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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Crawfordsville High
School sophomore Chelsea Day threw a five-inning no-hitter in Tuesday’s IHSAA
Southmont Sectional
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IHSAA
Southmont Sectional
At Southmont HS
First-round
Game
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Crawfordsville 11, Southmont 0
(5 innings)
Southmont 000
00 – 0 0 1
Crawfordsville 023 6X – 11 11 0
WP: Chelsea Day C
(12-0). LP: Sam Green S (0-4)
Crawfordsville runs scored: Stormy Staton
2, Ariel Hinton 2, Sarah Williams 2, Marissa French 2, Chelsea Day, Alex Brock,
Kylie Justus
Crawfordsville RBI: Elizabeth Zachary 4, Hannah Fink, Sarah
Williams, Stormy Staton, Ariel Hinton, Hayley Fink
Crawfordsville hits:
Stormy Staton 2, Elizabeth Zachary 2, Hannah Fink 2, Hayley Fink, Marissa
French, Chelsea Day, Sarah Williams, Ariel Hinton
2B: Sarah Williams C;
Stormy Staton C; Ariel Hinton C
Stolen bases: Southmont 0, Crawfordsville
4 (Stormy Staton, Ariel Hinton, Hayley Fink, Hannah Fink)
LOB: Southmont
1, Crawfordsville 4
Records: Crawfordsville 25-2, Southmont 9-12
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Reprinted Courtesy of:
Paper of Montgomery County
thepaper24-7.com
By John
Groth
Sports
Editor
NEW
MARKET – Chelsea Day went wild.
Crawfordsville High School’s sophomore
pitcher was so pumped up for the team’s Indiana High School Athletic Association
first-round sectional game.
With the adrenaline going facing county- and
Sagamore Athletic Conference rival Southmont, she launched her first pitch way
left of home plate and into the fence.
Then, she settled down and went
crazy with strikeouts.
Day pitched a no-hitter, striking out 10 batters,
and junior Elizabeth Zachary added four RBI in Class 3A No. 5 Crawfordsville’s
11-0 five-inning win over Southmont in Tuesday’s IHSAA Southmont Sectional
first-round game.
“At the beginning I was (nervous). But after I started
to feel amazing through it,” said Day, who has struck out 20 Southmont batters
in her two starts against them this season. “I love pitching and it’s in
sectionals . . . the flow of it just helps.”
Crawfordsville (25-2)
advances to today’s sectional semifinals, where they Athenians will play county-
and conference rival North Montgomery. North Montgomery (9-4) defeated Lebanon
9-5 in Tuesday’s other first-round game.
Crawfordsville broke the
school’s single-season wins record and advanced to the semifinals for the first
time since 2006.
Day was dominant. She allowed only one base-runner –
walking Mounties’ junior Cayla Porter, the opening batter of the
game.
Day struck out one batter at least every inning and struck out the
side in the top of the second. She sent eight of the 10 Southmont (9-12) batters
down swinging.
“Chelsea was pumped,” Crawfordsville coach Brian Norris
said. “You saw it after the first batter. That’s what we needed from her. She
was ahead of hitters all day.”
Crawfordsville gave Day some run support
in the bottom of the second – scoring two runs. Zachary hit an RBI single and
sophomore Ariel Hinton scored off a passed ball.
They added three more
in the bottom of the third and erupted for six runs in the bottom of the fourth.
Zachary had an RBI sacrifice fly in the third and then added a two-RBI
single in the fourth.
Senior Sarah Williams, junior Stormy Staton and
Hinton each had RBI doubles in the inning to give the Athenians an 11-0
lead.
Day struck out the two of the final three batters she faced, with
freshman Crystal Flowers grounding out to Staton at first base to end the game.
“After pitching against (Southmont) one time before, I knew how to pitch
them,” Day said. “I pitched them up and outside.”
Southmont coach Curt
Brown acknowledged Day pitched a great game.
“(Chelsea) just throws
well,” he said. “She looked like she was throwing harder to the day when we
faced her two weeks ago.”
Southmont ended its season on a six-game losing
streak, with the last four losses coming without sophomore pitcher Jami Addler.
Addler injured her right knee during the team’s May 12 game against
Crawfordsville and didn’t pitch again.
But Brown wasn’t worried and said
she’ll back next season.
Senior Sam Green (0-4) took the loss, recording
one strikeout while only issuing two walks.
Brown was proud of the way
she pitched and how the Mounties’ young team, which included eight
underclassmen, came together this year.
“It was really fun year for the
coaching staff,” he said. “You couldn’t ask for a better team for a first-year
coach.”
Southmont graduates three seniors – Casey Stull, Anisha Gillogly
and Green – but returns the core of its youthful team.
Brown already has
summer plans to help the younger players get more experience.
He’s
forming a Southmont Summer League team in June to compete against other
conference teams on Tuesdays and Thursdays this summer.
The team will
include current players, along with five or six incoming freshmen, to help get
them more acclimated to high school level softball.
He’s also excited
about Southmont Junior High club softball starting next year.
“We’re
building a program,” Brown said. “These seniors had to go through three coaching
staffs in four years. There hasn’t been a lot of coaching stability here. That’s
going to change.”
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