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By Erik Harris, sports editor
BIRMINGHAM The Leeds softball team on Saturday capped off a 3-0 run through the Class 5A, Area 10 tournament with a come-from-behind win over Ramsay in the championship game.
Maddie Anthony doubled with two RBIs, Maddie Payne scattered three hits to go with two RBIs of her own and the Greenwave overcame a five-run deficit to beat the 1-seed Rams 15-13 at Huffman High School.
The Leeds High School softball team poses for a picture following a championship-game win over Ramsay in the Class 5A, Area 10 tournament.
Photo from the team’s Twitter account
Leeds also notched a tournament winner’s bracket game over Ramsay on Thursday, 8-4, and started with a 10-0 win over Parker. On Saturday in the area finals, Leeds slipped into a 3-0 hole in the top of the first and later went to the middle of the third on the wrong side of an 8-3 score. But the 2-seed rallied for runs in each of their remaining four plate appearances, including seven runs in the b
By Erik Harris, sports editor
Four local baseball/softball teams took the field on Monday, resulting in three wins for Tribune-area clubs. Each of those wins came from the softball field, as Springville extended its current winning streak, Leeds rolled by Carver-Birmingham and Pinson Valley rallied back from an 11-run deficit.
See game recaps below.
That makes it nine in-a-row for the Springville softball team.
The fourth-ranked Tigers (26-8, 5-0) extended their winning streak on Monday evening with an 11-1 Class 6A, Area 13 victory over Southside-Gadsden in six innings. For Springville, Graci Black logged a 3-for-3 evening with two RBIs and Makalyn Kyser drove in three more with a fifth-inning home run to center field.
By Erik Harris, sports editor
It was a slow softball weekend in the Tribune-coverage area, but Leeds made up for it with its first tournament championship of the year.
See game recaps below.
Leeds wins Lincoln Softball Tournament
The Leeds softball team put together a couple wins last weekend on its way to a Lincoln Softball Tournament championship.
The Green Wave (7-16, 3-1) saw Maddie Anthony strike for a walk-off grand slam on Friday night in a 5-2 win over Lincoln. Leeds delivered another walk-off hit this one from Kinlee Gilley on Saturday in a 6-5 victory over Oxford.
For the Green Wave, Anthony finished with two hits and four RBIs in the wins to go with two hits and two RBIs from Gilley. Emma Machen pitched all 10 innings with seven runs allowed and nine strikeouts.