Gordon Lee softball team scores big at Camp Jordan
As one of the final tuneups before the stretch run begins in the GHSA softball season, this weekend’s SCORE International Tournament at Camp Jordan was a mixed bag for area teams.
Host Gordon Lee emerged as one of the big winners, going 5-0 to improve to 17-3. The Lady Trojans, nine-time state champions under coach Dana Mull, capped their weekend in East Ridge with a 5-4 win over another reigning state champion, Ringgold, on Anniston Hudson’s walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning Saturday.
“I think we grew a lot as a team this weekend,” Mull said. “We made mistakes at times, but I’m proud of how they bounced back from them. Ringgold is a great team, and it was a high-intensity game. We needed a game like that, and it was nice to come out on top.”
Hudson and Emma Langston (also the winning pitcher) each had two hits, with Jordan Dyer, Allie Farrow and Emma Minghini driving in one run apiece.
Ringgold’s Caroline Hemphill was 2-for-3 with three RBIs, and Riley Nayadley was 2-for-3 with a run scored.
Earlier in the day, Gordon Lee needed just four innings to defeat Haralson County 16-4, with three homers among the team’s 16 hits. Dyer, Hudson and Addison Sturdivant each went deep, with Dyer and Hudson driving in three runs each.
The Lady Trojans opened the tournament Friday with wins over St. Pius X, Cass and Tattnall Square Academy. Sturdivant had a homer and Ashlyn Schmidt went 3-for-3 with three runs in an 11-3 win over Pius, Minghini tossed a three-hitter to beat Cass 2-0, and Dyer had two hits (one a homer) and two RBIs in a 5-1 win over Tattnall.
Also at Camp Jordan:
› Ringgold finished the weekend 2-2, earning Saturday wins over Tattnall, 12-8, and Pius, 14-1, after falling to old rival Calhoun 5-1 on Friday despite Nayadley’s two hits and RBI. The Lady Tigers had 18 hits against Pius, with Jade Gainer going 4-for-4 with two homers and four RBIs, plus Nayadley driving in five and also going deep. They had 16 hits against Tattnall Square, four of them and four RBIs by Nayadley and three hits and four RBIs from Hemphill.
› Calhoun was led by Espee Reyes’s 4-for-4 performance, with Lyndi Rae Davis adding a pair of doubles and an RBI and Grace Crocker driving in two in the win over Ringgold. The Lady Yellow Jackets also defeated Villa Rica, 3-2 on Friday, and Tattnall Square, 7-3 on Saturday.
› Heritage lost twice Friday, 10-1 to Woodland-Bartow and 10-7 to Tattnall, a game in which Zoe Wright was 4-for-4 with three runs scored and Madeline Stone was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. The Generals rebounded Saturday to defeat Hebron Christian 10-2, with Carmen Gayler and Stone each getting three hits and combining for five RBIs, and Wright going 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Heritage later lost 12-10 to Cass despite Gayler’s tworun homer, dropping the team’s record to 15-4.
› Northwest Whitfield 3, Woodland 2: The Lady Bruins won their only game of the tournament Saturday as Kylie Hayes pitched a five-inning three-hitter with 11 strikeouts.
› Woodland 2, Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe 0: The Lady Warriors (10-6) lost their lone tournament game Saturday as Woodland’s Lainey
Baker struck out nine. LFO’s Haley Stahl allowed two earned runs and seven hits.
VOLLEYBALL
Baylor lost 3-2 to Signal Mountain on Friday and 3-0 to GPS on Saturday. Stat leaders for the Lady Red Raiders against Signal Mountain were Lilly Stewart (19 assists), Holland Moss and Nadia Sixto (seven kills each, Moss with three blocks) and Frances Bartley (23 digs); against GPS, the leaders were Stewart (14 assists), Sierra Herndon (seven kills, three blocks) and Daphne Chi (13 digs).
SOCCER
GPS improved to 10-0 with weekend wins over Stewarts Creek, 5-0, and Rockvale, 6-1. Senior midfielder Sydney Morris spearheaded the attack with seven assists. Kennedy Ball had a hat trick in Friday’s shutout and assisted three goals Saturday, Ashley Grant provided three goals over the weekend, and Sasha Carbone added two to go with an assist on a score by Nyla Blue for the Bruisers.
› Soddy-Daisy 5, Sale Creek 3: Maddy Mayo had a hat trick in the win for the Lady Trojans. Audrey Kidwell scored twice for Sale Creek.
GOLF
Baylor’s boys tied Montgomery Bell Academy with a four-player, 18-hole stroke total of 294 on Thursday Willowbrook in Manchester. McCallie finished third at 302, but Bennett McNabb had the low round with a 1-under-par 71. Baylor was led by Sheldon McKnight’s 72 to go with 73s from Brett Cooper and David Schneider-Jerez.
CROSS COUNTRY
Baylor freshman Mae Mae Powe’s personal-best 5k time of 18:47 was good for seventh Saturday at the Southern Showcase in Huntsville, Alabama. Sophomore Helen Webb (19:40) was 26th as the Lady Raiders finished ninth in the team standings.