{"id":47137,"date":"2026-04-10T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/47137\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:47:07","slug":"geneva-softball-beats-madison-5-2-behind-hunt-strong-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/47137\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva softball beats Madison 5-2 behind Hunt strong outing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Geneva softball<\/a> team broke things open with a three-run third inning and leaned on a steady performance in the circle to knock off Madison, 5-2, on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Eagles piled up 12 hits and got a complete-game effort from freshman pitcher Morgan Hunt<\/a> to secure the win.<\/p>\n

Madison struck first, getting on the board in the opening inning when Paige Higgins<\/a> scored, giving the Blue Streaks an early 1-0 lead. But Geneva answered in a big way in the third, sending three runs across to take control.<\/p>\n

Claire Cafaro<\/a> delivered a key extra-base hit, finishing with a triple, two RBIs, and a run scored, while Caidyn Siegel<\/a> drove in two runs to pace the middle of the order. Kailyn Cerjan<\/a> added two hits, including a double, and scored twice as the Eagles\u2019 lineup consistently applied pressure.<\/p>\n

Geneva extended the lead with single runs in the fifth and seventh innings. Ella Walker<\/a> tripled and drove in a run, and Addie Sheppard<\/a> added a double as part of the Eagles\u2019 12-hit attack.<\/p>\n

Madison managed to push across another run in the sixth, with Ally Negin<\/a> scoring and Addison Wargula<\/a> picking up an RBI, but the Blue Streaks couldn\u2019t overcome Geneva\u2019s third-inning surge.<\/p>\n

Hunt handled the rest in the circle, going all seven innings while allowing just five hits and two runs \u2014 neither earned \u2014 while striking out seven.<\/p>\n

On the other side, Higgins battled through a complete game for Madison, striking out eight over seven innings.<\/p>\n

Top Players<\/p>\n

Geneva<\/p>\n

Morgan Hunt: 7 IP, 5 H, 2 R (0 ER), 7 K; 2-2, 1 R, 1 BBClaire Cafaro: 1-3, 3B, 2 RBI, 1 R, 1 BBKailyn Cerjan: 2-4, 2 R, 2BElla Walker: 2-4, 3B, 1 RBI<\/p>\n

Madison<\/p>\n

Paige Higgins: 1-4, 1 R; 7 IP, 8 KAlly Negin: 1-4, 1 RNatalie Best<\/a>: 1-2, 1 BBMore Softball News From OhioVarsity.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Geneva softball team broke things open with a three-run third inning and leaned on a steady performance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27295,27296,27297,16609,27298,16610,27299,16613,65,10793,16614,27300,27301,16616,27302,27303,16617,27304,27305,27306],"class_list":{"0":"post-47137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-addie-sheppard","9":"tag-addison-wargula","10":"tag-ally-negin","11":"tag-caidyn-siegel","12":"tag-camille-horvath","13":"tag-claire-cafaro","14":"tag-cvc-softball","15":"tag-ella-walker","16":"tag-geneva","17":"tag-geneva-eagles","18":"tag-geneva-softball","19":"tag-gianna-markijohn","20":"tag-hannah-welch","21":"tag-kailyn-cerjan","22":"tag-madison-blue-streaks","23":"tag-madison-softball","24":"tag-morgan-hunt","25":"tag-natalie-best","26":"tag-paige-higgins","27":"tag-payton-toward"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116381197475945199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}