Lessons from 2024 learned: ‘intensity’ keys Sectional softball win at Science Hill
JOHNSON CITY— A huge lesson learned from 2024 paved the way for Farragut softball to reach Murfreesboro and the Division I-4A State Tournament.
“What we didn’t want to happen, and what I really stressed at the end of the Halls game,” an 8-1 Region 2-4A title-game home loss Thursday, May 15, “don’t let the Halls game beat us twice like it did last year,’” Lady Ads skipper Nick Green said after his team’s resounding 10-3 Sectional win at Region 1-4A champ Science Hill Friday, May 16. “We lost to Halls (in 2024), then we carried that over into the sectional game.
“We needed to focus on Science Hill,” he added. “Collectively, it was just our intensity. That was a big deal. We were ready to play right out the gate.”
First-inning singles by Logan Jameson and Rylee Raby came before Elsa Morrison’s sac fly. And then, sophomore staff ace and winning pitcher Halley Grace Johnson “hits the first pitch out for two-run homer, and immediately we’re up 3-0,” Green said. “So that was huge, coming right out of the gate and scoring.”
After the Lady Hilltoppers smacked a two run homer in the first, a two-out Jameson RBI double made it 4-2 Farragut in the second inning.
Two Morrison solo home runs, while Johnson worked out of two bases-loaded/none-out jams to allow just one run, kept FHS up 6-3 heading to the seventh.
A Raby solo homer plus an RBI double from Eleena Ralston scored Morrison, who was intentionally walked. “And then Ava Barnes hits a two-run homer to put us up 10-3,” Green said.
