OXFORD – Geneva started with two wins, but lost a chance at reaching the finals unbeaten, while Dale County avoided elimination with a third-game win during the Class 4A State Tournament at Oxford’s Choccolocco Park Thursday.
Both teams remain alive, but have to navigate the losers bracket to make the finals. Dale County , which opened with an 11-6 win over American Christian before a 10-0 loss to Curry and a 4-3 win over Northside, plays an elimination game Friday at 9 a.m. against North Jackson.
Already up 1-0, Curry scored six runs in the third inning off only three hits with two errors plus some misjudgment on fly balls by Geneva helping the cause. Geneva, which also scored three in the first and two in the second, earned 11 hits, including three doubles. Madison Johnson was 3-for-3 with two runs batted in. Makaley Boswell had two hits, one a double, and drove in two runs and Erin Curry had two hits, one a double, with one RBI. Emily Lamb added a double and two RBI and Rayanna Ausley chipped in a single and RBI.Katlyn Conner picked up the win in relief, working 4 2/3 innings.
Northside put the lead-off runner on base in the seventh with a walk, but Boswell got two ground outs and a strikeout to preserve Geneva’s lead.Katlyn Conner was the winning pitcher, working 5 1/3 innings before getting relief help from Boswell. Conner struck out seven and gave up just three hits and three runs. Boswell earned a save in pitching the last 1 2/3 innings and recording two strikeouts. She didn’t give up a hit or run and had one walk.
Shayleigh Whitman was the winning pitcher. She went all seven innings, giving up nine hits, but limiting the damage to just three runs, only one earned. She had just one strikeout.
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