ARLEY, Ala. – The Addison Bulldogs traveled to Meek High School to take on the Tigers in this year’s 1A, Area 14 tournament Monday night and it took three games to decide an area champion. Addison took game one 8-5 to take a 1-0 lead in the series but Meek bounced back to take game two 15-1 and game three 17-5 to capture the area championship. Both the Tigers and Bulldogs will advance to compete at the East Regional in Albertville next week.
Addison 8 – Meek 5 (Game One)
There was no score until the top of the third when Addison struck for two runs as Savannah Miller, “Mac” Carter and Lainey Evans all singled in a row, scoring Miller and Carter. The Tigers struck back in their half of the third as Molli Sandlin and Carmyn Daugherty hit back-to-back two out doubles to score Sandlin.
Meek plated two runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 3-2 lead. Addisyn Williams knocked in two of the runs with a single. Makayla Phillips knocked in the other run.
The ladies from Addison answered in the top half of the fourth with a big three run inning as Annabeth Powell sent a Tiger pitch over the centerfield fence for a three-run homer. This gave the Bulldogs the 5-3 lead.
Addison scored three more in the top of the seventh inning to seemingly put the game away with an 8-3 lead. Meek came back with two of their own in the bottom of the seventh to make it respectable and the final score was 8-5 Addison.
Meek 15 – Addison 1 (Game Two)
Not much to say about the second game as Meek led from start to finish. The Lady Tigers got two runs in the first as they had two hits, two walks, a hit batter and an error on the Dawgs to get their runs. Lady Tigers Williams and Daugherty scored the runs. Meek added two more in the third as Daugherty and Anna-Belle Collins scored to give Meek a 4-0 lead.
Meek’s Sandlin crushed a two-run homer in the fourth to push the lead to 6-0. The Lady Tigers added one more in the fifth as Sadi Farley singled in Collins. Meek got another run as Williams hit her second triple of the game and she came in to score on a Sandlin single.
Meek put the game away in the top of the seventh as they plated seven runs to lead 15-0. 12 Lady Tigers batted and the Tigers had 9 out of 10 batters reach base at one point. Addison was able to avoid the shutout as Preslei Atkins singled home Summer Evans will the long Bulldog run.
Meek’s Kadence Cox, pitching her second consecutive game, gave up no earned runs and got the complete game victory, allowing only four hits.
Meek 17 – Addison 5 (Game Three)
The Lady Tigers came out fired up in the top of the first and plated seven runs to put the Lady Bulldogs down seven before they even had a chance to bat. Six of the first seven Meek batters got hits to include four doubles in the inning. Six different Tigers had RBIs and Williams had two hits in the inning. Addison got a run back as Powell knocked in Evans.
The second had Meek scoring one with an Amori Miles sacrifice fly to left to score Collins to stretch the lead to 8-1. The Lady Bulldogs tried to make a game of it in their half of the second. A couple of Lady Tiger errors helped the Lady Dawgs as Katie Barrett drove in one run with a single and “Mac” Carter singled in two more runs to trim the lead to 8-4.
Meek had an answer as they plated nine more runs, five in the third and four in the fourth inning to salt the game away. Meek scored all their runs in the third inning on only two hits. Sandlin tripled in a run, Daughtrey hit a sacrifice fly and Cox singled in a run. The Lady Tiger fourth had Daughtrey single in two runs, Collins and Farley each hit sac flies to plate runs.
Unofficial Stats/highlights (three games)
Meek had Williams go five hits in 10 at bats, three RBIs, six runs scored with two triples. Sandlin went 9 out of 13 with six RBIs, five runs scored, with a double, triple and a home run. Daughtrey went 4-10 with six RBIs, six runs scored with three doubles. Collins went 6 out of 12 with four RBIs, seven runs scored and two doubles. Farley went 4 for 10 with five RBIs and two runs scored.
Kadence Cox pitched two complete games and collected two wins.
Addison had Miller go 3-11 with two runs scored and three stolen bases. Powell went 4-9 with four RBIs and two runs scored, a home run, a double and stolen base. Carter went 5-10 with three RBIs and three runs scored and four stolen bases.
Meek Head Coach Jessy Woods
“I tried to stress to the girls this week that even though we beat Addison several times this year these games were not going to be easy; Addison will be ready to play, and it showed in that first game,” Woods said. “I am happy with where the girls are at mentally right now. They keep their heads in the game, and we seem to be peaking at a great time. If we continue doing the little things I think continued success can be in our future.”
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