Dothan in Ponytails title game | High-school

Dothan sophisticated to the Ponytails (ages 12-less than) championship game slated for Tuesday by defeating Montgomery Gray 17-5 and then gained a bye into the championship match to facial area the winner of the Wicksburg vs. Greenville video game Tuesday early morning, which begins at 10 a.m. The winner faces Dothan soon immediately after in the finals.

People three groups each have just one loss, but Dothan receives the automatic bye into the title activity because of to having played the most online games of the three. Dothan has played 5 online games, while Wicksburg and Greenville have each individual played 4.

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

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

The lone state championship game remaining is the Ponytails on Tuesday.

The Wicksburg-Greenville match will be a rematch. Wicksburg entered Monday’s activity from Greenville as the only unbeaten staff in the match, but Greenville took a 10-8 win to keep alive and generate the three-group tie. Dothan defeated Greenville 18-17 to open the match, but dropped its to start with recreation to Wicksburg 6-2 on Sunday. The championship game is slated to commence soon immediately after the elimination sport.

In Dothan’s massive gain Monday above Montgomery Gray to receive its way into the championship video game, the crew got out to a 9- guide in the top rated of the very first inning.

“That’s what we preach,” Dothan head mentor Brian Lindsey reported. “Any time we’re site visitors, we want to occur out and just take strain off our pitchers by scoring four, 5, six, seven runs and we arrived out of the gate and established the tone.”

Lindsey was very pleased of how his staff responded immediately after getting rid of to Wicksburg the evening before.

“Coming off our initially defeat, we just explained to the girls that sport was in excess of with and we couldn’t transform what took place in the previous and we continue to managed our personal destiny,” Lindsey reported. “They arrived out ready and took care of company.”

Lindsey believes Dothan is in excellent shape pitching-wise likely into the finale, which is scheduled to commence shortly immediately after the elimination video game.

“We have four pitchers and they have all accomplished what we needed them to do,” Lindsey mentioned. “We have two aces and they have loads of innings remaining, so we like the way we sit for a single or two game titles.”

Lindsey stated the two most important setting up pitchers are Lanie Brooks Lindsey and Allie Potter, but Campbell Mendheim and Mary Van Rope are also robust in the circle.

Due to the fact Dothan was an automated host group with the event becoming in town, the group didn’t have to go by way of district competitors. Lindsey thinks that fairly place the team at a downside in coming with each other as a team. However, he reported the workforce has bonded properly.

“Every female from the top to the base has been almost nothing but workforce initially and has experienced good attitudes,” Lindsey stated. “I could not question for 12 far better players.”

Wicksburg obtained in an early gap in opposition to Greenville, slipping behind 9-1 in the third inning ahead of rallying to make it a close game.

“We begun out a little, I would say, sluggish on the bats,” Wicksburg mentor Tracy Driskell mentioned. “Then we transformed out some pitching and the pitching begun shutting down their offense, and then our bats bought very hot.”

Driskell stated the crew will be completely ready to engage in Tuesday in hopes of getting revenge against Greenville and earning a shot at the title in opposition to Dothan.

“Our way of thinking is we enjoy for the Lord and we’re likely to contend,” Driskell mentioned.

In the SweeTees championship video game, Dothan scored two runs in the major of the to start with inning, but Troy responded with six in the base fifty percent and hardly ever seemed again.

Just after holding Dothan scoreless in the second, Troy tacked on seven far more operates to lead 13-2. Dothan fought again with 7 operates in the third 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 acquire.

“We typically hit the ball truly effectively … which is what we get the job done on a ton,” Troy mentor Anthony Dixon claimed.

However, Dixon mentioned participating in properly defensively was just as vital.

“We created some outs at initial foundation and received some tags,” Dixon explained. “If you can get some outs in SweeTees without the need of the strikeouts, that assists you out a great deal.”

Dothan coach Marc Hall acknowledged his staff did tire a little bit in the title activity right after coming off the elimination sport gain, but typically credited Troy in its gain.

“That group (Troy) around there is a extremely good staff,” Hall mentioned. “In this league, when you’ve obtained 12 ladies who can continuously hit, it is tough to be on defense for all 12 batters.

“All the kudos to them, but I really do not know if I’ve at any time been prouder of a team of ladies who had been definitely at a disadvantage when we put this team alongside one another a number of months in the past.”

For Dothan, it had been a robust operate in a tournament immediately after altering to coach-pitch principles. All through the normal league year, Dothan teams performed standard T-Ball by hitting off a tee, but the point out event needed mentor-pitch, which the other entries had played in the course of the common season.

“They do not even understand nevertheless what they’ve accomplished, but I assume sometime down the street they will,” Corridor mentioned of his team’s achievements. “We conquer Montgomery 2 times – previous night time (Sunday) and currently – which is deemed a person of the much better groups right here. They defeat Troy … that was Troy’s reduction in the match the other night time. But I think our women did operate out of fuel.”