In yesterday’s GHSA State Fast Pitch Softball Playoffs, the Cartersville Lady Canes advanced to the Class 5A Tournament with a dominant doubleheader sweep of Blessed Trinity at Dellinger Park. Cartersville won the opener 11-3 in five innings and the nightcap 18-0 in four innings. The Lady Canes pounded out 27 hits, including 14 extra-base hits and three home runs.
Presley Crabbe earned the Game 1 win, allowing three earned runs on eight hits with three strikeouts. Zoie Shiflett shut out the Titans in Game 2 on two hits with four strikeouts. Allana Williams led the offense with five hits. Kennedy Crenshaw drove in nine runs, including a grand slam, while LaKiaya Banks added six RBI.
Cartersville improves to 30-2 and returns to the Columbus Softball Complex for the third time in four seasons. The Lady Canes open the double-elimination tournament October 28th against the winner of the Marist-East Forsyth series.
Elsewhere in Class 5A, the Cass Lady Colonels’ season ended after they dropped both games of a doubleheader at Starr’s Mill. Cass fell 2-1 in the opener on a walk-off home run, then lost the second game 5-1. Junior pitcher Kylie Gentry threw a complete game in the first contest, allowing two runs with eight strikeouts, and worked two innings in the nightcap. Lily Powell finished the second game. Lindsey Chubb and Gentry each hit two. Cass ends the year 17-13.
In Class 4A, the Adairsville Lady Tigers dropped two one-run decisions at West Laurens and exited in the second round. The Tigers fell 8-7 and 11-10. Adairsville led both games late—holding a 7-4 advantage into the bottom of the seventh in the opener and a 9-3 lead after four innings in the second—but West Laurens rallied each time. Chloe Hill and Paislee Rooks took the pitching losses. Ansley Powell led the Tigers with five hits, including a home run. Ashlynn Durden drove in five runs. Adairsville finishes 21-13.
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