Lady Pioneers hold on to softball crown

Published 11:42 pm Thursday, October 4, 2007

Emily Boyd and McKinley Poteet combined on a two-hitter with 15 strikeouts, Alice Ann Barber drove in two runs with a single and double and North Whitfield defeated Westside, 6-0, Thursday to capture its fourth consecutive postseason tournament championship.

The Lady Pioneers (12-0) won the last three titles in the old North Georgia Middle School Athletic League and the first in the new Whitfield County Middle School Athletic League.

“It’s been incredible,” North Whitfield coach Shane Pendley said. “I think we’ve only lost one game in those four years. Westside beat us during the regular season a couple of years ago. We’ve had some real good players here.”

Boyd worked the first six innings, giving up one hit while striking out 14. Poteet worked the seventh and gave up a hit and struck out one.

Westside’s Carley Fetzer and Lauren Stepp had the Lady Rockets’ hits, both doubles, in the fourth and seventh innings, respectively.

Keri Clayton added two hits and one RBI while Kateleen Whaley, Bayli Cruse and Kelsey Holt all drove in runs.

“These girls stay hungry and they’re classy girls,” Pendley said. “They behave and just play softball. We’ve been young the past two years, too, and we’ll have a good team coming back next season. It’s real easy to coach these girls.”

Varsity softball

— Ridgeland 8, Northwest Whitfield 1: Kendall Bruning scattered five hits and struck out 10 as the Lady Panthers won a non-region game in Rossville.

Taylor Staten went 2-for-4 for the Lady Bruins (13-12, 4-3) while Callie Thomas, Ashley Flood and Loren Shook all had a hit apiece.

Shook took the loss, giving up 10 hits and four walks while striking out two.

Ridgeland’s Bruning had hits and Courtney Hall three.

— Southeast 8, Murray County 0: Chelsea Krafft struck out 15 and yielded only two hits as the Lady Raiders (12-13, 3-4) took the victory.

Mallory Edgeman had two hits, scored twice and drove in a run for Southeast. Heather Mason added two hits. Brittany Brogdon had two RBIs on two sacrifice flies and scored a run. Ashley Strong added a two-run single and scored two runs.

Varsity CC

— The Northwest Whitfield boys won a meet at Baylor in Chattanooga with 111 points, while Dalton was third with 171.

Jonathan Lavelle led the Bruins with a 14th-place finish in 18 minutes, 12 seconds. Daniel Horseman was 17th in 18:17, Leighton Steadman 25th in 18:35, Kyle Keener 27th in 18:36, and Andrew Taylor 27th in 18:37.

Daniel Grass led Dalton’s runners with a fifth-place finish in 17:35 in the Chattanooga Cross Country League event.

Freddy Castillo was 13th in 18:09, Mitchell Snyder 35th in 18:53, Andrew Bruner 41st in 19:01 and Grant Snyder 77th in 19:58.

— Northwest’s girls finished fifth at the meet.

Sarah Boyd paced the Lady Bruins with a time of 22:33 in 16th place. Sydnee Bowman ran 22:54 for 23rd while Morgan Williams (51st) ran a 23:58, Jordi Cook (60th) ran 24:14 and Ashley Palmer (65th) finished in 24:31.

The Lady Cats’ top placer was Rocio Jacobo in 50th at 23:21. Carina Neito (68th) ran 24:41, Allison Delay (85th) 25:23, Reagan Fromm (88th) 25:27, and Marixa Ortiz (89th) 25:28.

JV football

— Southeast 6, Murray County 0: The Raiders’ Jeremy Bishop scored on a 3-yard run for the game’s only touchdown.

Trey Parris had two interceptions for Southeast (3-1).

MS football

Eighth grade

— Dalton 44, Bagley 0: Tre Beck had touchdown runs of 2 and 70 yards, returned a punt 65 yards for a score and caught an 18-yard TD pass from Tre Bonds as the Cougars (5-0) completed their fourth consecutive undefeated season, a winning streak of 27 games.

Bonds scored on a 21-yard run while Nick Urbain went in from 21 yards out and Camden Moore hit paydirt from the 5.

Caylor Summers, Stephen Jones, Seth Hartshorn and Scott Abernathy all had fumble recoveries for the Cougars, who posted their fourth shutout of the season in a game played at Harmon Field.

Dalton allowed just two touchdowns, both to Chattanooga’s Tyner, in their five games.

“I’m really proud of these guys,” Dalton coach John Patrick said. “We fought a lot of turmoil this year and it’s really nice to put up another undefeated season.”

— Westside 44, Gladden 6: Hunter Martin had touchdown runs of 45, 34 and 21 yards to lead the Rockets (3-2).

Justin Andrews scored on a 29-yard run, Brandon Davenport went in from 33 yards out and Brian Whitmire sneaked in from the 1 for a TD.

Matson Scott, Luke Hensley, Justin Andrews and

Garrett Edgerton had two-point conversion runs.

Cole Sumner, Hensley and Tyler Baker picked off passes and Sumner added a fumble recovery.

Jonathan Lara scored the Warriors’ TD and Chris Tucker was credited with 11 tackles.

Seventh grade

— Dalton 28, Bagley 14: Marvin Hill scored touchdowns on runs of 3 and 42 yards and added a pair of two-point conversion runs for the Cougars (4-1).

Dalton’s Cole Calfee intercepted a pass and returned it 65 yards for a score and Hunter Cleary contributed a 36-yard touchdown run.

Bagley trailed 20-14, but was driving in the fourth quarter when Calfee picked off the pass and raced to the end zone.

— Gladden 28, Westside 0: Deron Hill scored two touchdowns for the Warriors.

Michael Pelfrey caught a 50-yard pass from Brady Todd and Josh Cole scored a TD for Gladden.