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PLAINS – High school softball is getting to be a more important thing in Plains all the time.

Witness the spiffed-up playing facilities and the fact that the legendary voice of Plains sports, Randy Garrison himself, now has a platform from which to announce Trotter games from for proof.

By all measures, it is now easy to see that the Trotters have reached the big-time of PHS sports, even if Garrison's announcing platform is currently an old red Ford truck backed up to the backstop (a more permanent announcing station is reportedly in the works for Garrison in the future).

On an upward trajectory after several years of fielding very competitive teams, coach Michele Bangen and her Trotters gave the hometown fans more to cheer about Saturday in waltzing to a two-game sweep over the visiting Drummond Trojans, knocking off their Western B-C foes 16-4 and 24-3.

Bangen was able to go deep down her bench in both games, giving her entire roster of players plenty of playing time in the two games, which were both shortened to five innings by the 10-run rule.

"That was really nice being able to get all our players in like that," she said, "and that should help prepare us for the tough stretch coming up."

The tough stretch Bangen is talking about begins Thursday in Plains with a game against visiting Anaconda, continues with Manhattan Christian in Missoula Friday and ends up this week with a doubleheader against Deer Lodge in Plains Saturday.

The four games in three days doesn't faze Bangen or, she hopes, her Trotters.

"This weekend will be kind of like a tournament scenario with a lot of games," she said. "We look forward to us, it should help us prepare for the rest of the season."

There was never any doubt about the Trotters' superiority in the games with Drummond – the Plains-Hot Springs girls cruised to victory in both games.

Kassidy Kinzie pitched

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the win in the first game, scattering four hits while helping her own cause at the plate by knocking in three runs while rapping out three hits of her own.

Dakota Butcher led the P-HS offense with four runs batted in off of two base hits, and Natalee Deschamps, McKenzie Elliott, Danielle Graham, Emma Morgan and Kenzie Angle all added RBIs.

Butcher pitched the start of the second game before Kinzie came in to finish. The P-HS offense came alive in that game with an amazing total of 23 base hits.

Sage Jackson led the Trotter onslaught with four hits (including a double) and four runs batted in, Skylar Bergstrom was good for three hits (also including a double) and drove in two runs, and Morgan and Butcher also wound up with two RBIs.

The Trotters took control of that game early, racing out to 13-0 lead in the top of the first inning and never looking back.