Ringgold softball team picks up three more 6-AAA victories
Junior pitcher Taylor Layne allowed just three hits in seven innings and she and the Lady Tigers outdueled LFO senior ace Haley Stahl for a 1-0 Region 6-AAA victory last Monday at Hazel Brown Field.
Layne walked three batters and struck out five in the win, while 54 of her 88 pitches went for strikes.
The lone run of the game came after Ava Raby was hit by a pitch to begin the bottom of the second inning. Autumn Green, into the game to run for Raby, stole second and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Caroline Hemphill. Alyissa Sue then hit a short infield single that allowed the speedy Green to race home with what turned out to be the game-winner.
Layne had a key strikeout to end a threat in the fourth and she helped turn an inning-ending double play in the fifth. LFO put a runner on first to lead off the seventh, but a 5-63 double play would help the Lady Tigers escape with the win.
Sue and Amber Gainer had the only hits of the day for the Lady Tigers, both singles.
Ringgold 12, LaFayette 4
Trailing 3-1 going into the top of the third inning, the Lady Tigers exploded for nine runs in the frame and went on a region victory in south Walker County last Tuesday.
Ringgold collected 11 hits on the evening, including a 3 for 4 performance by Baileigh Pitts, who had a pair of doubles and two RBIs. Gainer went 2 for 3 with two RBIs and three runs scored. Maddy Bacon also had two hits, including a double, and drove in one run.
Hannah Scott doubled in two runs in the victory, while Raby, Hemphill, Riley Nayadley, Jade Gainer and Addi Broome all had one RBI each.
Sue pitched the first 4.1 innings. She gave up four earned runs on 10 hits and five walks with one strikeout in the victory. Bacon allowed just one hit in 2.2 innings of relief.
Ringgold 14, Murray County 0
Bacon gave up five walks, but just one hit in four innings as the Lady Tigers blasted Murray County in a 6-AAA contest in Chatsworth on Thursday to complete a 3-0 week. Bacon finished the game with one strikeout as she picked up the win.
Hemphill jump-started the offense with a two-run single in the first inning, while Raby launched a grand slam in the top of the second to put the game out of reach.
Sue and Nayadley had two hits each. Green knocked in two runs, while Sue, Nayadley, Scott, Broome and Jade Gainer all had one RBI for Ringgold (6-3, 5-1).