Lady Eagles Take Care Of Dublin
Montgomery County High School's softball team picked up a win last Tuesday over Dublin, but lost a double header to Wilcox County on Monday of this week as they wrapped up their regular season.
MCHS vs. Dublin
MCHS got on the board early. With Jade Kight on base Marley Bell hit an inside-thepark home run to put the Eagles on top 2-0. The Eagles continued to pound out hits with two outs. Hits by McKyla Bell and Zakhia Lawhorne put runners at the corners. Madelyn Cartwright and Tabatha Bailey walked to bring in another run. A passed ball made it 4-0, and then an error on a ball hit by Kayrah Harris put the Eagles up 6-0. Katie Garrett hit a double for a 6-0 lead and Jabrayla Coglin reached on a bunt. She stole second and third. Kight walked and then a base clearing hit by Bell hit a double and an error allowed her to come all the way around to score. That made the score 9-0. Two more runs scored for an 11-0 lead and then hits by Lawhorne and Cartwright made it 13-0 before Dublin finally got the third out of the inning. The Eagles scored six more runs in the second inning. Lawhorne reached base, and an error on a ball hit by Garrett to put MCHS up 14-0. Kight bunted in the run for a 15-0 lead. Bell hit another ball into the outfield that was misplayed, and she again rounded the bases for a 17-0 lead. MCHS scored two more runs and then held in the top of the third inning to take the win, 19-0 over Dublin.
MCHS vs. Wilcox Game 1
Things didn't go as well on Monday of this week as MCHS lost two games to Wilcox County. In the first game Wilcox picked up two runs in the first inning and added another in the second for a 3-0 lead. MCHS scored one in the bottom of the third inning to close the lead to 3-1, but Wilcox answered in the top of the fourth inning making the score 4-1.
Wixcox scored four runs in the sixth inning to push their lead to 8-1 and added seven more in the seventh inning for a 15-1 lead. The Eagles did manage to score four runs in the bottom of the final inning, but fell 15-5.
Game 2
In the second game MCHS got on the board first with two runs in the first inning. Wilcox tied the game in the second, but blew it open in the fourth inning with 14 runs to jump ahead 16-2.
MCHS managed a run in the bottom of the fourth, but Wilcox won the game by the run rule, 16-3. That ended the regular season for the Eagles with a 4-10-1 overall record, and they were 3-10 in Region play.
