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Softball
** “Excitement” has been the word of the day for the young Lady Panther softball team for the past ten days. They beat Madison County High School on Friday, May 25 to earn the Bull Run District’s third seed going into the Region “B” Tournament the last week of May. By the end of this week Rappahannock County was the only Bull Run District team left in play with Manassas Park and $rentsville knocked off in the fjrst round.
; Rapp vs the 1 Riverheads
« How did they do it is the (uestion of the week? The 1 oad to the state started with t le defeat of their rivals in 1 ladison County to secure a Berth in Regional play. From there the team took to the ^joad in the big yellow bus dnder the expert driving of Mr. Charles Jenkins. They Raveled to the Staunton area Bo play the number one seed from the Shenandoah District, riie Riverheads High School at fiheir home field complete with Iwo hundred hostile fans, an 4ir horn, and cowbells, j The Riverheads pitcher Retired the first nine Rapp bathers.
Going into the top of the fourth inning the score was 10, with the Riveheads on top, scoring in the first inning on two hits and a sacrifice bunt. But the Lady Panther’s determination stepped up to the blate with Gwen Johnson in me fourth as she ripped one
jjito right field. She then stole second and Ryisha Cook hit a fine drive to left center, knocking Johnson home to even the (bore 1-1. if* With Cook on and Sharp at £et, Cook stole second, then Mole third, and advanced Home with a Sharp RBI bunt (>ase hit. Sharp then stole second, and Dana Caldwell advanced her to third with
other bunt base hit. Jamie
al ripped a line drive to the
8t baseman for the first out. ut, Eva Mills bunted for
other RBI base hit as Sharp scored. Then, Brandy Early jktepped up to the plate with a
2 count and slammed a
iple into deep right field,
ring both Mills and Sharp,
e inning ended with Early jft on base and a 5-1 score in ftapp’s favor.
| The Riveheads never (cored again, tried a pitching :hange, but all for naught as lapp added to the tally with ip 8-1 final score. This was a >ig win for Rappahannock vhich we never realized until a ter. But, the Riveheads’
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