The Kent\/Auburn Little League Major All-Star fastpitch team opened the state tournament at Northshore Athletic Field in Woodinville with a bang Saturday, hammering South Highline 17-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kalina Despain worked a gem in the circle, going all four innings and allowing just one hit. \u00a0<\/span>Maddy Seumalo led the offense with a double, home run and two RBIs. Also chipping in to the onslaught were Ashley Myrseth Barrera (3 hits, 3 RBIs), Dani Hutson (2 hits, 2 RBIs) and Morgan Emery (2 hits, 2 RBIs).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Kent\/Auburn stars were unable to continue the offensive momentum, falling to Cascade, 3-2. Allison Hand and Jordan Engman each collected an RBI double in the loss. Lisa Kamaunu, Engman and Seumalo combined in the circle to hold Cascade to just three runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a very good game, we just couldn\u2019t get the bats going,\u201d said coach Jeff Kalka.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The weekend split puts Kent\/Auburn into the consolation round, where it will play Pacific out of Edmonds-Woodway at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Northshore Athletic Field.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kent\/Auburn Little League Major All-Star fastpitch team opened the state tournament at Northshore Athletic Field in Woodinville with a bang Saturday, hammering South Highline 17-1.<\/p>\n Kalina Despain worked a gem in the circle, going all four innings and allowing just one hit. Maddy Seumalo led the offense with a double, home run and two RBIs. Also chipping in to the onslaught were Ashley Myrseth Barrera (3 hits, 3 RBIs), Dani Hutson (2 hits, 2 RBIs) and Morgan Emery (2 hits, 2 RBIs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}