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Region play has arrived for local softball teams. Fort Dorchester is 12-1 on the season with a 2-1 mark in 5A Region 8 with a 15-0 win over Stall, a 12-7 win over Ashley Ridge and a 3-1 loss to James Island. “We are looking forward to trying to fight through our region,” said Fort Dorchester coach Curtis Moore.
“We’ve played a lot of young girls in the infield who stepped up and Bayleigh Martin in left field is giving me everything I could want. Ashton Giet, Lilly Brinson and Martin are doing a great job at the plate. Before she was injured, leadoff hitter Destiny Copeland had some good at bats.
” Copeland was injured on the first at bat at James Island so she missed a non-region game against Berkeley April 10. Fort Dorchester hung in with a strong Berkeley squad, but lost 7-4. Giet and Mila Lorenzano both had an RBI double while Martin and Nadia Lorenzano both had an RBI single.
Brinson and Morgan Carter also had singles. The Patriots stranded 10 base runners throughout the game. With a .
543 batting average Brinson leads the category followed by Giet and Copeland. Giet leads in homeruns with 5 followed by Hailey Greatrex with 4. Giet also has the best on-base percentage (.
643) followed by Copeland (.611) and Brinson (.543).
Mila Lorenzano has a 1.183 ERA with 76 strikeouts while Brinson has a 1.862 ERA with 23 strikeouts.
This week brings a showdown with cross-town rival and state power Summerville. The Patriots host the Green Wave at 7 p.m.
Wednesday April 16. Summerville Softball Summerville’s lengthy winning streak was in jeopardy April 11 when the Green Wave hosted Aynor. The game was scoreless after 6.
5 innings. Summerville’s Katie Guilliam, Ansley Bennett and Melanie Edwards all received a base on balls to load the bases in the bottom of the seventh. Freshman Maeven Moreno came to the plate and battled to a full count.
She then hit a ball into the outfield for the game-winning single. “I took a really deep breath when I stepped up to the plate,” Moreno said. “I saw the pitch and just thought sit, sit, go.
Making contact was awesome.” Bennett had the complete-game shutout in the circle to bump her pitching record for the season up to 8-0. Hope Chase is 6-0 in the circle this season and Daphne Frady is 4-0.
Pitcher/third baseman Daphne Frady has helped Summerville get out to an 18-0 start this season with a 3-0 mark in its region. “Kids found a way to get on and Maeven stepped up big in a big spot,” said Summerville coach Heather Tucker. “That’s the scenario you put yourself in when you are a kid right so I’m super proud of her.
I’m proud of the team and how they played all game. Ansley threw great and we had some great plays defensively behind her. In the end you just have to finish with one more run than them so I’m happy.
” Guilliam is leading the team at the plate with a .593 batting average and .656 on-base percentage with four homeruns, nine doubles and two triples.
Moreno has a .447 batting average and .527 on-base percentage with six doubles.
Frady has a .442 batting average and .510 on-base percentage with two doubles.
Guilliam leads in RBIs with 23, followed by Ansley Bennett (21) and Edwards (17). Summerville carried a 68-game winning streak into this week. The team’s last loss came to Byrnes during the 2023 season.
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