By JIM WALKER

Tribune Sports Editor

CHESAPEAKE — If walks will haunt, the Chesapeake Lady Panthers’ softball field must have seemed like a haunted house.

Chesapeake used 13 walks and six hit batsmen to help fuel a 19-2 win over the Coal Grove Lady Hornets on Monday in the Division III sectional semifinals.

Conversely, Chesapeake’s Sarah Rice fired a one-hitter and walked only four to get the win. She struck out six.

Chesapeake (5-10) had seven hits with Caitlin Heffner going 2-3 with four runs batted in. Myky Harmon was 1-2 with a three-run homer. Rice walked four times while Sarah Mayo, Anna Mayo and Jordan Porter were each hit twice by a pitch.

Abby Harmon had the Lady Hornets’ only hit.

After Coal Grove got a run in the top of the first inning, Chesapeake used three walks, an RBI single by Porter and a two-run double by Ali Ransbottom to take a 4-1 lead.

Six walks, three hit batsmen and a two-run double by Heffner keyed an 8-run second inning.

Four more walks, a two-run single by Heffner and Harmon’s three-run blast generated seven runs in the third.

Chesapeake plays at Rock Hill in the sectional final at 5 p.m. on Friday. The Lady Panthers host South Point Tuesday and play River Valley on Wednesday and Thursday in Ohio Valley Conference games.

Coal Grove 101 00 = 2 1 2

Chesapeake 487 0x = 19 7 1

Kelsey Grove, McKayla Truesdale (2), Amber Riley (2), Kelsey Grove (3) and Morgan Sites. Sarah Rice and Caitlin Heffner. W-Rice (K-6, BB-4). L-Grove. 2-Chesapeake: Caitlin Heffner, Ali Ransbottom. HR-Chesapeake: Myky Harmon. Hitting-Coal Grove: Abby Harmon 1-2; Chesapeake: Caitlin Heffnere 2-3 rbi-4, Ali Ransbottom 1-2, Jordan Porter 1-1, Jessica Adkins 1-1, Alyssa Arthur 1-1, Myky Harmon 1-2 rbi-3.