Gallatin hosts Knox County tonight (Wednesday) in sectional softball
Oct 12, 2016 | Sports & Recreation |
Gallatin’s Lady Bulldogs pose with their Class 1, District 12 championship plaque following Saturday’s 5-1 victory over Green City in the district title game. Gallatin hosts Knox County today (Wednesday) in the sectional round. The winner advances to the state quarterfinal round on Saturday against either Salisbury or LaPlata. If Gallatin and LaPlata both win today, Saturday’s game will be in Gallatin. If Gallatin and Salisbury both advance, the Lady Bulldogs will travel to Salisbury. Saturday’s game time has not yet been set.
Gallatin’s softball girls are headed back to the Class 1 sectional round following weekend victories over Grundy County and Green City.
The Lady Bulldogs, 11-13, will host Knox County, 16-4, today at 5 p.m. in the sectional at GHS field. Knox County defeated Schuyler County, 2-1, and Scotland County, 2-0, to win District 11.
The only common opponent for Gallatin and Knox County is Milan. Gallatin won that game, 5-3. Knox County defeated Milan, 8-2.
Sami Boyd doubled to open Saturday’s 5-1 championship victory and scored on Aubrey Feiden’s sacrifice fly. Gallatin added two runs in the third inning when Feiden and Karley Salmon singled and Maelea Coulson’s grounder to third was misplayed into a two-run error.
Feiden singled sharply to center to open the bottom of the fifth. Coulson singled to left to drive in Feiden. Kelsey Maxwell reached safely on a fielder’s choice and raced home on Courtney Shubert’s double over the left fielder’s head. Hayley Michael walked and Ariel Harris laced a two-out line drive to left that only a back-handed catch against the line saved two runs.
Boyd surrendered six hits and Green City’s lone run in the top of the sixth inning, but pitched her way out of trouble in first, third and fifth innings.
The Lady Gophers stranded three base runners in the first inning and loaded the bases with one out in the third before Boyd registered a strikeout and Salmon made an unassisted, bases loaded put out at third base. Two singles and an error gave Green City runners at second and third in the fifth but Boyd induced a ground ball to end the threat.
Gallatin’s 4-1 win over Grundy County on Friday was a pitchers’ dual highlighted by the fact that none of the game’s five runs were earned.
Gallatin put one run on the board in the fourth inning. Maxwell was safe on an infield single and courtesy runner Addison Burns eventually scored on a wild pitch.
A single, error and sac fly tied the game at 1-1 in the fifth. Boyd was hit by a pitch to open Gallatin’s half of the fifth. Feiden’s sac bunt put her in scoring position. Coulson popped up near the Bulldog dugout but the ball dropped with three Grundy players nearby. On her second chance, Coulson hit a grounder to shortstop, booted for an error that allowed Boyd to score.
Gallatin’s two runs in the sixth came by way of a Harris walk, Courtney Smith rbi-triple and run-scoring error on Boyd’s grounder to shortstop.
Boyd gave up three hits and struck out seven. Grundy County’s run was unearned.
