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UIL SOFTBALL STATE TOURNEY: Gatesville vs. Needville
AUSTIN — Needville Bluejays designated player Shauni Prihoda scooted around the bases for an inside-the-park home run in the bottom of the sixth to push Needville into the UIL Class 3A state championship game. Prihoda scored the go-ahead run on a ball that ricocheted off Gatesville shortstop Kylie Nichols’ glove and into the left-field foul corner, lifting the Bluejays to a 2-1 victory in the 3A semifinals at McCombs Field. Nichols posted the Hornets only hit, a line drive to right in the top of the fifth and she later scored on a Needville error. Gatesville’s season comes to an end at 32-10. The Hornets ascended from finishing in third place in District 7-3A to reach the state tournament.
8:51 p.m. — Falls and Needville retired Gatesville in order in the top of the seventh as Leib, Smith and Nichols all flew out. Needville wins, 2-1.
8:39 p.m. — Well, as soon as I wr0te that we might be headed to extra innings tied at 1, Needville came up with a huge play. Shauna Prihoda hit a sharp grounder deep in the hole at shortstop. It ricocheted off of Nichols glove and all the way into the left-field foul corner. That makes it a unique home run for Prihoda. Gatesville got out of the rest of the inning unscathed. Needville 2, Gatesville 1 after six.
8:35 p.m. — Gatesville goes down in order in the top of the sixth. I get the feeling we’re headed for extra innings.
8:30 p.m. — Smith came close to turning her third double-play of the game. She caught a pop-up by Julie Kalmus and nearly picked off Cierra Wieghat at first. Leib struck out Courtney Cox for the third out. Gatesville 1, Needville 1 after five.
8:22 p.m. — A nice bunt by Cassie Morphet helped tie the game for Gatesville. Morphet was thrown out at first, but Nichols turned second with authority and slid in safely at third when the ball got away from Needville third baseman Jenny Stack. The ball bounced into the photographers area, which equaled a free pass home for Nichols. That’s all the Hornets were able to get out of the mini-rally, but we’re tied at 1 going to the bottom of the fifth.
8:19 p.m. — Gatesville’s Kylie Nichols singled to right for the Hornets’ first official hit.
8:16 p.m. — Nothing doing in the top of the fourth for the Hornets. But ooohh! There’s a nice throw by Colson to pick off, guess who, Rodriguez at second. Aslin caught a foul fly ball right by the bag at first for the second out and Augeri ran in to snag a fly ball in center for the third out. Jason Orts points out that for the second straight inning Needville had a leadoff runner reach base, but still got out 1-2-3. Needville 1, Gatesville 0 after four.
8:05 p.m. — Gatesville came up with another couple of sharp defensive plays to get out of the third inning. Leib went sprawling for a pop up in front of the plate. She couldn’t catch it, but she plucked it, whirled and threw to second to force out Amy Briscoe. Then Smith caught the next pop up, by Becca Rademacher and caught Shauni Prihoda way off of first base.
8:03 p.m. — The official scorer called Chartier’s hit a three-base error, meaning Gatesville is still hitless. That’s a bad ruling in my opinion as Chartier seemed poised to beat the throw even if it had been on the mark.
7:58 p.m. — Gatesville’s Megan Chartier went running wild, a little too wild. Chartier reached base on a bunt single, then took off for second when the throw to first went flying into right field. Chartier rounded second and easily made it to third, but she should’ve stopped there. Chartier got caught between third and home and Needville catcher Julie Stack tagged her out to end the top of the third.
7:52 p.m. — We’re flying by here at McCombs Field. I had some technical difficulties that kept me from blogging in the last 10 minutes and in that time, an inning passed by. Needless to say, not much happened. Leib struck out Julie Kalmus for the third out in the bottom of the second. Needville 1, Gatesville 0 after two.
7:42 p.m. — Gatesville got out of the first inning with a nice defensive play. After Leib struck out Shelby Parham for the first out, Randi Smith scooped a grounder, checked Needville runner Alyssa Rodriguez at third, and threw to Allison Aslin for out No. 2. Rodriguez tried to test Aslin’s arm and go home, but Aslin threw a strike to catcher Amber Colson for the third out. Needville 1, Gatesville 0 after an inning.
7:39 p.m. — Gatesville is off to a bumpy start in the bottom of the first inning, a hit by Becca Rademacher and two Hornet errors have yielded a run with no outs yet.
7:35 p.m. — Falls retired Gatesville’s Chartier, Rebecca Augeri and Emily Leib in order in the first, going strikeout, fly-out to left, strikeout.
7:30 p.m — Needville pitcher Cally Falls fires the first pitch to Gatesville leadoff hitter Megan Chartier, it’s a strike as Chartier attempted to slap bunt and we’re underway.
7:25 p.m. — All right, we’re ready to go here for the 3A semifinal as Gatesville attempts to go through Needville into the 3A state championship game. The shadows are starting to stretch across McCombs Field as the game announcer is calling out the rosters.
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By Mike
June 4, 2009 10:38 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Go Jays!!! Congrats girls. Is there any chance that this blog will continue for the state title game? I enjoyed it tonight.
By Tom Smith
June 5, 2009 10:18 AM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
Great blog of game, however, the out at 8:05pm was made by catcher Amber Colson who scooped the ball up from Emily Leib and Colson threw to second!