Sr. Jordan Smith, standing on third base in a tension packed game as thick as molasses. The two best teams in the state squaring off in an epic battle. Bottom of the ninth (9th), score tied 2-2.
Big bat Brooke Palmer at bat, and the coaches call a suicide squeeze. The pitch is easily 2 foot off the plate as Brooke lunges for it, miss. The catcher bobbles it slightly and looks and Jordan Smith is caught vulnerable directly between 3rd and home. This tremendous athlete reverses field trying so hard to get back. Extends her most athletic, trim, lean body, head first slide toward third as the catcher rifles the bobbled ball to get an out.
The ball is high and tips off the third basemans glove as the most beautiful of our players in Jordan Smith (they all are), jumps up and in an instant starts running home. This time Jordan Smith does a feet first slide at home base and barely, just barely, beats the throw back from third base to home to score the game winning run.
Jordan Smith won this game tonite. Boiling Springs 3 ... Northwestern 2.
The sequence of events was poetry in motion. To pull it off, required the exact changes in direction, the superior speed that Jordan has, and the sacrifice required of all the lady bulldogs to put their own body in harms way for the greater good of the Lady Bulldogs.
Before that, 7th grader Arrissa Edwards with sub 2.9 speed, ran from second base on a ball hit just behind the first basemans head. No player on the planet can make it that far, that fast, but Arrissa did and resulted in a massive collision at home against a hard nose, superior catcher who let her have it. No matter, Arrissa Edwards was fast enough to make it and the run scored to tie this epic battle at 2-2.
Before that, sophomore Emma Williams placed a perfectly placed bunt down to get the tying run on base, before sub runner Edwards entered. What a great bunt, a key bunt, and one of the reasons the Lady Bulldogs prevailed.
The superstars of this team did their part. Sr. Webber Roberts had a HR (5, tm 37) to get the game within reach at 2-1.. Sr. Myranda Dills had a key RBI with Edwards to get the game to 2-2. Jr. McKenna Quinn locked down the pitching after Northwestern got to her early in the 1st to gain an early 2-0 lead.
It is the ordinary stars who make the Boiling Springs Lady Bulldogs the team they are. The Jordan Smith's. The Arrissa Edwards. The Emma Williams. They must be honored.
The Northwestern Lady Trojans are easily the best team we have faced. Pitcher Kori Wancheck is dominant. Kori Wancheck dominated our most potent batting line-up. The coaches at Boiling Springs will have to figure it out. For I fully expect the great Northwestern Lady Trojans back at some point.
Boiling Springs (27-2) plays at Clover Monday night in the winners round of the upper state championship. The mighty Clover Lady Eagles are a great, great team. And traveling there makes it all the more difficult. It is the big time folks. More to come.
Big bat Brooke Palmer at bat, and the coaches call a suicide squeeze. The pitch is easily 2 foot off the plate as Brooke lunges for it, miss. The catcher bobbles it slightly and looks and Jordan Smith is caught vulnerable directly between 3rd and home. This tremendous athlete reverses field trying so hard to get back. Extends her most athletic, trim, lean body, head first slide toward third as the catcher rifles the bobbled ball to get an out.
The ball is high and tips off the third basemans glove as the most beautiful of our players in Jordan Smith (they all are), jumps up and in an instant starts running home. This time Jordan Smith does a feet first slide at home base and barely, just barely, beats the throw back from third base to home to score the game winning run.
Jordan Smith won this game tonite. Boiling Springs 3 ... Northwestern 2.
The sequence of events was poetry in motion. To pull it off, required the exact changes in direction, the superior speed that Jordan has, and the sacrifice required of all the lady bulldogs to put their own body in harms way for the greater good of the Lady Bulldogs.
Before that, 7th grader Arrissa Edwards with sub 2.9 speed, ran from second base on a ball hit just behind the first basemans head. No player on the planet can make it that far, that fast, but Arrissa did and resulted in a massive collision at home against a hard nose, superior catcher who let her have it. No matter, Arrissa Edwards was fast enough to make it and the run scored to tie this epic battle at 2-2.
Before that, sophomore Emma Williams placed a perfectly placed bunt down to get the tying run on base, before sub runner Edwards entered. What a great bunt, a key bunt, and one of the reasons the Lady Bulldogs prevailed.
The superstars of this team did their part. Sr. Webber Roberts had a HR (5, tm 37) to get the game within reach at 2-1.. Sr. Myranda Dills had a key RBI with Edwards to get the game to 2-2. Jr. McKenna Quinn locked down the pitching after Northwestern got to her early in the 1st to gain an early 2-0 lead.
It is the ordinary stars who make the Boiling Springs Lady Bulldogs the team they are. The Jordan Smith's. The Arrissa Edwards. The Emma Williams. They must be honored.
The Northwestern Lady Trojans are easily the best team we have faced. Pitcher Kori Wancheck is dominant. Kori Wancheck dominated our most potent batting line-up. The coaches at Boiling Springs will have to figure it out. For I fully expect the great Northwestern Lady Trojans back at some point.
Boiling Springs (27-2) plays at Clover Monday night in the winners round of the upper state championship. The mighty Clover Lady Eagles are a great, great team. And traveling there makes it all the more difficult. It is the big time folks. More to come.
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