BEARVILLE — Pierce County rolled to an easy Class AA first round win here Wednesday no-hitting Region 5-AA Therrell High twice.
The 16th-seed Lady Bears (13-10), who finished tied for second in the Region 3-AA standings with Cook, blanked the visitors from Atlanta 17-0 in Game 1 and 18-0 in Game 2 over a total of six innings in the October 16 best-of-three series.
PCHS traveled Tuesday (October 22) to topranked defending Class AA champion Appling County, seeded first in the 32-team bracket. The Lady Pirates blanked Butler of the August area 15-0 and 15-0.
The Lady Hornets, seeded ninth, fell 9-5 and 5-4 at home to 24th-seed Ringgold. Crisp County, the 26th seed, lost 12-0 and 18-0 at seventh-seed Rockmart.
Game 1 Lady Bears..............17 Therrell ...................0
Carley Sloan fanned all nine batters she faced on 39 pitches against the overmatched Lady Panthers in the three inning series opener.
Four Therrell batters were retired on called third strikes while five went down swining.
PCHS blew the game open in the first inning scoring seven times and finished Game 1 with a 10run second.
The Lady Bears sent 11 batters to the plate in their first at bat and 14 in their second trip to the plate.
Bella Delaney (RBI, stolen base), Taylor Tomlinson (two RBI, two stolen bases), Gracie Corbitt (homer, four RBI) and Sloan (double, two RBI) recorded two hits apiece to lead Pierce County’s 11-hit attack.
Alyssa Crump (double), Parker Sinclair (RBI) and Lanie Mai each added a hit.
Corbitt’s homer was a two-run blast in the second inning pushing the margin to 12-0.
Game 2 Lady Bears .............18 Therrell ...................0
Zoy O’Berry was the beneficiary of a 13-run uprising in the first inning before delivering a pitch in the series clinching victory.
O’Berry fanned seven, walked one and hit a batter. She needed just 33 pitches in her no-hitter.
PCHS only collected six hits against four Lady Panther pitchers, who needed 106 pitches to get through three innings. The Lady Bears had 13 batters via a walk.
Delaney (triple, RBI, stolen base) had the only multi-hit game for Pierce County going 2-for-2. Olivia Bennett (RBI), Riley Chambless (two RBI, stolen base), Caren Drew, Maelee Childers (stolen base), Crump and Corbitt (double) registered a hit apiece.
