CLEVELAND, Tenn. – As Walker Valley softball coach Chris Doan put it, “The giant has been awakened.”
Soddy-Daisy had been breezing through the competition in the early part of the high school season until suffering a semifinal loss to Ooltewah in the Brentwood High Invitational over the weekend. If Wednesday’s 10-0 five-inning District 5-AAA victory at Walker Valley is any indication, the Lady Trojans are revitalized.
“We’ve given up one run all year and it beat us,” Soddy-Daisy coach Clifford Kirk said.
So, when the Lady Trojans have scored, they’ve won. That means Brandi Lasley’s three-run homer in the top of the first inning pretty much settled Wednesday’s game early.
“With Nunley throwing,” Kirk said of sophomore right-hander Kelsey Nunley, “three runs just about means we’re going to win it.”