Perfection.

It doesn’t happen very often.

But Lucy Fearday achieved pitching perfection Monday afternoon against Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City.

The St. Anthony hurler faced 21 batters and retired every single one of them. CHBC didn’t have a base runner in the game. Fearday didn’t allow a hit or a walk and struck out 12 in her 96-pitch performance.

Her teammates didn’t have a lot of hits, but took advantage of Fearday’s terrific pitching and four errors by CHBC to come away with a 9-0 win at home.

Fearday had at least one strike out in every inning. She struck out the side in the fourth and then ended the game in impressive fashion, striking out the final three batters of the game.

The Lady Bulldogs scored all the runs they needed in the opening inning. Cameron Rios led off with a base hit, stole second, stole third and scored on a throwing error by the catcher. Abbie Wernsing walked, Fearday was hit by a pitch and both runners eventually scored on a pair of passed balls.

SAHS added two runs in the second and then completed the scoring with a four-run fifth. Rios, again, started things with a base hit and got to second on an error. Wernsing followed with an RBI single and went to second on the throw home.

After a sacrifice bunt, Fearday lifted a sacrifice fly to bring in the third run. Sydney Kibler then singled, Maddie Kibler reached on an error and both later scored on another error.

St. Anthony improved to 9-6 on the season. The Lady Bulldogs are scheduled to travel to Flora today (Tuesday).