Dothan in Ponytails title game | High-school

Dothan innovative to the Ponytails (ages 12-underneath) championship activity slated for Tuesday by defeating Montgomery Gray 17-5 and then earned a bye into the championship sport to facial area the winner of the Wicksburg vs. Greenville recreation Tuesday morning, which begins at 10 a.m. The winner faces Dothan shortly soon after in the finals.

Individuals a few groups every single have just one reduction, but Dothan gets the computerized bye into the title activity owing to obtaining performed the most games of the three. Dothan has performed five game titles, while Wicksburg and Greenville have each and every performed four.

In the SweeTees (6-underneath), Dothan defeated Montgomery American 13-6 in an elimination game Monday just before dropping to Troy 23-12 in the championship.

Troy groups also took condition championship wins in the Belles (15-underneath) and Angels (10-underneath) divisions. Troy conquer Greenville 19-1 to assert the Belles championship and the Troy entry in the Angels defeated Montgomery Gray 15-14. In the other state championship video game Monday, Montgomery Grey defeated Montgomery American 11-4 to get the Darlings (8-below) crown.

The lone condition championship match remaining is the Ponytails on Tuesday.

The Wicksburg-Greenville activity will be a rematch. Wicksburg entered Monday’s game versus Greenville as the only unbeaten workforce in the event, but Greenville took a 10-8 earn to keep alive and develop the 3-team tie. Dothan defeated Greenville 18-17 to open the tournament, but dropped its 1st match to Wicksburg 6-2 on Sunday. The championship video game is slated to start off shortly right after the elimination game.

In Dothan’s big gain Monday in excess of Montgomery Grey to get paid its way into the championship game, the group received out to a 9- direct in the major of the initially inning.

“That’s what we preach,” Dothan head mentor Brian Lindsey reported. “Any time we’re website visitors, we want to come out and get tension off our pitchers by scoring four, five, 6, 7 operates and we came out of the gate and established the tone.”

Lindsey was very pleased of how his crew responded immediately after losing to Wicksburg the evening before.

“Coming off our first defeat, we just explained to the women that recreation was above with and we couldn’t modify what took place in the past and we nevertheless controlled our have future,” Lindsey reported. “They came out organized and took care of business.”

Lindsey believes Dothan is in great form pitching-intelligent heading into the finale, which is scheduled to start off shortly following the elimination activity.

“We have 4 pitchers and they have all carried out what we required them to do,” Lindsey mentioned. “We have two aces and they have a great deal of innings left, so we like the way we sit for just one or two game titles.”

Lindsey claimed the two primary starting pitchers are Lanie Brooks Lindsey and Allie Potter, but Campbell Mendheim and Mary Van Rope are also sturdy in the circle.

Because Dothan was an automated host workforce with the match staying in town, the crew did not have to go as a result of district competitiveness. Lindsey thinks that considerably put the team at a drawback in coming jointly as a workforce. Even so, he reported the workforce has bonded properly.

“Every lady from the best to the bottom has been very little but group initially and has had great attitudes,” Lindsey mentioned. “I couldn’t talk to for 12 improved players.”

Wicksburg bought in an early hole towards Greenville, slipping guiding 9-1 in the 3rd inning just before rallying to make it a shut sport.

“We started out a minimal, I would say, sluggish on the bats,” Wicksburg coach Tracy Driskell claimed. “Then we changed out some pitching and the pitching began shutting down their offense, and then our bats received hot.”

Driskell stated the workforce will be completely ready to play Tuesday in hopes of having revenge versus Greenville and earning a shot at the title in opposition to Dothan.

“Our state of mind is we play for the Lord and we’re likely to contend,” Driskell mentioned.

In the SweeTees championship recreation, Dothan scored two operates in the top of the initial inning, but Troy responded with six in the bottom fifty percent and hardly ever looked back again.

Right after keeping Dothan scoreless in the second, Troy tacked on 7 additional runs to guide 13-2. Dothan fought again with seven runs in the 3rd to minimize the deficit to 13-9, but Troy answered it with seven in the base of the inning to lead 20-9 en route to the eventual 23-12 get.

“We ordinarily hit the ball actually very well … that is what we function on a lot,” Troy mentor Anthony Dixon mentioned.

However, Dixon reported taking part in very well defensively was just as crucial.

“We manufactured some outs at very first foundation and received some tags,” Dixon claimed. “If you can get some outs in SweeTees without having the strikeouts, that can help you out a lot.”

Dothan mentor Marc Corridor acknowledged his crew did tire a bit in the title activity after coming off the elimination game win, but primarily credited Troy in its earn.

“That workforce (Troy) in excess of there is a really good group,” Hall claimed. “In this league, when you’ve obtained 12 women who can regularly strike, it’s hard to be on protection for all 12 batters.

“All the kudos to them, but I do not know if I have at any time been prouder of a group of women who were being really at a downside when we set this team together a handful of months ago.”

For Dothan, it experienced been a powerful operate in a match after altering to mentor-pitch principles. For the duration of the frequent league time, Dothan teams played regular T-Ball by hitting off a tee, but the condition match needed coach-pitch, which the other entries had performed during the standard year.

“They really do not even recognize nonetheless what they’ve completed, but I consider someday down the road they will,” Corridor mentioned of his team’s achievements. “We defeat Montgomery twice – last night time (Sunday) and right now – which is considered a single of the improved teams right here. They beat Troy … that was Troy’s decline in the match the other evening. But I consider our women did run out of gas.”