Our
middle school Lady Devils recently played in the Ardmore Middle School
Tiger Classic. Thirteen teams from Tennessee, north Alabama and Kentucky
participated. The local teams were
Elkmont, Ardmore and East Limestone. The tournament consisted of pool
play and then the teams were seeded into two brackets, Gold and Silver.
TOURNAMENT HIGHLIGHTS:
In
pool play Elkmont MS tied 5-5 with Moore County from Tennessee and lost
5-0 against the gold bracket champion, Meridianville.
In
tournament play, the Lady Devils won against Moore Co. 5-2 and moved to
the championship game of the Silver Bracket Championship to play East
Limestone.
In the Championship
game. Elkmont jumped out with a 2-0 lead against East and then fell
behind 7-2. With good strong hitting and solid defense, they edged past
the Lady Indians, 11-10.
The Elkmont JV Red Devils were playing at East
Limestone today in the Limestone County JV Tournament. Elkmont's opening game was against the East Limestone Indians. We won 7- 6. Elkmont's Jordan Nelson pitched 4 innings and was credited with the win. Relief pitchers, Eli Hobbs pitched 2 2/3 innings and Taylor Thomas 1/3 inning.
Ethan Wilson hit a grand slam to extend the lead to 7-2 but the Indians rally came up short in the 7th inning to end it 7-6. Elkmont's next game is against the Ardmore Tigers, March 25 @ 4 pm.
The Elkmont Middle School softball team are at the mid point in their season. Before taking time off this week for Spring Break, they played in the Elkmont Spring Fling Tournament, March 21 - 22. Five teams were invited to play, Tanner, East Limestone, West Limestone, Sheffield and of course, the Elkmont Lady Devils. The tournament was single elimination after a pool play round on Friday.
POOL PLAY ROUND:
Our first game was Friday night and we played Tanner. and Stephanie Bates pitched and was credited with a 6-3 win. The starting players were:
Montana Crowe
Emma McNatt
MaKayla Flannagan
Mckenzie Helms
Madison Pepper
Bailey Vinning
Anna Grace Wales
Gracie McMahan...The Lady Devils played Sheffield for the second game Friday night. We won 7- 4; Hannah Usery pitched for the win.
Starting Lineup:
Bailey Brewer
Emma McNatt
MaKayla Flannagan
Mckenzie Helms
Madison Pepper
Bailey Vinning
Anna Grace Wales
Gracie McMahan..
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After pool play, Elkmont was seeded 2nd in the single elimination tournament on Saturday.
Elkmont played Saturday morning in the the first game of the tournament. We played Sheffield. Montana Crowe pitched, winning 9-1. This send the Lady Devils to championship game to meet the West Limestone Lady Wildcats.
Starting Lineup:
Bailey Brewer
Emma McNatt
MaKayla Flannagan
Mckenzie Helms
Hannah Usery
Bailey Vinning
Anna Grace Wales
Gracie McMahan...
Elkmont's fourth game in two days was the Championship game. We played Saturday against West Limestone. The Lady Devils lost 7-4 and went home with 2nd place...Montana Crowe pitched and was credited with the loss.
Starting Lineup:
Bailey Brewer
Emma McNatt
MaKayla Flannagan
Mckenzie Helms
Hannah Usery
Bailey Vinning
Anna Grace Wales
Gracie McMahan
The Elkmont Spring Fling also had a JV division. They placed third. The Lady Devils beat West Limestone 2- 0 and Sheffield 7-8 in Friday's pool play. They played Ardmore in Saturday's single elimination tournament, losing 6-0. Ardmore lost to Decatur Heritage in the championship game.
As always, Down Home Portraits was there. For more great photos, click on SPRING FLING CHAMPIONSHIP. Dont' forget that you can order prints from Down Home Portraits, just message them.
Other games captured by Down Town Portraits:
Ardmore vs Clements JV
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The Elkmont middle school Red Devils hosted the East Limestone Indians in a double header Tuesday. Each team were able to add a game to the win column.
The Red Devils lost the first game,18-2, to East at Elkmont on Tuesday as Sawyer Stevens allowed two hits over four innings.
Elkmont's Phillip Norman ended up on the wrong side of the pitching decision, charged with the loss. He allowed 12 runs in 4 2/3 innings, walked five and struck out three.
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Elkmont rallied back to take the win in second game of the double header. Hunter Pitman went 2-3 as Elkmont Middle School took home a 10-5 victory over East in five innings at Elkmont on Tuesday.He doubled in the second inning and singled in the third inning.
Login Griffin recorded the win for Elkmont Middle School. He allowed four runs over three innings. Login struck out seven, walked one and gave up three hits. Braden Miller got the save, pitching 2 innings with 3 strikeouts.
The lead stayed with Elkmont Middle School after the second, when it scored four runs on an RBI double by Hunter and a two-run single by Phillip Norman.
Three runs in the top of the third helped East close its deficit to 5-4. The East threat came to an end when Login shut the door on Andrew Parris with a strike out. After the quick strike in the top of the inning from East, the Red Devils responded with five runs in the third. Elkmont scored on a fielder's choice, a two-run error, and a Pitman RBI single topped off with his steal of home.
The Red Devils will be at West Limestone, March 10, in a double header. First pitch is at 4:30 pm.
