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WEST: Lady
Rebels unable
Maryville softball
to keep up crushes Catholic
FROM 1B BY MITCHELL THOMAS DISTRICT 4-AAA SOFTBALL
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perfect. The Lady Moun- MARYVILLE 11,
taineers scored 12 runs — Maryville softball’s bats Catholic 1, 6 inns.
six in both the second and got hot, run ruling the
third inning — on nine Knoxville Catholic Irish the Rebels a 4-0 lead after
hits and four West errors. 11-1 in six innings at John one inning.
Morgan Gardner start- Sevier Elementary School Maryville’s Hadley York
ed the onslaught in the Monday evening. led off the bottom of the
second inning, when the “Girls were putting the second inning with a single,
Heritage senior busted bat on the ball, got sev- and later scored along with
her first home run over eral hits back to back,” Richardson on Campbell
the left-field wall to score Maryville coach David White’s two RBI double.
Hailey Berglof, who was Allen told The Daily Times. Pitts brought White home
walked. Geary was walked “The last few days playing, with a sacrifice fly to right
in the next at-bat, and then what we lacked is stringing field, extending the Lady
Caycee Braden reached hits together.” Rebel lead to 6-0.
on an error. An Aubrey Maryville’s bats weren’t A Knox Catholic RBI sin-
Lonas RBI-ground out the only thing working well gle from Katie Perry scored
plated Geary followed by Monday night, as Kasey Laura Cunningham for its
another error that brought Monday pitched a three- only run in the top of the
Braden home and put Jay- hit complete game. Monday third inning.
ley Frazier on base. Gracie struck out four and walked The Lady Rebels
Burns’ triple scored Fra- none, allowing four hits and answered with a run of
zier, and a Courtney Deck only one earned run. their own after Monday
sacrifice fly brought Burns “My changeup was work- helped herself with a single
home for a 6-0 lead. ing good, my defense was up the middle, later scoring
“ We p l a y e d g o o d doing good for me. I had to on a Catholic error.
defense and we hit well,” thank them a lot for that,” In the bottom of the
Sherman said. Monday said. “I just got- fourth, Pitts, Hamby and
“We haven’t been hit- ta keep working and keep Johnson strung together
ting well and seen better doing what I can.” three straight doubles.
pitching. We’ve just been “Good changeups Hamby and Johnson were
getting by. It was a good and good movement,” credited with RBI’s. Riley
chance to get some good SCOTT KELLER | THE DAILY TIMES Maryville catcher Lauren Colligan then chased home
swings on the ball. MARYVILLE’S MICHAEL STEVERSON (13) slides in safe at second ahead of the throw to Jerry Ham- “Lo” Hamby said about Johnson with an RBI sin-
“I was proud of Morgan mons (1) with an RBI double against Farragut Monday night at Coulter’s Grove. Monday’s pitching per- gle of her own, pushing the
Gardner. She’s had two formance through all six score to 10-1.

SAIL: Maryville tallied seven hits, four walks

‘We played good
defense and FROM 1B
we hit well.’ bases with one out in the
bottom of the third, but
Jeff Sherman were unable to push across
Heritage softball head coach a run. They did the same
in the fifth and again came
at-bats before tonight, away with a zero to show
maybe three, so for her for it.
to come out and hit like Maryville tallied seven
she did tonight, is good.” hits — one less than Farra-
Gardner started a four- gut — and drew four walks,
hit, six-run third inning but only managed the one
with a single as all six run and stranded nine on
runs scored before the base.
Lady Rebels recorded an “They’re a good team.
out with Neffot Tel in the They pitch it really well,”
circle. Tel’s night came to Sullivan said. “I think the
an end after she walked guy they threw tonight is
her fifth batter with two their No. 1 guy, to me. I
outs. Sierra Lloyd relieved don’t think they believe
Tel as she threw one pitch that, but to me he’s their
and got Tiffany Kessock to No. 1 guy. And they made
ground out, but not before the plays on defense they
MARYVILLE’S WILL ORREN (4) tries to step around the tag by
Farragut third baseman Parker Noland (9) but is called out in
Monday’s game at Coulter’s Grove.
out. Steverson moved up to
innings.
Hamby also contributed
to the offense with an RBI
triple in the first and an RBI
double in the fourth inning.
“Inside screwballs,” Ham-
by said is what she saw at
the plate on both of her
extra-base hits.
“Every inning we were
giving ourselves a chance
at the plate,” Allen said.
“Defensively, Kasey did a
great job. I don’t think they
got any lead-off hits. We did
a good job of keeping the
lead-off runner off and that
was key.”
Maryville’s Brooklin
Richardson started things
in the first with a lead-off
double, and Kendal Pitts
swapped places with Rich-
ardson with an RBI dou-
ble. Hamby’s RBI triple
and Saylor Johnson’s RBI
single followed and gave
like to be really good right
Monday’s pitching perfor-
mance continued, only fac-
ing eight batters in the last
two frames and not allow-
ing a runner past second
base. After pinch hitter Eva
Fortenberry and Alexis
Spicer led off the bottom of
the sixth with back-to-back
singles for Maryville, and
Colligan scored Fortenber-
ry to end the game at 11-1.
“We just gotta keep show-
ing up and playing,” Allen
said.
“We got Farragut tomor-
row and Heritage on Thurs-
day, so it’s a big week as far
as district games.”
MARYVILLE LADY REBELS 11, KNOX
CATHOLIC LADY IRISH 1, 6 INNINGS
KCHS 001 000 –1 4 1
MHS 331 301 –11 16 0
WP: Kasey Monday LP: Brianna Costello
2B: Brooklin Richardson (2), Kendal Pitts
(2), Lauren Hamby, Saylor Johnson, Emma
Schaad
3B: Lauren Hamby

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Rebels. get our approach better. the threat. game. We’ve got 26 more
Orren settled in and
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KNOX WEST LADY REBELS 0, 4 INNINGS
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WP: Ashleigh Geary. LP: Neffot Tel.
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