Lady Dragons pick up two more wins
Freshman Lynnlee Adkins has been an impact player for the Lady Dragons at first base. (photo:Richard Evans )
The Lady Spartans took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but the Lady Dragons answered with a run in the bottom of the inning.
The game remained deadlocked at 1-1 until the bottom of the sixth, when Clinton plated six runs to take the decisive lead.
“I thought our hitting really took off,” said Leonard Sams, head coach of the Lady Dragons. “We had a slow game against Heritage and we went back to work on hitting. We started off a little slow but we finally got it going in the sixth inning and started hitting the ball well.”
Taylor Sherwood got the start and the complete-game win, going seven innings and allowing no earned run on five hits with 10 strikeouts and one walk.
The Lady Dragons pounded out seven hits with Tomi Taylor and Lynnlee Adkins each getting two. Sarah Burton, Marissa Eccles, and Cheryl Breeden each had one hit.
Breeden and Allyson Bender each drove in two, while Burton, Adkins, and Sherwood each had one RBI.
Last Friday, the Lady Dragons beat visiting Carter 9-0.
The Lady Dragons scored three in the bottom of the first and added a run in the third. They scored two in the fourth and three in the sixth.
“The hitting from the Webb game carried over. We started out hitting really well and kept it going,” Sams said.
Sherwood pitched three innings and allowed no runs on one hit with three strikeouts and one walk.
Bree McKamey pitched three innings and allowed no runs on two hits with three strikeouts and one walk. At the plate she went 2-4 with a double and three RBI.
Burton went 3-3 with a double while Breeden went 2-4 with double and a triple.
Heaven Britt-Kimbriel was 1-3 with a double and RBI while Adkins was 1-3 with two RBI.
Taylor was 1-4 with an RBI and Bender was 1-1 with an RBI. Eccles also added an RBI.
The Lady Dragons visit Oak Ridge on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and travel to Kingsport for a tournament with games scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.