Lady Royals Advance To Historic State Championship Game

May 8, 2012

The Jay Lady Royals rallied top beat Port St. Joe 7-5 Monday in the state semifinal round to reach the Class 1A state championship game today.

Update: Jay lost to Lafayette Tuesday afternoon 12-9. A previous story is below.

Port St. Joe took an early 3-0 lead Monday afternoon in  the first inning. In the bottom of the first, senior Tessa Hendricks knocked a solo homer over the fence of the National Training Center to make it 3-1.

The Lady Royals were on fire in the bottom of the second with four runs for a 5-3 Jay lead. The Royals had RBI singles from Olivia Wright, Tessa Hendricks and Ashlyn Geek.

Port St. Joe made it a tie game in the third with a couple of a RBI singles, 5-5.

The fourth and five innings were scoreless.

In the sixth inning, the Lady Royals added two. Olivia Wright had a single and made second on sacrifice bunt by Ashlyn Geek. Tessa Hendricks was walked. Then Port St. Joe committed a grave error on a fly to right, allowing the ball to roll to the fence. That sent Wright and Hendricks across the plate.

Then with three up and three down for Port St. Joe in the seventh, the Lady Royals secured the chance at the state championship game on Tuesday.

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One Response to “Lady Royals Advance To Historic State Championship Game”

  1. Erica J Crandall on May 8th, 2012 2:39 pm

    WE are so proud of you girls and we all know that you guys can bring this home. WE also know how hard you have worked for this..Congrats.

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