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Hewitt Trussville girls win 2023 7A State Softball Championship
Huskies win the 2019 7A State Softball Championship (Photo by Ron / Burkett Tribune) By Johnny Sanders Sports Editor
OXFORD – The best teams in the state visited Oxford’s Choccolocco Park this weekend for the Alabama softball state playoffs. Despite a Friday afternoon loss, the Hewitt Trussville Huskies solidified themselves, for the third time in the past four state softball championships, as the state’s best team on Saturday night with back-to-back wins over the Fairhope Pirates. The Huskies started the weekend going 2-1 to start the tournament. They beat Daph-
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ne in game one by a score of 3-2 on a walk-off grounder by Gracie Reeves that drove home Ryleigh Wood for the winning run. The second game would not be nearly as dramatic as the Huskies made short work of the Central Red Devils 6-0. Sara Phillips pitched a 3-hit shutout and multiple players contributed from the plate in the win. Hewitt would then run into the Fairhope Pirates in the third game of the day, falling 1-0 in a game that saw the Pirates score in the opening inning and the remainder of the game was a pitchers’ duel in which
Members of the Hewitt-Trussville softball team pose for a selfie following the Huskies’ state championship win over Fairhope on May 21, 2021. (Photo by Ron Burkett)
neither team could score. Going into day two, the Huskies would find themselves playing for their lives, digging out of the loser’s bracket and taking the hard road to the blue map. The task was a daunting one, but the Huskies were built for such a challenge. In game one on Saturday morning, the Huskies took on the Sparkman Senators. Hewitt scored methodically over the Senators, putting up one run in the first, second and fourth innings and getting a 2-run sixth to seal the
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deal. Sara Phillips continued her brilliant season, getting the win with a 3-hit shutout and striking out 7 before Kate Hicks came in to finish it off, allowing no hits nor runs and striking out 2. Olivia Faggard would go 3-of-4 from the plate with 2 RBI in the game and that would not be the last we would hear from her. The second game would be the first of two against Fairhope that the Huskies would need to win in order to see their goal of being state champs become reality. The game would see 3 scoreless
Hewitt-Trussville head coach Taylor Burt addresses her team moments after the Huskies finished the 2022 season as AHSAA 7A runners-up. (Photo by Bobby Mathews)
innings before Hewitt’s bats came to life in the fourth inning, where they put up 4 runs. Fairhope would manage just 1 run in the fifth before Hewitt got another one across the plate in the sixth to make it 5-1 heading into the final inning of play. Hewitt would add 2 runs in the seventh and, despite Fairhope’s best effort to make a comeback, their 3 runs in the bottom of the seventh would not be enough as the Huskies would get the 7-4 win to force another game between the two teams. Phillips would get the win, going 5
innings and allowing just one run on 7 hits and striking out 6. Zaylen Tucker and Kate Hicks would finish the game off for the Huskies, allowing a combined 5 hits and just 3 runs while striking out 2. In the final game of the day, these two teams would face off for the third time this weekend. The game did not start very favorable for the Huskies as Fairhope would jump out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Hewitt would not get any runs across the plate in See DYNASTY, Page 24
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