Grace notches four RBIs as Lady Tigers bump Bibb for third win
Demopolis (3-4) used timely hitting to overcome early miscues en route to a 7-3 win over Bibb County Friday.
The Lady Tigers spotted Bibb a run in the first inning when Haley Suttle ripped a double to center and later scored on one of two Demopolis errors in the inning.
Demopolis wasted little time answering in the home half of the first. Jessica Adams reached on an error and came around to score on a Baleigh Grace RBI single. Julia Veres followed with a RBI double to plate Grace. Abbey Latham capped the three-run inning with a RBI single to plate Veres.
“We worked on it this week and we had some timely hits,” Demopolis coach Joey Browder said. “We’re just working on the basics. We worked a little more on the outside pitch the last couple days and that worked out for us.”
Ashlynn Patridge added a run in the second for Bibb and tied the game in the third inning when Patridge hit a RBI single that plate Jordan Henderson who served as the courtesy runner for Sumer Hudson.
Demopolis used a big fourth inning to hang three more runs on the board with a two-out rally and take a lead it would never lose.
Latham doubled and scored on a RBI bunt single by Cameron Thomason. Adams and Courtney Smith each reached on bunt singles before Grace struck again, ripping a single to plate Thomason and Adams for the 6-3 lead.
Grace capped a 3-for-4, four-RBI performance in the sixth with a two-out double that caromed off the left-centerfield fence and scored Smith.
Kendall Hannah, an eighth-grader, picked up the win. She worked two and two-thirds innings, allowed two hits and struck out two. Natalie Tatum finished out the game with one hit allowed and one strikeout in one inning of work.
“They’re working hard in the bullpen and they’re coming in and producing when they need to produce,” Browder said of They’re doing a great job. They’ve got to keep getting better and we’ve got to keep backing them up.”
The Lady Tigers are set to play again Saturday when they travel to the Brookwood Invitational.
“I’m looking for consistency and making routine plays,” Browder said of his expectations for the weekend round robin.