Dothan in Ponytails title game | High-school

Dothan innovative to the Ponytails (ages 12-below) championship video game slated for Tuesday by defeating Montgomery Gray 17-5 and then acquired a bye into the championship recreation to experience the winner of the Wicksburg vs. Greenville activity Tuesday early morning, which starts at 10 a.m. The winner faces Dothan soon immediately after in the finals.

Those people three teams each and every have one particular decline, but Dothan gets the computerized bye into the title game because of to acquiring played the most games of the three. Dothan has performed 5 video games, though Wicksburg and Greenville have each performed 4.

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

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

The lone condition championship video game remaining is the Ponytails on Tuesday.

The Wicksburg-Greenville recreation will be a rematch. Wicksburg entered Monday’s game towards Greenville as the only unbeaten team in the match, but Greenville took a 10-8 earn to remain alive and create the 3-group tie. Dothan defeated Greenville 18-17 to open up the match, but dropped its to start with sport to Wicksburg 6-2 on Sunday. The championship video game is slated to start soon immediately after the elimination activity.

In Dothan’s massive get Monday above Montgomery Grey to make its way into the championship recreation, the team received out to a 9- lead in the best of the to start with inning.

“That’s what we preach,” Dothan head mentor Brian Lindsey stated. “Any time we’re website visitors, we want to arrive out and get pressure off our pitchers by scoring 4, five, six, seven operates and we came out of the gate and established the tone.”

Lindsey was very pleased of how his crew responded following getting rid of to Wicksburg the evening prior to.

“Coming off our initially defeat, we just told the ladies that match was above with and we couldn’t improve what occurred in the earlier and we still controlled our possess destiny,” Lindsey stated. “They arrived out well prepared and took care of enterprise.”

Lindsey believes Dothan is in fantastic form pitching-sensible likely into the finale, which is scheduled to start out shortly after the elimination match.

“We have four pitchers and they have all accomplished what we desired them to do,” Lindsey reported. “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 mentioned the two key setting up pitchers are Lanie Brooks Lindsey and Allie Potter, but Campbell Mendheim and Mary Van Rope are also robust in the circle.

Considering that Dothan was an automatic host staff with the event being in town, the team did not have to go by way of district competitiveness. Lindsey believes that relatively place the staff at a disadvantage in coming jointly as a group. Having said that, he mentioned the staff has bonded nicely.

“Every woman from the major to the bottom has been practically nothing but crew 1st and has had fantastic attitudes,” Lindsey stated. “I couldn’t request for 12 better gamers.”

Wicksburg received in an early gap versus Greenville, falling behind 9-1 in the third inning ahead of rallying to make it a close activity.

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

Driskell reported the team will be completely ready to engage in Tuesday in hopes of finding revenge from Greenville and earning a shot at the title versus Dothan.

“Our state of mind is we perform 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 1st inning, but Troy responded with six in the bottom 50 % and never ever looked back again.

Soon after holding Dothan scoreless in the next, Troy tacked on seven more runs to direct 13-2. Dothan fought again with seven operates in the third to cut the deficit to 13-9, but Troy answered it with seven in the bottom of the inning to lead 20-9 en route to the eventual 23-12 get.

“We commonly strike the ball truly perfectly … that is what we work on a ton,” Troy coach Anthony Dixon claimed.

Nevertheless, Dixon mentioned participating in effectively defensively was just as significant.

“We designed some outs at very first foundation and got some tags,” Dixon mentioned. “If you can get some outs in SweeTees with no the strikeouts, that will help you out a great deal.”

Dothan mentor Marc Hall acknowledged his crew did tire a bit in the title activity soon after coming off the elimination game gain, but typically credited Troy in its get.

“That team (Troy) above there is a pretty good crew,” Corridor stated. “In this league, when you’ve received 12 ladies who can constantly hit, it is really hard to be on protection for all 12 batters.

“All the kudos to them, but I don’t know if I have at any time been prouder of a group of women who were definitely at a disadvantage when we set this workforce together a couple months back.”

For Dothan, it had been a solid operate in a tournament soon after adjusting to mentor-pitch rules. Throughout the frequent league period, Dothan teams played classic T-Ball by hitting off a tee, but the state tournament needed coach-pitch, which the other entries experienced performed all through the typical time.

“They don’t even fully grasp nevertheless what they’ve carried out, but I believe someday down the highway they will,” Corridor explained of his team’s achievements. “We defeat Montgomery two times – final evening (Sunday) and right now – which is regarded as 1 of the better teams right here. They conquer Troy … that was Troy’s loss in the tournament the other night. But I feel our girls did operate out of gasoline.”