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The Lady Devils drew into a 3-3 deadlock in the third on a Shylee Essary single. Khloe Rodriguez’s single put Beech back in front 4-3 in the bottom of the third.

Each team totaled 11 hits. Keeli Davis, Kyndall Robinson, Caitlin Greer and Reagan Shcmnitz had two hits each for Lebanon.

Lady Tigers’ Taylor tosses two no-hitters in twin 16-0 wins

WATERTOWN — Fans who arrived at the end of Watertown’s 16-0 win over York Institute on Monday got to see it anyway as the Lady Purple Tigers rinsed and repeated their win by the same score in a District 5-2A doubleheader sweep.

Avery Taylor tossed three-inning no-hitters in both contests. She walked one, hit one and struck out five in the first game before hitting two and whiffing seven in the nightcap.

Taylor also had a first-game double as she and Alyssa Wood drove in two runs each.

Harlie Phillips tripled and drove in three runs in the other game while Kay McGuire knocked in two runs and doubled as both had two hits apiece.

Friendship falls to Davidson as 2015 state champs honored

A decade ago, Friendship Christian defeated Davidson Academy twice in the state tournament before beating King’s Academy in a cliffhanger of an extra-inning thriller (an over-the-fence game-saving catch of a grand slam, two home runs with FCS down to its last out, a tying two-run single and the walk-off single in the 10th inning) which may be the best high school softball game ever played as the Lady Commanders captured the Division II-A championship.

Those players (all nine starters played collegiately) returned to FCS on Monday for the 10-year reunion. And coincidentally, Davidson Academy was in the house as the District 4-IIA opponent.

But unlike 2015, the Lady Bears did the winning this time, scoring five runs in the top of the sixth inning to wipe out a Lady Commander lead on their way to a 7-4 win.

The Lady Commanders scored single runs in the third and fourth innings for a 2-0 lead before the teams traded tallies in the fifth for a 3-1 count. But the five-run sixth boosted the Lady Bears to a 6-3 lead before the teams swapped seventh-inning runs

Friendship outhit Davidson 10-8 but committed five errors to the Lady Bears’ none. That resulted in five unearned runs off Izzy Wilson, who walked two and struck out two but gave up three homers as Friendship fell to 13-9 for the season and 7-3 in the district going into yesterday’s trip to Donelson Christian.

Wilson singled twice and tripled to lead the Lady Commanders.Khloe Smith doubled as she and Angela Eden added two hits each. Bella Ellis and Tatum Woodson also doubled.

Elliot’s ninth-inning sac fly, 5 RBIs lift Lady Bears 10-9 at Summit

SPRING HILL — Ashlyn Elliott’s ninth-inning sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning snapped a tie and Chloe Younggren had three hits Monday as Mt. Juliet outscored host Summit 10-9.

Younggren hit a solo home run to left field in the seventh inning after having doubled in the first and singling in the third.

Jewel Hale’s RBI single staked the Lady Bears to a brief 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning.

Summit tied the score in the bottom of the first before going up 4-1 in the third.

Ashlyn Elliott’s fourth-inning double to right helped bring the Lady Bears into a 4-4 tie in the third.

After Summit took a 5-4 edge in the fourth, Mt. Juliet flipped the script with five run son six hits in the seventh. Kara Hughes’ two-run single was the big blow.

But Summit came back to tie the score in the bottom of the seventh.

Elliott’s game-winning sacrifice fly was her fifth RBI of the day as she had two hits. In addition to Younggren, Annalise Mecklenburg and Kendall Bucher each banged out three hits and Hale two.

Lady Commanders go 2-2 at Raptor Classic

BRENTWOOD — Friendship Christian opened the Raptor Classic last Friday with a 12-0 shutout of Pope John Paul II and followed with a 9-2 knockoff of Forrest at Crockett Park.

Angela Eden fired a three-inning perfect game against PJPII, striking out three.

Friendship scored in all three innings, totaling 12 hits.

Claire Miller homered and doubled while Bella Ellis tripled twice as each drove in three runs. Mia Toler drove in four runs on a double and two singles. Eden doubled and singled.

Friendship spotted Forrest a first-inning run before pulling even in the second inning and seizing control of the contest with five runs in the third and three in the fourth, finishing with 10 hits.

Izzy Wilson pitched the full four innings, allowing an earned run on three hits and two walks with three strikeouts.

Miller homered, singled and drove in four runs while Ellis had three RBIs on a double and two singles. Khloe Smith also doubled.

Friendship returned Saturday and were shut out by Summit 5-0 in the pool finale.

Addison Johnson held the Lady Commanders to three singles and no walks while striking out one.

Izzy Wilson gave up four runs in the second inning and ended up surrendering eight hits and four walks in four frames.

Friendship then fell to Brentwood 3-2 in the elimination round.

The Lady Commanders took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning as Miller drove in Ellis before coming home on Lily Conner’s RBI.

Brentwood cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the second and went up 3-2 in the third.

The Lady Bruins had seven hits off Angela Eden, who struck out six.

Friendship finisghed with eight hits, including a triple by Ellis. Eden doubled as she and Toler had two hits apiece. Kaylyn Schiro also doubled.

Lady Bears bounce back from first-game loss at Gibbs tourney

KNOXVILLE — Mt. Juliet began a busy weekend at the Gibbs Tournament with a 3-2 loss to Alcoa last Saturday.

The Tornados scored all their runs in the second inning against Jewel Hale, who allowed five hits in four innings.

Annalise Mecklenburg and Kailey Glover drove in Mt. Juliet’s runs. Mecklenburg and Chloe Younggren had two hits each as the Lady Bears finished with five.

The Lady Bears bounced back with a 6-5 win over Clinton as they scored three runs in each of the first two innings.

Kendall Bucher doubled to center field, Younggren tripled to center and Mecklenburg singled down the left-field line in the second, each driving in a run.

Mt. Juliet spotted Clinton a run in the top of the first inning before going in front in the bottom half on Younggren’s two-run homer to left and Zoie Butler’s RBI groundout.

The Lady Dragons reclaimed the lead 4-3 in the second.

Mecklenburg earned the win as she worked around 11 hits.

Younggren drove in three runs as she and Mecklenburg each had two hits.

Next up was a 4-3 win over Tipton-Rosemark.

After spotting the Rebels a run in the top of the first inning, Mt. Juliet went up 3-1 in the bottom of the inning on Younggren’s triple to right, Mecklenburg’s single to right and Elliott’s groundout. Elliott singled down the left-field line in the third to add another run.

The offense helped Elliott to the win in the circle. She gave up six hits in 3 1/3 innings with six strikeouts and four walks.

Elliott finished with two RBIs while Mecklenburg and Avery Haymans had two hits apiece.

After a run of one-run games, Mt. Juliet finally had a breather with a 10-0 triumph over Lakeway Christian behind four RBIs by Brookelynn Aldridge, who doubled in two runs in the first inning and singled home two more in the second.

Hale’s RBI groundout and Elliott’s run-scoring single preceded Aldridge’s first-inning double. Hale had an RBI single in the second before Aldridge’s two-run single.

Hale was the winning pitcher with two hits and a walk allowed over three innings with two strikeouts.

Younggren and Aldridge each had three of Mt. Juliet’s 12 hits while Haymans had two.