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Tullahoma Sports .com

 

Lady Wildcats Open Tournament With 5-2 Win Over Shelbyville

by Mike McGee

 

Freshman Chelsea Jones struck out 14 in her first district tournament appearance Friday. The Lady Wildcats beat Shelbyville 5-2.

 

FAYETTEVILLE—The Tullahoma Lady Wildcats opened the District 8-AAA softball tournament Friday with a 5-2 win over Shelbyville behind a 14-strike out performance from freshman Chelsea Jones.

The win sets up a game against Lincoln County Saturday at 1 p.m. on Lincoln County’s home field where entire tournament is being played. Columbia, an 11-1 victor over Franklin County Friday, plays Coffee County at 3 p.m.

The Lady Cats had a good day at the plate Friday, starting in the first inning when they plated two runs. Jessica Young started the two-out rally with a single to right, and Amanda Duke followed with a line-drive double to left that drove Young home. Renee Kimbro then lined a shot down the right-field line to drive Duke home and stake Jones to a 2-0 lead.

Shelbyville battled back for a run in the bottom of the first on Samantha Dye’s two-out double, but the Lady Cats came right back with two more in the second inning.

Freshman catcher Erica Duke started the inning by reaching on an error. Senior Casey Carr followed with a sharp single to left, then both she and Duke moved up a base on a wild pitch. Young then hit a ball hard up the middle that the second baseman could only knock down while moving to her right, and both runs scored.

The Eaglettes got one run back in the bottom of the third on two errors, but that would be it. Jones got more dominant as the game progressed, striking out nine batters over the final four innings.

Senior Jessica Young delivered a pair of key hits in her team's 5-2 win Friday.

 

Her teammates, meanwhile, staked her to another insurance run in the sixth when Jessica Boehm ripped a single to left and moved to second on Amy Beasley’s perfect sacrifice bunt. Boehm reached third on an error and scored on Erica Duke’s single to right. Carr then singled up the middle, but the Eaglettes’ own fine freshman pitcher, Samantha Dye, got out of the inning when third baseman Abby Foster fielded a grounder, stepped on third and fired across the diamond for the double play at first.

Jones struck out two and got a popup to the catcher to finish things off in the seventh. She allowed just three hits, none after the third inning.

The Lady Cats banged out nine hits, including two each from Carr, Young and Boehm. Amanda Duke and Boehm each had doubles.

“They did well,” coach David Cardwell said of his team’s effort. “Chelsea (Jones) did a good job, and we swung the bats like we know how to do.”

 

Great article Mike thumb

[gomidstate]

Saturday

 

Lincoln over Tullahoma 5-0

 

Coffee over Columbia 3-2

 

Monday

 

Tullahoma vs Franklin

 

Shelbyville vs Columbia

Edited May 8, 2005 by gomidstate

[ladyfalcon05]

Congrats to the lady falcons on their 5-0 win over tullohoma! Good luck the rest of the tournament! Good luck also to the rest of the teams on Monday and Tuesday! Some big games are about to be played! GIT R DUN LC!

[chs4life]

Whitney Price with 2 RBI for Coffee Co. in the win over Columbia. Good Luck Tuesday.