Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Fastpitch Softball Done - On to Basketball

The 2011 softball season is over.  Over the weekend Monique traveled to Birmingham as a 9th grader with the Red Bay Lady Tigers fastpitch softball team to compete in the Regional Championships.  On Friday they played two games and won both decisively, 11-1 and 8-1.  Neek played right field and had a number of good catches and batted 1 for 4 at bats, no strikouts but had a couple of line drives that got her thrown out at first.  She had an RBI, scoring Emily Cox off of a double.

Saturday the Lady Tigers lost two close games which ended their season.  This bunch of girls have some tremendous talent and many of them are headed to play college ball.  Emily Cox and Whitney Sharp have already committed to schools in Alabama.  We wish them the absolute best and know they are going to be a great asset to their respective teams.

The highlight of the JV and Varsity seasons for us was Monique's pitching 342 pitches during the County JV Tournament.  Of those, 234 were strikes (69%) and 108 were balls (31%).   We are proud that she hung in there so long.  Then during the varsity area tournament she hit at least two triples and had great at-bats throughout the tournament, one at bat producing a drive that hit the center field fence.  Another couple of feet and it would have been outta there.  Great job Neek!

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