Page 12 - Wednesday, August 31, 2022
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Metter's Darcie
Salker does a face
plant and is doubled
off first after Alyssa
Harper caught a
fly ball in the sixth
and threw it to first
baseman Dailey
Williams for the
double play (photo
by Ginny Atchley)
2022 SCHS Cross Country Schedule
Thursday September 8
Thursday September 15
Tuesday September 27
Tuesday October 18
Thursday October 20
Tuesday October 25
Friday November 4
Home- Black Creek Scout Reservation
Home- Black Creek Scout Reservation
Home- Black Creek Scout Reservation
Home- Black Creek Scout Reservation
4:30
4:30
4:30
4:30
Claxton- Evans County Public Fishing Area 4:30
Class A Region 3 D-i Meet
Black Creek Scout Reservation TBD
Class A Di State Meet- Carrollton 9:45
30 YEARS SINCE
SOFTBALL STATE TITLE
Burton Kemp
Sports Editor 1992 State Champions
In 1992 Screven County High School won its first state championship of any sort.
It came in softball and happened on October 24 with a 3-2 win over Washington
County, very low scoring for a slow pitch softball game. It was the fourth game
of the day for the Lady Gamecocks and the fifth of the day for the Lady Hawks.
All of the runs were scored in the first inning. The Red and White of Head Coach
Dawn Bloodworth finished the season at 23-3. For the next weeks there will be a
little information from the games of that particular week on the way to the state
championship.
The season opened on August 26 and resulted in one of the team’s three losses.
Leading 5-0, SCHS saw Effingham County score six in the bottom of the seventh to
win the game 6-5. Fredia Albright, Danelle Toole, and Jessica McTeer had two hits
each. Five days later the team came back to whip Burke County 12-1 with McTeer
having four hits and four rbi. Brandy Bragg had three hits. SCHS had 18 hits.
September (the 2 nd) opened with a 13-2 win over previously unbeaten
Statesboro. Ginger Shields had three hits as did Kiki Mobley, who also had four
rbi. Finally on Thursday, September 3 the team played its first Region 2AA
doubleheader. It was in Lyons and resulted in 16-2 and 4-0 wins over Toombs
County. On the day Beth Thames and Octavia Zeigler had four hits each with
McTeer, Toole, Shields, and Albright having three each. Thames pitched all
games for the week.
Fall Sports Juniors: Kneeling are TaCorey Grant, Jemiah Stewart, Jamarcus Badger, Dre Flowers, Joseph
Bazemore, Kylrese Prescott, Jeremiah Hill. Standing are Dailey Williams, Gracen Kullberg, Lainey Womack,
Cheyenne Heath, Ashley Langley (photo by Gambrell Studios)
LADY GAMECOCKS
FALL TO METTER
IN NINE 5-4
CROSS COUNTRY TO
OPEN SEPTEMBER 8
2022 SCHS Lady Gamecock cross country team: Kneeling are Annaston Dotschay, Sadie Beth Sell, Ashley
Langley, Adaleigh Rountree Standing: Coach Anna Canetto, Lynnlie Rountree, manager Jalaine Rosier , Erin
Thompson (photo by Gambrell Studios)
With six runners, the Screven County Lady Gamecock cross country team
of Anna Canetto will open their 2022 campaign next Thursday, September 8
with a meet at their home course at the Black Creek Scout Reservation. The
team will have three more regular season meets on their home turf and one at
the Evans County Public Fishing Area near Claxton. All meets are scheduled to
start at 4:30. As of last week defending Region 3A champion Claxton is the only
scheduled opponent for next week, but more opponents may be added.
Heading into 2021 the Lady Gamecocks had won nine consecutive region titles
before finishing second to the Lady Tigers. This season both teams compete
in Class A Region 3 Di along with Metter, Bryan County, Savannah High, and
Woodville Tompkins. Metter was third in the region last year and Bryan County
brought but three runners. All will have runners again. It is unknown if the
Savannah schools will compete. The region meet is at the Boy Scout Reservation
on Tuesday, October 25. Claxton defeated SCHS 40-45 last season.
Canetto’s troops will head into 2022 with six runners, one less than the
maximum, but as only the top five runners count toward the team score that
does not matter. The two seniors, Lynnlie Rountree and Erin Thompson both
scored points in the region meet a season ago.
Rountree was 13 th overall and the fourth Lady Gamecock finisher while
Thompson was 14 th overall and the fifth SCHS finisher. The team’s one junior,
Ashley Langley, was the sixth place overall finisher last season and the second
Lady Gamecock. New to the team are freshmen Annaston Dotschay, Adileigh
Rountree, and Sadie Beth Sell.
According to Canetto the team has been dealing with a few injuries and
enduring the humid days, conducting practice in the auditorium on rainy days.
“We are working on building our mileage, we are up to 3 and a half, but I would
like us to get to four miles,” she concluded.
Their first region game with Claxton rained out on August 23, the SCHS Lady
Gamecock softball team of Jim Randall Doyle instead opened their Class A Region
3 Di schedule in Metter on August 25 and fell 5-4 in nine innings. The Red and
White hosted Greenbrier on Monday and hosts Islands of Savannah this afternoon
at 5:30. Portal will be here on September 7 at 5:30.
Needing to get a region opening win after their first chance was washed away,
SCHS jumped on homestanding Metter 3-0 in the top of the first. Key hits were
by Julia Dews and Shay Sasser. Metter came back to score two unearned runs off
Tamia Pierce (3-3, 2.31) in the home half. The Lady Tigers took a 4-3 lead after two
and held it until the fifth when Ashley Stanley scored on a single by Alyssa Harper.
The score remained at 4-4 until the bottom of the ninth when a bases loaded hit
batter forced in the winning run.
Pierce went the distance throwing 167 pitches allowing but five hits while walking
seven and hitting two. She struck out 12. Meanwhile SCHS managed but seven
hits, two of them by Dews. The Lady Gamecocks also picked up seven walks. A
disconcerting number was that the team was 0-8 with runners in scoring position
and left ten on base.
The term “pop up” shower and “scattered” showers are two of the weather man’s
favorites. With Claxton on the schedule for August 23 and the region opener
at hand the definition of either was exemplified last week. While light rain was
falling in nearby Sylvan Heights and no rain was falling at the nearby First Baptist
Church, the SCHS softball field was rendered unplayable by a ten minute deluge.
The all important game has been rescheduled for Monday September 12. On the
following day the teams will meet again in Claxton.
With a 6-5 win over SEB in Glennville on August 5 under their belt the Lady
Gamecocks went to Brooklet last Wednesday and had a rough, hopefully now
forgotten, day in a 10-0 loss.
Starting pitcher Lauren McMillan (1-2, 3.20) never had a chance as the team
made a total of seven errors on the day and all ten runs allowed by McMillan and
later Dews were unearned.
SCHS picked up four hits in the five inning affair, never getting a runner to
third base. The teams are scheduled to meet for a rubber match on October 12 in
Sylvania.
Rightfielder Alyssa Harper goes back on a
fly ball to record the first out of the Metter
half of the fifth inning (photo by Ginny
Atchley)
Senior centerfield
Amber Moore is
carried off the field
by the Metter Optim
trainer and Coach
Jim Randall Doyle.
Moore, diagnosed
with a badly
sprained ankly, was
trying to stretch a
single into a double
in the sixth inning
at Metter (photo by
Ginny Atchley)
In action against SEB senior Amber Moore attempts a slap (photo by Ginny Atchley)
Chris Martin of Screven County Farm Bureau, along with Coach Ron
Duncan, presented senior, Dylaun Adams with the "Player of the Week"
football for his performance in Friday night’s game against Bacon
County. The SCHS Football Team won the nail bitter game with a score
of 7 - 6. Congratulations Dylaun along with the entire SCHS Team!! Job
well done boys!
FARM
BUREAU
INSURANCE
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Screven CpUllty | CKris Martin
