The Warren Central Lady Vikes slow-pitch softball team christened Lucy Young Field on Friday with an efficient 10-0 victory in five innings over error-prone South Delta.

The Lady Bulldogs were a fill-in for Port Gibson, which canceled the scheduled game with WC. The Lady Vikes (1-0) had nine hits and took advantage of eight South Delta errors to win the first game on what was Lady Vikes Field until June when the field was re-named for the longtime WC coach.

“We’ve been working hard the last two weeks and we really appreciate South Delta coming down here on such short notice,” said Young, in her 33rd year coaching at WC. “We had several key hits and made a couple of defensive errors, but nothing we can’t work on.”

The Lady Vikes’ lone error came in the fifth inning on an errant throw, but pitcher Mandy Fuller got out of a first-and-third jam by retiring two straight batters in the fifth to end the game. Fuller, who has only been practicing with WC for a week because of her role on a select fast-pitch team, allowed a second-inning single to Samantha Robinson and a fifth-inning single to Quinyata Lindsey, but the Lady Bulldogs had only one runner reach third base.

“I thought Mandy did a good job on the mound and she will get more consistent,” Young said.

Offensively, Fuller reached base three times, scored two runs and had an RBI and Anna Griffing had two hits and an RBI. The big hit came in the third inning when freshman Krista Cortezie hit a bases-clearing double to extend a 4-0 lead to 7-0. She later scored to give WC an 8-0 lead after the third inning. Cortezie also singled in the first inning as the Lady Vikes took a 4-0.

Katie Busby also had an RBI single for WC in the third inning.

In the bottom of the fourth, pinchhitter Kendall Parker reached on an error and scored on a two-out hit by Kaitlyn Patton. Fuller followed by reaching on an error, then broke for second to bait a throw and allow Patton to scored the 10th run of the game.

Warren Central is scheduled to host Ridgeland on Tuesday at 6 p.m.