BOONE – At the top, in the middle and even at the bottom, Boone has got the power to make opposing pitchers absolutely miserable.

And the ringleader of it all is Breanna Hunter.

Hunter went 4 for 5 with four doubles and a RBI, and the 12th-ranked Toreadors piled up 14 hits en route to a 9-4 victory over Webster City in a Class 4A Region 2 quarterfinal last night.

Boone (24-9) advances to Saturday’s regional semifinal against Newton (20-9), while WCHS (13-18) saw its season end.

Hunter was a thorn in the side of the Lynx in both meetings this season. In Boone’s two victories, she went 7 for 9 with six doubles, a home run and seven RBI. Two of her doubles crashed off the top of the fence and would have been no-doubt dingers at a field with a shorter fence.

“She’s a very good hitter and when you hit your spots she still puts the ball wherever she wants to,” WCHS head coach Jess Howard said of Hunter. “You just hope to keep it low and hope she grounds out.”

But the Toreadors were so much more than one stick. Eight players recorded at least one hit and three – Laura Anderson, Kennedy Hilsabeck and Ashley Furst – joined Hunter with multiple hits.

“They hit the ball one through nine,” Howard said.

Boone broke out right away by scoring two runs in each of its first three at bats to jump in front 6-0. Trying to be a little too accurate against the potent lineup, WCHS pitcher Gabbi Hoversten struggled with her control in the early innings; she walked two batters in the first inning and threw seven wild pitches in the contest.

“(Hoversten) did as much as she could to hold them at bay,” Howard said. “When they hit the ball you just have to hope the defense can make the plays.”

A Taylor Schnathorst RBI single to right in the third inning got WCHS on the scoreboard.

The Lynx added three more runs off Hunter, the Toreadors’ starting pitcher, in the fifth to make things interesting. Four consecutive singles by Hoversten, Allie Flaws, Schnathorst and Taylor McKinney pushed the runs across. Schnathorst’s bouncer up the middle plated one run and McKinney’s liner in the hole between short and third brought two more around to the dish.

“We had that good inning and the girls did a good job of making that run,” Howard said. “There’s no deficit that’s too big in softball.”

But Boone had the quick answer in the top of the sixth, as Furst hit a two-out, two-strike, two-RBI blooper into right to push the cushion to five runs.

WCHS touched Hunter for 10 hits, eight of them coming from the first four batters in the lineup.

Flaws capped her stellar season and career by going 3 for 4. Following a lead-off single to left in the first, she immediately took off for second and claimed her single-season school-record 52nd stolen base of the season. She passed Jenny (Flora) Vinzant, who stole 51 in both 2001 and 2002.

Flaws, who leads 4A in stolen bases, hit .390 on the season. She exits the Lynx stage with 163 stolen bases, trailing only Vinzant (168) on the all-time WCHS leaderboard.

“Allie’s been strong, she’s been healthy and you could tell she had confidence all season,” Howard said. “When you got her on base you more than likely put her on second and sometimes third. She was smart on the bases and up to bat.”

Schnathorst and McKinney smacked two hits each and clean-up hitter Cassidy Nerland added a fourth-inning single.