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Straughn Lady Tigers Softball
BASEBALL PLAYOFFS
All five County teams in the first round of the playoffs were sent
home after a rough weekend on the diamond. Red Level and
Straughn didn't make it to Saturday as both were knocked out after
two games. Defending Champ Leroy took care of the Tigers 10-0;
17-7 as Red Level tried to end the 2A title reign from the Bears.
The young Straughn squad faced Clarke County and also ran up against
a hot team igniting the Tigers for 31 runs in two games (13-3;
18-1).
Andalusia, Opp and Pleasant Home made it to Saturday and forced a
decisive game three, but no team made it out of the first round
matchups.
Jackson took care of the Bulldogs and 4A Elmore County travelled to
Opp and ended the Bobcats season. Pleasant Home saw their
season end for the second straight year in Dothan as 1A Private
School Providence Christian took care of the Eagles in game three.
Tigers JV - sweeps Geneva
Game 1: Straughn J.V. 2 Geneva J.V. 0
Game 2: Straughn J.V. 20 Geneva J.V. 1
Josh Dewrell, Nick Allen, and Luke Fussell combined for a
no-hitter on the mound in game one as the JV Tigers defeated the
Geneva Panthers 2-0.
The the second game of
the double header, Caleb Cochran picked
up the win and Chase Short got the save. Several players
connected for hits in the second game, but the biggest shot came
from Nick Allen.
Allen connected on
a 3-run homerun that opened the
floodgates.
The Straughn
Junior Varsity is 15 - 3 and finished 1st place in the Luverne
tournament earlier this month.
Lady
Bulldogs - Tournament Bracket
2A Tigers advance past 4A Bobcats
Softball Varsity Girls = Straughn 3 Opp 2
The 2008 softball season got underway last Friday afternoon for
the Opp (0-1) Lady Bobcats in a tournament being held in
Andalusia. The Lady Bobcats would get county rival Straughn for
their first game.
The first inning would see Straughn score first after a walk and
a double with two outs to make the score 1-0 in favor of the
Lady Tigers with the Lady Bobcats coming to bat.
Leadoff hitter Joi Rhymes walked and then was caught stealing on
the very next pitch to end any Bobcat threat in the first. The
Lady Tigers struck again in the second inning as the leadoff
batter was hit by a pitch and then a key double with two outs
scored another run to put Straughn up 2-0 and two.
Both teams got runners on base in the third but neither could
push a run across keeping the score 2-0 entering the fourth
inning. With two outs in the top of the fourth and a running on
second base a costly Bobcat error on a sure inning ending pop up
to the outfield drove another Lady Tiger runner across putting
Straughn up 3-0.
Opp would respond in the bottom of the fourth on a Sierra Thorn
RBI triple that drove in 2 runs cutting the Lady Tiger lead to
one run at 3-2. Straughn went quietly in the fifth as the Lady
Bobcats looked to even the game in the bottom of the fifth as
Joi Rhymes lead off the inning with an infield single but was
caught stealing for the second time in the game ending the Lady
Bobcat threat and Straughn got the next two Opp hitters out to
hold on for one point win 3-2.
Due to the time limits of the tournament only five innings
were played in the game. Sierra Thorn lead the Lady Bobcats at
the plate going 1 for 2 at the plate with a huge triple and 2
RBIs. Andrea Edwards and Katelyn Mikel each went 1 for 1 with a
hit and a walk. Sidney Jones went the distance for Opp on the
mound going 5 innings giving up 3 runs, only 1 of which was
earned, 4 hits, with only 1 walk, and 3 strikeouts.
CoCo" Tournament in Florala
Red Level welcomes Straughn to the Field
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Red Level may want to consider moving their home fields to
Florala after successful trips at the Wildcat diamond. The
2A Tigers overwhelmed Straughn in the first game of the "CoCo" -
Covington County tournament 7 to 0.
Red Level would score their 1st run in the bottom of the
3rd with Nathan Johns getting a lead off single,
Straughn would walk 3 straight batters to score Johns, before
Matthew Bond would hit a sac fly to deep
center to score the 2nd run of the inning, Straughn would walk
the next batter and then Tyler Patterson
hit a line drive to right center field to drive in 2 RBI’s.
R.L would hold a 4 to 0 lead after 3 innings and that is all the
Tigers would need, but Red Level added a run in the 4th with
Cale Nolen getting a lead off double, Nolen would score on a
Tyler Patterson hit for his 3rd RBI of the game giving R.L a 5
to 0 lead.
Red Level would score 2 more runs in the 5th with a lead off
walk a fielding error would follow and a Hit Batter would load
the bases.
Straughn would make a pitching Change and bring in Cole
Armstrong, Kyle Nolen would be the 1st batter up
and he would rip a single driving in 1 run, 2 more walks in the
inning would score another run.
Red Level held hold to a 7 to 0 lead
while playing error free defensively. Offensively Red level
would leave the
bases loaded in the 3rd, 4th and 5th innings.
Red Level was led at the plate by Cale Nolen going 1-1 with 3
BB, Kyle Nolen 1-3 1BB, Matthew Bond 1-1 1BB, Tyler Patterson
was 2-4, Nathan johns 1-4.
Cale Nolen was the winning pitcher going 7 innings giving up 0
runs, 12 K’O, scattering 3 Hits and 2BB and never had over 1
base runner in any inning.
Nick Allen would take the loss going 4 innings and would face 3
batters in the 5th, Allen would allow 7 Runs, 5 Hits, 9 BB, 5
K’0,
Cole Armstrong came in relief, went 2 IP, 0 runs, 1 Hit, 4 BB, 1
K’0
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