Roundup: Lady Reds softball wins, Bears defeated

    The host Calaveras Redskins softball team  prevailed 4-2 over Linden on Tuesday in a battle of  Mother Lode Legue unbeatens.
    Tatiana Beilstein pitched the first four innings for the victory allowing six hits and two runs.
    Megan Walters pitched the final three innings for the save, allowing just one hit while striking out three.
    After Linden scored their two runs in the top of the first, the Lady Reds stormed back with two of their own on a single by Marissa Hukkanen, a walk from Nina Toia and a two-run double by  Preslie Kirk.
    In the third inning, Beilstein singled home Courtney Tarbat for the eventual winning run.
    The Redskins and Lions will have a rematch on Thursday at Linden at 4 p.m.

Cat grad, Vol frosh Frost has first meet
    Sonora High 2011 graduate, and Tennessee Volunteer scholarship track and field freshman, Carson Frost competed in his first Southeastern Conference outdoor meet on March 23.
    Frost, who specializes in the weight and hammer throw, tossed the 16-pound hammer 147 feet, 11 inches and placed 24th out of 52 competitors.
    Frost’s Sonora High record is 155 feet which he threw at the 2011 California State Hammer Meet in May 2011, placing sixth in the state.
    Frost traveled to the meet with two men who are training for the summer Olympics. Garland Porter and Kevin Becker, both Tennessee grads, place third and fifth in the meet.
    In Frost’s first collegiate meet, held at University of Kentucky in January, he finished eighth in the weight throw. He tossed the 35-pound weight 46 feet. His high school record is 66 feet with a 25-pound weight.
    Frost, a communications major, has three more meets in the next four weeks. He is training for the Junior Nationals in Indiana this summer, which is for the top athletes nationwide up to the age of 19.