Everybody hit. Everybody scored. Some of them, almost certainly, yee-hawed.

Madison Pant pitched a five-inning perfect game, and all 11 Warren Central players who got an at-bat had a hit, an RBI, and scored a run as the Lady Vikes beat Ridgeland 22-0 in their MHSAA Region 2-6A softball opener on Tuesday.

Warren Central (5-8, 1-0 Region 2-6A) won for the fourth time in five games after losing seven of its first eight. It has a doubleheader at Columbus on Friday before facing perennial state power and Region 2-6A favorite Neshoba Central on the road on April 1.

“It’s great at this time of the year because it’s district play,” Warren Central coach Brian Ellis said of the team’s hot streak. “Our schedule’s pretty tough. But you have to beat the best teams to win a state championship, so that’s the way I always look at it and the girls accept that challenge.”

Ellis said the key to the recent winning streak has been defense, but the Lady Vikes didn’t need it on Tuesday since Pant was untouchable and the bats were blistering hot.

Ridgeland (1-7, 0-1) only put one ball in play against Pant. Dakera Holmes hit a dribbler up the first base line that Kennadi Williams easily handled in the third inning. Pant struck out the other 14 batters she faced and finished with the first perfect game of her high school career.

“It feels amazing. I went through ups and downs at the beginning of this season but I’m finally starting to get back in the groove,” said Pant, who missed several games earlier this season because of a sprained ankle.

At the plate, the Lady Vikes scored at least four runs in all four innings they batted and finished with 16 hits. Pant was 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs, Anzley Keen was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs scored, and Mary Clell Allred was 2-for-3 with three RBIs.

Allred, KeKe McKay and Emily Muirhead each had a triple. McKay had two hits and scored three runs.

“We did a better job. We knew we were going to have to stay back a little bit and we’ve been talking about it a lot in practice. Even against better, faster pitchers we’ve been out on our front side,” Ellis said. “So that was a good opportunity for us tonight to understand how much we are out in front. After we went through the lineup one time we figured it out, which was good.”