TRION, Ga. – Two things Dana Mull’s Gordon Lee High School softball teams always have stressed are making an opponent earn its runs and never stop applying pressure while at bat.
Those two staples were key in Thursday night’s 8-0 win over Region 6A-A rival Trion, a game that was delayed an hour by inclement weather and began with four scoreless innings.
The Lady Trojans (10-0, 4-0) used aggressive baserunning to score two runs in the fifth and then broke it open with six in the sixth to back one-hit, six-strikeout pitching from Emma Langston (6-0).
“Emma pitched a great game,” Coach Mull said. “They had one inning where they had the first two runners on, but she kept calm and threw her game, and the defense played well behind her.”
Langston and Trion starter Whitney Shepherd matched zeros early, with each team stranding a pair of runners in one inning. The Lady Trojans’ Kirbie Bradley and Macie Pearson led off the fifth with singles, and after an infield out that moved both runners up, Addison Sturdivant hit a hard grounder that scored Bradley on a close play at home.