Winning ways continue for Gordon Lee as post-season approaches
The Gordon Lee Lady Trojans picked up their 20th win of the season last Wednesday after routing Mt. Zion, 12-0, in a game played in Carroll County.
Ashlyn Schmidt had a big game with four hits in five atbats. She scored twice and knocked in four runs. Emma Minghini had three hits and drove in three runs. Addison Sturdivant had two hits and scored four times. Sidney Gasaway was 2 for 3 with an RBI. Emma Phillips drove in one run and Anniston Hudson had a double.
Emma Langston pitched all seven innings. She gave up just five hits and one walk, finishing with 11 strikeouts. She also helped herself at the plate with a solo home run.
Gordon Lee 18, Drew Charter 0
The Navy-and-White scored 15 times in the top of the first inning, including a grand slam by Jordan Dyer, as they rolled to an 18-0 road victory on Thursday.
Pitcher Sydney Garrett was the other story of the day as the freshman struck out six batters in a three-inning perfect game.
Minghini had two hits, including a triple, and finished with one RBI. Schmidt and Hudson each had two hits with two RBIs. Langston had a double and knocked in two runs. Gasaway had two RBIs, Ava Brown doubled and knocked in a run, while Phillips, Ryleigh Ledford, Kaitlyn Wagoner and Madison Farrow all had one RBI apiece.
Gordon Lee 4, Bowdon 0
The Gordon Lee Lady Trojans managed just six hits on Friday, but parlayed them into four runs as they moved to 9-0 in Region 6-A play with a shutout victory at home against Bowdon.
Minghini drove in Sturdivant
with an RBI-single in the bottom of the first inning and Langston came through with a big two-out, two-run single in the third. Sturdivant would add an RBI-single in the fourth as she plated Gasaway with what would be the Lady Trojans’ final run of the day.
Minghini started the game in the circle. She gave up one
hit and struck out three batters, but issued four walks and was replaced by Langston with two outs in the second inning.
Langston would get final strikeout of the inning to leave the bases loaded and she went on to finish the night with 10 strikeouts, including a punch-out of the side in the third inning. She walked two batters and gave up just two hits in 5.1 innings of relief. She was also credited with the victory.
Dyer went 2 for 3 for Gordon Lee, while Schmidt had a hit and scored a run.