A highly anticipated matchup between two ranked teams Wednesday night in Adel didn’t live up to its billing as the No. 6 Carlisle Wildcats ran away with a 7-1 victory over the No. 8 ADM Tigers.

ADM (8-2, 5-1 RRC) struggled in all facets of the game, committing three errors while managing just four hits against Carlisle junior starter Gabby Schnathorst, who struck out 11.

The Wildcats (14-1, 5-0 RRC) leapfrogged the Tigers for first place in the conference and won their 14th straight game thanks to an offense that struck early and often and took advantage of ADM’s sloppy play. Carlisle took a 1-0 lead in the first on an RBI ground out by Abby Davis, and the Tigers tied it up in the bottom half on Molly Jacobsen’s RBI single.

Schnathorst (12-1) started to dominate from there, striking out the side in both the second and third. She went six innings, surrendering an unearned run while walking just one.

Carlisle re-took the lead in the third when Taylor Kooker lead off with a double, advanced to third on a wild pitch and later scored on a passed ball. The Wildcats then pushed across three runs in the fourth on run-scoring hits from Mackenzie Lose and Kooker and two more in the fifth on an RBI single by Courtney Joiner and run-scoring double by Agatha Beier.

Jacobsen (8-2) tossed seven innings, surrendering seven runs (six earned) on eight hits with seven strikeouts and no walks.

ADM heads to Dallas-Center Grimes Thursday night for yet another game against a ranked opponent, the No. 3 Fillies, at 7:30 p.m.