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Published Thursday, October 09, 2008 in Sports
Locals clinch state berths
The Times-Herald
LOVEJOY -- Despite facing each other to start Thursday's Region 4-AAAAA tournament schedule, both locals went home happy.
The East Coweta Lady Indians qualified for their seven consecutive trip to the AAAAA sectionals Thursday night as they shutout crosstown rival Newnan 2-0 in a winner's bracket of the Region 4-AAAAA Tournament at Lovejoy Park.
Even bigger for the Lady Indians might have been a measure of revenge against Chapel Hill with a 4-1 victory in the second game of the evening.
The win came after a 2-0 loss to the Lady Panthers during the season for ECHS only region loss in the last three years.
Newnan, meanwhile, clinched their fourth trip to the state sectionals in five years as they blitzed through the loser bracket games over Westlake (16-1) and Mundy's Mill (13-1). Newnan will face Chapel Hill this afternoon at 4 p.m., with the winner to face East Coweta in the final.
East Coweta's two victories placed the Lady Indians into the finals of the tournament tonight at 6 p.m.
As for the opening game was a pitching duel between Alison Owen of East Coweta and Kayla Vallery of Newnan as they combined to allow nine hits and record 27 strikeouts.
The Lady Indians scored the only runs of the game as K.C. Mack singled and scored on a fielder's choice hit by Nikki Rainey while Haley Parkerson singled and eventually scored on a single by Rebecca Creswell.
When Vallery wasn't recording strikeouts, she was getting solid defense behind her including second base where Alicia Lavesseur was holding court with several assists in the game.
In the win over Chapel Hill, Christina Ezell hurled a two-hitter and walked a pair of batters while recording 15 strikeouts as well.
The Lady Indians scored their first run in the top of the third inning as Shirley Daniels reached on a walk, advanced to second on a wild pitch and moved to third on a sacrifice by Parkerson before coming home on a throwing error.
Ezell provided the rest of the Lady Indians offense in the top of the fifth inning as Daniels and Parkerson reached on a one-out single before Ezell brought both home on a triple.
The final run of the game for EC came as Brittany Satterfield, who was running for Ezell after her triple, scored on a wild pitch.
Chapel Hill had both their hits and their lone run in the bottom of the frame to avert a no-hitter and a shutout.
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