Pierce County’s Lady Bears wrapped up their regular season, splitting a home-andhome two-game makeup series with fourthranked Region 3 foe Cook.
The Lady Bears (11-10 overall, 5-3 region), who finished tied with the Lady Hornets (155, 5-3) for second in the region standings behind top-ranked Appling County, notched a 4-0 home victory Tuesday, October 8 for a one-game lead.
Cook responded with a 13-4 win Wednesday, October 9 in Adel to forge a tie in the standings.
Pierce County enters the 32-team seeded field as the 16th-seed. The Lady Bears are hosting 17th-seed Therrell of Region 5. The Lady Panthers (11-5) are in the same region as Holy Innocents, Lovett and Carver-Atlanta.
The best-of-three tournament begins today (Wednesday, October 16) with “if” games slated for Thursday, October 17 at the highest seed (1 through 32). No game times have been released.
The second round begins at the site of the highest seeds remaining Tuesday, October 22 with “if” games Wednesday, October 23.
The PCHS-Therrell winner faces the winner of top-seed Appling County and 32nd-seed Butler out of the Augusta area.
Cook is in the same quadrant of the bracket as the ninth-seed. The Lady Hornets host 24th-seed Ringgold.
Crisp County, the 26th-seed, travels to seventh-seed Rockmart.
Lady Bears ........................................4 No. 4 Cook ........................................0
BEARVILLE — Carley Sloan twirled a complete game, five-hit shutout in pitching PCHS past the Lady Hornets.
Sloan needed 114 pitches to finish what she started. She finished with nine strikeouts, three walks and uncorked one wild pitch.
The Lady Bears broke a scoreless tie with a three-run third. Parker Sinclair ended a stretch of seven consecutive batters retired working a one-out, seven-pitch walk.
Bella Delaney’s (1-for-2) two-out base hit kept the inning alive. After a walk to Olivia Bennett (1-for-2) loaded the bases, Alyssa Crump’s fly ball to left was misplayed into a two-base error allowing all three base runners to score for a 3-0 lead.
PCHS added an insurance run in the fifth. Delaney drew a two-out, four-pitch walk, stole second and scored on Bennett’s single to right.
