Softballs signed by the Silverdale Baptist Academy team convey messages of support for their teammate Allison Meadows, who was stabbed while shopping at a Target store in Pittsburgh, Pa., last week.
Allison Meadows talks about the attack during an interview at her home. She is recovering from surgery for her wounds.Allison Meadows is eager to play softball again this year, even though it may be a while.
Meadows is the 16-year-old Silverdale Baptist Academy sophomore who was stabbed multiple times at a Target store last Monday in Pittsburgh, Pa., where she was with her parents visiting other family members while she was on spring break. Meadows was released from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on Thursday and returned home Friday.
At the time spring break arrived, Meadows was batting .563 (9-for-16) and leading the Lady Seahawks in runs scored. Silverdale softball coach Tim Couch said Meadows’ well-being is the top priority, but the ordeal has left a void at the top of the lineup and in center field.
“We’ll just kind of play with it,” Couch said of deciding on who will play in center. “Early in the season is when you want to do that kind of thing. We might go with Sloane Woodard at leadoff, but we have some other options. We’ll look at it and see and just go from there.”
Doctors in Pittsburgh said the prognosis for Meadows is a full recovery in about four weeks, which is around the time postseason play begins for TSSAA Division I teams.