Meigs County High School head softball coach Jeff Davis is not going to sugarcoat things. His Lady Tigers need to have their bats going if they want to contend for a Class 2A state championship this season.
While there will most likely never be another pitcher like recent SEC champion Ashley Rogers in program history, Meigs’ lockdown duo of juniors Lainey Fitzgerald and Sierra Howard has given them a great shot to win nearly every game this season.
When the Lady Tigers score three runs or more this season they are now 19-0 overall after catching fire with 15 hits and three home runs in Tuesday’s 12-2 Region 2-2A semifinals five-inning road victory over Marion County. However, Meigs has a 2-9 record when they fail to score at least three times. They are also 1-5 in one-run ball games and have been outscored just 8-4 in those games.
“We have the pitching and we really have the defense to help us make a deep postseason run,” Davis said. “We just have to get our bats going. So far up to this point, we haven’t had them in the really close games. Our pitching is really good to where when we put up three runs we feel like we will win. We just have had trouble scoring that many at times. Our lineup has the potential, they just have to put it together.”
Howard did her damage Tuesday at the plate as she hit rockets in her final three at-bats, one of those being her 18th home run of her prep career.