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GHS girls hold tight to GRC title share, start District 13 play
Gallatin’s Lady Bulldogs have faced few trials since embarking upon their current nine-game winning streak back on Sept. 7. All that ended Monday night when adversity came knocking at the door in the seventh inning of a pressure-packed game against Hamilton.
Gallatin led, 4-0, heading into the inning, but a combination of errors and miscues allowed the Lady Hornets to pull to within 4-3 before GHS catcher Maggie Strange threw out Hamilton’s Molly Schieber trying to swipe second after a strike three call on Eileen Greenwood.
With the win, the 12-2 (all) and 7-1 (conference) Lady Bulldogs earned only their second co-GRC title in school history. The 2006 Lady Bulldogs currently own the best winning percentage of any GHS team since softball was instituted in 1989.
Hamilton sent six batters to the plate in the final frame. Four reached base and three scored before the strike-em-out, throw-em-out double play.
The Lady Bulldogs took a 4-0 on Sept. 21, when rain suspended the game after the top of the second inning. Gallatin sent nine batters to plate in the opening frame and the first four, Strange, Alyssa Strein, Lacey Dixon and Shelby Chadwick, all scored.
The Lady Hornets could generate little offense when the game restarted Monday. Dixon faced a challenge only once, when Hamilton put runners on first and second with one out in the fourth.
Gallatin threatened to pad its lead in the third inning by loading the bases with two outs. Ashley Owens singled, Samantha Mott reached on an error and Strange walked, but Schieber escaped with a strikeout.
Dixon singled and Chadwick walked with one out in the sixth, but the Lady Bulldog duo could not advance past second and third. Gallatin went down quietly in the top of the seventh.
Gallatin beat Tri-County, the Class 1, District 13 #2 seed, 17-0, last Thursday. The Lady Bulldogs also set up Monday’s showdown for the title by beating Maysville, 4-0, last Wednesday behind Dixon’s one-hit pitching effort. Chadwick drove in Strange for the first salvo in the opening inning. Strein, Mott and Strange scored during Gallatin’s three-run fifth that put the game away.
Gallatin, the top seed in District 13, will face either #4 Stewartsville or #5 Breckenridge in a district semifinal game at 5:30 on Thursday. The winner earns a spot in the district championship game at 10 a.m. on Saturday. The District 13 winner will square off against the District 14 winner on Oct. 11 at Gentry Field in Princeton. Members of D14 are Cainsville, Gilman City, Grundy County, Mercer, Princeton and Newtown-Harris.
The winner at the sectional level will play in the quarterfinals on Saturday, Oct. 14, at Danner Park in Chillicothe.