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September 30, 2008

Anonymous The Meridian Star Tue Sep 30, 2008, 09:25 AM CDT

Choctaw Central sweeps doubleheader

from staff reports

Choctaw Central continued its red-hot pace Monday night when the Lady Warriors swept a doubleheader from Humphreys County in area slow-pitch softball action.

The Lady Warriors won the first game 17-1, then cruised 16-2 in the nightcap to improve to 18-4 on the season. Choctaw finished 9-1 and second to Louisville in the Division 4-3A race.

In Monday's first game, the Lady Warriors scored six times each in the second and third innings.

Mercedes Cotton was 3-for-3 with a homer, triple and single and Anissa Allen was also 3-for-3 for Choctaw. Kecia Bell, Alyssa Gibson, Ashland Wallace, Kiawa Wallace and Ashton Steve all had two hits.

Steve was also the winning pitcher.

In the second game, Cotton ripped a pair of over-the-fence home runs and finished 3-for-4 with a double as Choctaw cruised.

Jelesse Baughn and Anxissa Allen both went 4-for-4, while Gibson had three hits and Bell had two. The Lady Warriors scored at least two runs in all five innings of the rout-shortened affair.

Steve (18-4) was again the winning pitcher.

Choctaw Central takes on Philadelphia today.

— Rocky Higginbotham

Neshoba Central 5

Enterprise 3

The Lady Rockets squeezed out a win over the host Lady Bulldogs in a non-division matchup of two playoff-bound teams at Enterprise.

Neshoba Central scored two runs in the fourth and three in the seventh and out-hit Enterprise 14-10.

Sarah Breland was 3-for-3 and Laurel Burnett was 2-for-3 with a double to lead the Lady Rockets. Abby Joyner and Taylor Tucker also had two hits while Ty Buckley had an RBI triple.

Breland (12-7) was the winning pitcher for Neshoba, which takes on Choctaw Central Thursday.

Enterprise, which scored once each in the second, fourth and seventh frames, fell to 15-8. The Lady Bulldogs are scheduled to visit Meridian today.

— Rocky Higginbotham

West Lauderdale 15

Northeast Jones 0

The Lady Knights ran their record to 12-10 on the season with a thumping of Northeast Jones in Division 5-4A action Monday night in Collinsville.

Haleigh Moffett, Emily Pogue and Mallory Turner all collected three hits for West Lauderdale, while Ashley Adams and Julie Jones had two hits apiece.

Eighth-grader Lyndsie Fountain added a home run for West, while Pogue was the winning pitcher.

The Lady Knights entertain Clarkdale tonight.

— Rocky Higginbotham

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