Meigs County sent 13 to bat in an eight-run fourth inning and rolled to a 12-3 semifinal win over East Ridge in the Region 3-AA high school softball semifinal game Monday at Decatur.
Meigs County (36-6) will host Central in the championship game Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Jill Davis and Hannah Kerley each had a two-run single and winning pitcher Brooke Melhorn had two hits in the fourth for the winners, who also got a home run from Courtney Combs and two hits, three RBIs and two runs scored from Lynsey Million.
Region 4-AA
Jaclyn Saunders had a three-run double and Haley Fugate contributed a two-run home run for Bledsoe County in a 9-0 win over Livingston Academy in a semifinal at Pikeville.
Host DeKalb County scored two unearned runs on three hits and an error in the fourth inning and tacked on a run in the sixth and defeated Sequatchie County 3-0 in the other semifinal.
Bledsoe County (21-9) will host DeKalb County with the region title at stake Wednesday at 7 p.m. EDT. Sequatchie ended with a 25-14 record.
Region 3-AAA
Soddy-Daisy scored three runs each in the first and second innings on the way to an 8-0 Region 3-AAA semifinal victory over Warren County.
Soddy-Daisy (46-2) will host Coffee County (30-6) in Wednesday’s region final at 7 p.m. The Lady Raiders beat Ooltewah 10-0 in six innings in Monday’s other semifinal.
The Lady Trojans’ Kali Henderson drove in five runs with a two-run single in the first, a two-run home run in the second and a run-scoring hit in the fourth.
Coffee County scored five runs in the second inning on eight consecutive hits, and Ginny Clayborne added a solo home run as part of a three-run fourth. That ended the Lady Owls’ season at 28-13.