MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Grace Academy’s softball team again will be bringing a trophy back to Chattanooga from the TSSAA Spring Fling, but again not the one the Lady Golden Eagles coveted.
Seeking to become the first Grace girls’ team to win a state championship in any sport, the Lady Golden Eagles came up short in the Class A final for the second consecutive season.
Decatur County Riverside defeated Grace 10-0 in six innings Friday at Starplex No. 4.
Both of the Lady Golden Eagles’ losses in the double-elimination tournament were to the Lady Panthers. The big edge was that Riverside had different winning pitchers, Ericca McCormic in the final, while Lacye Walker suffered both losses.
“The other night some of their batters saw our other pitcher five or six times,” Riverside coach Michael Box said of Brooke Kennedy, who pitched Wednesday’s 5-4 11-inning victory. “We wanted them to see somebody different.”