TRENTON, Ga. — It might have been a bit more dramatic than she would have hoped, but Wednesday night’s 10-4 win at Dade County was maybe a good thing for Gordon Lee coach Dana Mull’s softball team.
The Lady Trojans (25-2) scored seven runs in the seventh inning to turn around a 4-3 deficit and complete a 14-0 run through GHSA Region 7-A Division I, with the comeback win providing a finishing touch on Mull’s 22nd region championship heading into the start of the state playoffs next week.
The closeness of the game was in stark contrast to the great majority of Gordon Lee’s region contests this season. The Lady Trojans won their previous eight league games by a combined score of 127 runs to zero.
Having not been challenged of late, Wednesday’s rally over the talented Lady Wolverines (22-7, 12-2) was relieving and encouraging for Mull.
“It just says a lot about them,” she said of the Lady Trojans. “We didn’t play our best game early on, but the fight they showed in that last inning was great. We could have lost that game 4-3 and still been region champs, but they didn’t want to end on a loss. Once we got rolling, we kept rolling, but it was a little too late for what I would like.