Lady Rabbits crowned 3A District 14 undefeated champions

Atlanta’s softball team wrapped up its regular season schedule Apr. 20, and claimed the district crown after finishing 12-0 in district play.

The Lady Rabbits, like most schools, had to play back-to-back contests after storms forced games to be rescheduled last week.

Atlanta topped rival Queen City, 15-6, Apr. 19, and beat Redwater, 11-6, Apr. 20, to complete the undefeated district campaign.

Atlanta 15, Queen City 6

Atlanta and Queen City met up for the second time this season Apr. 19.

The first game was a close, 4-3, win for the Lady Rabbits back in March. This game had all the makings of another barn-burner until Atlanta put up 10 runs in three innings.

When the dust settled Atlanta had topped the Lady Bulldogs, 15-6.

Jordan Hodge scattered nine hits over seven innings of work with five earned runs given up and 12 strikeouts.

For Atlanta, Victoria Clayton upped her home run total to eight on the season and finished 3-for-5 with a homer, a double and two RBIs and teammate Cara Taylor only had one hit on the night but that one hit was a grand slam.

Taylor finished with five RBIs in the contest.

Madeline Clayton was 4-for-4 with a double, Sydni Davis was 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI, Hodge hit a double, Callie Dyer had a couple of hits in the game with two ribbies, Valerie mason added a couple of singles, Kinlee Hamilton hit a single and Hannah Wall hit a single.

For QC, Trinity Oden was 3-for-4 with two home runs and four RBIs, Serenity Oden was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Erica Lavoie hit an RBI single, Lauren Carrell hit a single, Mallori Stringer hit a single and Jacey Cauthorn hit a single.

Atlanta 11, Redwater 6

The Lady Rabbs beat Redwater, 6-4, back in March and this game started out being anyone’s contest.

The scoreboard still showed a score of, 0-0, until Atlanta plated a run in the fourth inning.

Atlanta put another run across the dish in the fourth for a, 2-0, advantage but the Lady Dragons plated two runs of its own in the bottom half of the fifth inning which knotted the score up at, 2-2.

Atlanta added a go-ahead run in the sixth but both teams saved the fireworks for the final inning of play.

In the top of the seventh frame the Lady Rabbs plated eight runs and took a commanding, 11-2, lead with three outs to go.

Redwater put together a little rally in the bottom half as they scored four runs, but couldn’t make up enough ground to overtake the Lady Rabbits.

Jordan Hodge scattered seven hits over seven innings and struck out eight batters.

Victoria Clayton was 3-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI, Jade Albertson was 2-for-3, Kinlee Hamilton was 2-for-3 with two RBIs, Cara Taylor hit a double and had three RBIs, Jordan Hodge hit an RBI double, Madeline Clayton had an RBI single and both Hannah Wall and Sydni Davis had RBIs in the game.

Atlanta will play Winnsboro for a bi-district crown beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 29, in Atlanta.

Game two will take place at 6 p.m. Apr. 30, in Winnsboro with game three to follow in case it is needed.