MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Baylor rallied for nine runs in the top of the sixth inning Thursday and defeated rival GPS 11-1 in six innings in the winners-bracket final of the TSSAA Division II-AA state softball tournament.
Silverdale Baptist outlasted Forrest 15-13 in 10 innings today and continues on through the Class A losers bracket in the Lady Seahawks' first high school softball state-tournament appearance in the program's seven-year history.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Soddy-Daisy right-hander Kelsey Nunley continued Wednesday the pitching mission she's been on throughout her senior season, but as always she needs at least a little offense.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Grace Academy advanced in the losers bracket of the Class A state high school softball tournament with a 6-2 victory over University School of Johnson City.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Soddy-Daisy defeated Munford 10-0 in six innings Wednesday and now advances to the winners-bracket final in the Class AAA high school softball tournament.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Baylor defeated Briarcrest 10-0 in five innings Wednesday in its opening game in the TSSAA Division II-AA state softball tournament.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — If East Hamilton in Class AA or Grace Academy or Silverdale Baptist in Class A is going to win a TSSAA state softball championship, it will have to come all the way through their losers bracket.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- GPS sophomore Madi Stanley pitched in the TSSAA state softball tournament for the first time. And she didn't know she was going to be pitching until not long before the game started.
Ooltewah High School Principal Mark Bean was far from his office the day he came up with his school’s slogan.
Many high school softball teams are fortunate if they have enough power hitters to fill the Nos. 3 through 5 spots in the batting order. In Baylor's case, the heart of its order extends through No. 7.
If Baylor softball coach Kelli Smith was concerned Friday about the mental focus of her softball players, who hadn't played since May 8, they put at her at ease by getting three consecutive outs against Harpeth Hall and the
There was "somewhat" of a celebration among his players after their game Friday, about what Soddy-Daisy softball coach Clifford Kirk figured.
It was all in the elevation, so said William DeBarge.
GPS going three up, three down in the first inning Thursday wasn't a good indication of things to come. The Bruisers' 10-run second inning was more like it.
Not only were runs hard to come by in Wednesday's Region 3-AAA high school softball championship game at Soddy-Daisy, baserunners were hard to come by.
The single was mightier than the home run Tuesday, at least in the late stages of the Region 3-AA high school softball semifinal at East Hamilton.
Whitwell didn't mean for Kathleen Sledge's tiebreaking, two-run triple in the sixth inning of Tuesday's Region 3-A high school softball semifinal to serve as a wake-up call for host Grace Academy, but that's what happened.
MANCHESTER, Tenn. — Anna Spellings' bunt and blast were integral parts of Coffee County's offense in Monday's Region 3-AAA high school softball semifinal, and they were enough for pitcher Brianna Jones.
BENTON, Tenn. -- Bill Triplett had been a high school baseball coach for 17 seasons, the last eight at Polk County. But after last school year he decided to resign from his coaching position so he could watch more as his daughter, Lydia, played softball.
East Hamilton defeated East Ridge 8-4 on Thursday in the championship game of the District 6-AA high school softball tournament at Warner Park.
Grace Academy has won the last six District 5-A regular-season high school softball championships and had five district-tournament titles to go with them coming into Thursday's game against Silverdale Baptist Academy.
The question surrounding Tuesday's Division II-AA East/Region season finale for the Baylor and GPS softball teams wasn't "How many?" It was "How far?"
The softball teams at Walker Valley and Ooltewah appear to be so evenly matched the last couple of seasons, they could've played 25 times and odds are the series would end 13-12.
Ooltewah's Kerri Catchings suffered a cruel twist of irony in Monday's winners-bracket final in the District 5-AAA high school softball tournament at Soddy-Daisy.
As far as playing small ball goes, Silverdale Baptist Academy played about as small as possible in Monday's District 5-A high school softball tournament game against Arts & Sciences at Warner Park.
DUNLAP, Tenn. -- Sequatchie County got out of a bases-loaded, one-out situation in a tie game in the top of the fifth inning Saturday in the winners-bracket final of the District 7-AA high school softball tournament.
Ooltewah's offense was both opportunistic and capitalistic in Saturday's winners-bracket game against Walker Valley in the District 5-AAA high school softball tournament at Soddy-Daisy.
This time last spring, Walker Valley’s Lady Mustangs entered the District 5-AAA high school softball tournament seeded second and feeling good about their chances of a prolonged postseason run.
Boyd-Buchanan’s high school softball program has had some sustained runs of success in the past. Now the current Lady Bucs hope they’re on the verge of starting another.
Brook Womack's stolen base on the second pitch of Monday's District 6-AA high school softball game at East Hamilton was equally as important to Central's message as her single on the first pitch.
Riverdale's softball team made the 100-mile trip eastward from Murfreesboro on Sunday to play at Soddy-Daisy. Then about halfway through the game, things went south for the Lady Warriors in a hurry.
It's a good bet that anyone who has seen Riverdale High School's Rachel Albritton pitch softball in the last couple of years would be surprised to know she was once cut from a team.
Arts & Sciences overcame several errors in its District 5-A high school softball game Thursday at Grace Academy -- just not enough of them.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Apparently tired of seeing Ooltewah's defenders make sparkling plays, Walker Valley's Hallie Davis hit a ball in the bottom of the ninth inning that none of them could reach.
Soddy-Daisy gets a couple runs, turns things over to pitcher Kelsey Nunley, comes away with a victory over ... (insert opponent here).
Arts & Sciences had given up 26 runs the first two times it played Baylor this high school softball season. But on Friday in the pool-play opener for both teams in Ooltewah's Lady Owls Choo Choo Classic at The Summit of Softball Complex, the Lady Patriots gave up a lot less than that.
There may not be a more potent offense in the TSSAA in 2012 than that of Baylor's Lady Red Raiders. There isn't much they can't do, and there isn't much they didn't do Thursday.
As the daughter of a coach, 17-year-old Katelyn Bowen already has lived in eight towns in four states. She could be living in Florida right now, which to many teenagers would be ideal, but there's one main reason why she isn't.
With the way his ace has been throwing this spring, Soddy-Daisy softball coach Clifford Kirk thought putting up an early run against Seymour in the Gold championship game of the 22nd Lady Trojan Invitational might put the Lady Eagles in a pinch.
Pitchers' duel or slugfest. GPS showed at least on Friday it could win either way. The Bruisers won both of their opening pool-play games in the 22nd Lady Trojan Invitational softball tournament, which was delayed getting started by four hours where they played, at Soddy-Daisy High School, because of overnight rain.
No leading off; no reading a pitcher's pickoff move; no leaving the base until the ball leaves the pitcher's hand. All these restrictions, yet nothing seems to discourage the gifted softball baserunner from trying to steal.
Giving up four runs in the top half of an extra inning doesn’t seem like any kind of recipe for success, but it was for Obion County Central’s softball team Thursday.
The shot that left fielder Layne Rainey made a running catch on in the seventh inning that saved two runs from scoring wasn't indicative of the way Marshall hit the ball most of Wednesday's softball game at Jim Frost Stadium. The popfly she made a diving catch on and saved a run the inning before was more like it.
What Arts & Sciences' Kiara Suttles did offensively in the fifth inning of Thursday's District 5-A high school softball game against Silverdale Baptist Academy made what she did defensively in the seventh inning momentous.
BENTON, Tenn. — Meigs County's Morgan Boggess must've wanted things done right in Tuesday's District 5-AA high school softball opener against Polk County, because she did it herself.
The Baylor softball team's motto this year is "State championship on the field, fighting for Moore off the field." But the Lady Red Raiders will be "fighting for Moore" at their field Thursday.
Chelsi Roark, a Sale Creek team captain and all-state selection, recently signed a volleyball scholarship with Bryan College. She helped the Class A Lady Panthers win a school-record 49 victories and the District 6-A and Region 3 titles on the way to the program's first state tournament, where they finished third.
Kiwon Toney may have been a bit of a slow starter in his bout Saturday in the 76th Chattanooga Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament, but the hard, straight left hand the southpaw landed shortly before the final bell punctuated a strong finish that started a round earlier.
South Pittsburg coaches Vic Grider and Danny Wilson have been spotted at practices lately, and no one was wearing shoulder pads, pushing around a sled or doing Oklahoma drills.
Ooltewah High School softball pitcher Taylor Baird apparently followed the advice offered by Lady Owls coach Norma Nelson in the fifth inning Tuesday. And apparently it made no difference to Soddy-Daisy's Savannah Moore.
