By JIM WALKER

jim.walker@irontontribune.com

COAL GROVE — Just call her Abbie K. Deeds.

In baseball and softball, K is the symbol for a strikeout and Coal Grove senior Abbie Deeds struck out all 15 batters she faced for a perfect game as the Lady Hornets blanked the Fairland Lady Dragons 10-0 in a 5-inning Ohio Valley Conference game on Monday.

Deeds threw just 70 pitches of which 51 were strikes. Of the 15 strikeouts, 13 were swinging.

Coal Grove (11-3, 8-1) got the only run it needed in the first inning as Deeds led off with a hit, stole second, took third on a ground out and scored on a passed ball.

The lead went to 3-0 in the second on singles by Mia Haynes, Braelie Hitchcock, Kendall Taylor and Brianna Malone.

The lead ballooned to 8-0 in the fourth.

Haynes singled and Taylor had an RBI double. She came around to score when Malone reached on an error.

Deeds then walked and Izzy Kitts unloaded a 3-run homer to cap the rally.

The Lady Hornets created the run rule win with 2 runs in the fifth.

With one out, Haynes singled and Kasey Vanderhoof and Hitchcock followed with back-to-back RBI doubles.

Haynes was 3-3 as Coal Grove had 9 hits. Kitts was 1-3 with a home run and 3 RBI, Vanderhoof 1-3 with a double and RBI, and Hitchcock 1-3 with a double and 2 RBI.

Fairland fell to 0-16 and 0-9 in the OVC.

Fairland 000 00 = 0 0 1

Coal Grove 120 52 = 10 9 0

Maddie Short and Neveah Clark. Abbie Deeds and Rylee Black. W-Deeds (IP-5.0, H-0, R-0, K-15, BB-0). L-Short (IP-4.1, H-9, R-10, ER-4, K-5, BB-2). Hitting-Fairland: None; Coal Grove: Abbie Deeds 1-2, Izzy Kitts 1-3 3-RBI HR, Mia Haynes 3-3, Kasey Vanderhoof 1-3 RBI 2B, Braelie Hitchcock 1-3 2-RBI 2B, Kendall Taylor 1-1 RBI 2B, Brianna Malone 1-2 RBI.