BY MATT HEINRICHS — SPORTS EDITOR

Okoboji’s softball team got out to a slow start and Manson-Northwest Webster took advantage during a nonconference contest played Thursday, June 16. The Cougars crushed the Pioneers 14-4 in Milford.

Manson-Northwest Webster built a 14-0 lead with four runs in the first, four more in the third and six in the fourth. Okoboji pushed four runs across in the bottom half of the fourth, but it wasn’t enough.