PARKERSBURG — Visiting Point Pleasant scored five runs, half of its total on the day, in the first inning and try as Parkersburg South did, the Patriots never caught up in dropping a 10-5 softball decision Thursday afternoon on senior night at Godbey Field. South’s three seniors — Paige Winans, Allie Taylor and Kurin Worgall — were introduced and honored in a ceremony before the game. For the Big Blacks, now 9-3, winning pitcher Leah Cochran slugged a two-run homer in the fourth frame and a pair of Point Pleasant players had three hits — Izzy King, 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs, and Kelsie Byus, 3-for-5 with a double and RBI. South, now 6-6, was paced at the plate by losing hurler Ashlee Ellison, who went 2-for-3 with two doubles, and both Kelly Amos and Kylee McCorkle going 2-for-4 with an RBI while Worgall doubled to drive in a tally. The five-run first inning for Point saw it bat around plus one as the Big Blacks, already ahead 1-0 with two outs, proceeded to coax two walks in a row to force in a run, followed by a hit-by-pitch to bring another run home and finally Izzy King slashing a two-bagger over the first base and down the right-field line for two more scores to grab the big early lead. South, though, did get a run back in the bottom of the first when Ellison belted a double that hit at the base of the right-center field fence and McCorkle slapped a RBI single into left field, And the Patriots tacked on another tally in the bottom of the third stanza on an Aurora Slusher single up the middle and Ellison again doubling to get Slusher to third base, from where she scored on Kelly Amos’ slow infield roller to the right side for a 4-3 putout. But Point made it 8-2 in the top of the fourth with a 3-spot on back-to-back doubles with Tanner King getting an RBI before Cochran belted her two-run roundtripper over the left-field fence. The Patriot girls chopped their deficit down to 8-4 by two more runs in the last of the fourth on both an RBI single and double respectively by Alexis Feick and Worgall, Inning No. 5 saw Point scoring RBI singles off the bats of Byus and Kelsey Price to reach the 10-run mark prior to South getting its fifth run in bottom of inning five on Taylor’s sacrifice fly. But that was to be the end of the scoring in the game. “That first inning hurt us,” said South head coach Cindi Taylor, relating “there were two hits there we should have had outs on. And we didn’t put enough girls on the bases and then move them around.” She added that “we have to get more intensity when we get down. All nine of them playing need to want to be up to bat and need to want the ball hit to them, but we’re not there yet. I think they’re still a little afraid to make mistakes.”