By Chad W. Smith
The Dodge County Lady Indians softball team finished the region 3AA tournament with games against number one seeds Screven County and Vidalia.
On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 they played Screven County and lost 0-8. The Lady Indians only had two hits the entire game. Jaye Hilliard was 1-for-2 with a single and Tiffany Knowles was 1-for-2 with a single. Dodge had three errors on defense and Screven had seven hits. Crystal Ward pitched and had two strikeouts, two walks, and allowed seven hits.
On Wednesday, October 7 Dodge played Vidalia for the fifth time this year and lost for the fourth time, 3-0. The Lady Indians had three hits in the game. Ashton Holt was 1-for-2, Jaye Hilliard was 1-for-3, and Danielle Rogers was 1-for-3. Dodge had runners in scoring position but couldn’t get a key hit to score any runs. Ashton Holt pitched and had five strikeouts, three walks, and allowed seven hits.
The two losses gave the Lady Indians a third place finish in the region behind Screven and Vidalia with Bleckley taking the fourth place spot.
The Lady Indians enter the first round of state playoffs with a best two of three series against the second seed team from region 2, Jeff Davis. Dodge plays on Tuesday, October 13 against Jeff Davis at 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. If they win both games they advance to the next round. If they lose both, they are finished. If they split 1 and 1 they go back to Jeff Davis on Wednesday to play the tiebreaker third game.
The next round of state would be another best two of three series on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17 against the winner of the Cook County/Southwest Macon series.
If Cook wins their series and Dodge wins their series, Dodge would travel to Cook. If Southwest Macon wins, Dodge would host them.
