The Lady Eagles of East Jackson continue to roll over opponents and toward the postseason, winning twice last week to improve their region record to 5-2, and 20-6-1 overall.
East Jackson was scheduled to travel to Jefferson for the final region match-up, against the Lady Dragons. Results of that pairing were not available at press time. Check www.mainstreetnewsports.com for scores and updates throughout the week.
East Jackson will wrap up its regular season today (Wednesday) with a trip to Loganville. The first pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
East Jackson started off the week with a trip to Homer to face the Lady Leopards. Maybe it would be more appropriate to call them “Blanks County,” as the Lady Eagles kept the Banks bats silent with a 3-0 win.
Next was the final East Jackson home game Thursday night, including a salute to the Lady Eagles’ departing seniors, Kaitlin Hill, Abby Woodall and Brittany Meeler.
It appeared that the match-up might be business as usual as the Lady Eagles took a one run lead over the Fannin County Lady Rebels early on. That changed a couple of innings later, as the Fannin bats warmed up, and the Lady Rebels came back to take a 2-1 lead while East Jackson pitcher
Haley Thompson worked to keep Fannin County in check.
Senior pitcher Hill took to the mound late to hold off the Rebel onslaught, and to try to keep the Lady Eagles within striking distance.
Trailing by two runs going into the bottom of the seventh, the Lady Eagles rallied to get two runs across to claim their fifth region victory.
Game statistics for the week were unavailable at press time.
