Ooltewah’s Kayla Boseman pitches against Soddy-Daisy Monday, May 8, 2017 at Walker Valley High School.CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Soddy-Daisy used three intentional walks over the course of Monday’s District 5-AAA high school softball winners-bracket final at Walker Valley. Each time the Lady Trojans escaped the inning without a run scoring.
In the top of the eighth Soddy-Daisy’s hottest hitter, Alexis Trimiar, came to bat with two on and first base open, but Ooltewah chose to pitch to her. Trimiar’s fourth double of the game drove in both runners and the Lady Trojans held on and defeated the Lady Owls 6-4.
Soddy-Daisy (29-12) advances to the championship game tonight at 7 at Walker Valley. Ooltewah (28-6) will play McMinn County, a team it beat 8-0 on Sunday, in the losers-bracket final at 5. Should a second championship game need to be played, it would be Wednesday at 6.
The Lady Owls were the district regular-season champion and beat second-seeded Soddy-Daisy 11-0 on April 13 and 12-2 on April 25.
“It’s hard to beat a good team three times,” Ooltewah coach Jon Massey said. “That’s what we were up against. We knew they would be focused. They were aggressive early. They’ll be aggressive early tomorrow. We just hope it’s against us.”