The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears softball team made a solid showing at the Railbelt Conference Tournament in Fairbanks, posting a 2-2 record and falling in the championship game to the Colony Knights on Saturday 10-8.
“We won enough games to qualify for state,” JDHS coach Lexi Razor said on Saturday. “We came in second place against Colony so we are excited to be going on to state.”
JDHS used their experience with a recent trip to a mid-season
tournament in Anchorage in which they played three country wise email marketing list games a day as one of their tuneups for the RBC tournament.
“We only had to play two games on Friday and two games today,” Razor said. “It wasn’t that bad. Today if we would have won in the first championship game we would have pushed it to an ‘if’ game…it wasn’t too many games, but we definitely have to be prepared for two to four games a day when we get to state next weekend.”
In their final game against Colony on Saturday JDHS there are tons of classes that are offered jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first inning as junior Alayna Echiverri singled, senior Tatum Billings singled and Nizich singled scoring Echiverri and Billings. Two outs later sophomore Taylor Williams tripled to right field scoring Nizich and sophomore Brynn Wheeler taiwan lists singled in Williams.
JDHS added a run in the top of the third inning as Wheeler doubled in Williams. The team scored another run in the fourth as sophomore Cassie Chenoweth earned a walk and was replaced by sophomore pinch runner Lily Hayes. Billings then singled in Hayes.
Colony would gather a run in the second.