Spring Fling 2012

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- After her team allowed an unearned run in the bottom of the fifth inning of the Division II-AA softball championship game Friday night, Baylor coach Kelli Smith didn't worry about how the Lady Red Raiders would respond. After all, they had been there just the day before.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Daniel Boone's 50th home run led to its 50th victory this season and put the Lady Blazers on the doorstep of a state softball championship. Kayla Smith's drive to left field leading off the fifth inni

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Grace Academy, the Class A runner-up each of the last two high school softball seasons, in the last two days paid back both teams that defeated them in those finals. But the Lady Golden Eagles need one more victory to claim the first championship in the program's history.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- The ticking time bomb that is Baylor's offense went off in the sixth inning Thursday.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Eleven weeks removed from Tommy John surgery on his left elbow, Ringgold senior Matthew Crownover was easy to spot in the softball crowd Thursday.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Soddy-Daisy's Kelsey Nunley and Coffee County's Brianna Jones on Thursday recreated the pitchers' duel they had not long ago in the Region 3-AAA final. And again it was the sixth inning when Nunley's Lady Trojans broke it up.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — If East Hamilton in Class AA or Grace Academy or Silverdale Baptist in Class A is going to win a TSSAA state softball championship, it will have to come all the way through their losers bracket.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- The fact that she had missed several games with torn ligaments in her right hand after being hit by a pitch earlier this season never played on Hannah Smith's mind.