Softball Recap: Oak Forest Academy Wins High-Profile Match Against Columbia Academy

By Team Reports Sep 17, 2024, 7:05pm

Softball Recap: Oak Forest Academy Yellowjackets vs. Columbia Academy Cougars

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Oak Forest Academy is ranked highly in their home state and on Tuesday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Columbia Academy. The Oak Forest Academy Yellowjackets never let the Columbia Academy Cougars onto the board and left with a 12-0 win. Considering the Yellowjackets have won six games by more than five runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.

Oak Forest Academy got a massive performance out of Enslee Casanova, who went 2-for-3 with a home run, two runs, and two RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Kori Travis, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 1-for-1.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Oak Forest Academy was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .571. That's the best batting average they've posted all season.

Oak Forest Academy's victory was their eighth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 12-4-1. As for Columbia Academy, their loss dropped their record down to 3-3.

Oak Forest Academy will head out to face off against Silliman Institute at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Oak Forest Academy is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.4 runs per game this season. Columbia Academy does not have any more games scheduled as of now.

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