to just come out hot tonight and we definitely did execute," said Heyde. "We focused on scoring every single inning and we definitely did that well. I'm just so proud of our team for doing that."

"It's a big one. I think that starts the ball rolling as far as how the week goes. Hopefully we can carry this into the rest of Districts," said Stanberry head coach Riley Gabbert.

Stanberry improves to 10-4 on the season and next will face 2 seed Maysville in the Class 1 District 7 Semifinals on Monday, October 19th at 4:30 pm in King City.

Platte Valley finishes the season with a 9-11 record. Junior Jocelyn Bottorff finished 1-for-3 with 2 RBI and junior Chloe Peery was 1-for-3 with 1 RBI in the defeat.