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Head coach Jessica Bond talks to her players between innings of Saturdays winner-take-all game three. GHS advances to the area round of the playoffs after beating Bastrop. Photo Russell Rinn
GHS Tops Bastrop, Faces Floresville By Allan Shiflet
Advocate Correspondent
After coming from behind to win a bestof-three bi-district series with Bastrop this past week, Georgetown will face Floresville this week in the area round of the Region IV-5A softball playoffs. The Lady Eagles (15-14) and Jaguars (17-8) will play a one-game series at 6 p.m.
Friday at Ellie Noack Athletic Complex Field No. 3 in Austin. GHS had wanted to play a three-game series, but lost that coin flip. Floresville, the fourth-place finisher in 27-5A with a 9-7 district mark, upended District 28-5A champion San Antonio McCollum, 2-0 and 1-0, in a bi-district series sweep. The Georgetown-Floresville winner
will play either Bastrop Cedar Creek or Lockhart in the Region IV-5A quarterfinals next week. The Lady Eagles came off the deck after losing the first game of the series, 3-0, with 16-5 and 7-2 victories. Megan McDonald was the dominant offensive force for Georgetown, hitting .640 for the series, while scoring five times and driving in five runs.
“Their starting pitcher worked me inside while their second pitcher threw mostly outside so I had to adjust,” McDonald said. The winner-take-all third game, played at Cedar Creek on Saturday, started with a McDonald single followed by Cora Champion’s run-scoring double to give the Eagles an early 1-0 lead. The bottom of the Softball cont. on B6
Eagles Run Table, Open Playoffs Friday By Galen Wellnicki Sports Editor
Ty Markee and the perfect-in-district Eagles will face Bastrop in a one game series this Friday in Georgetown. Photo Russell Rinn
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Seven times Georgetown played District 25-5A series over the past two months. Seven times they holstered their bats and pulled a broom off the bat rack. They finished the campaign with a 14-0 record and a five-game lead over their nearest district challenger Dripping Springs. They were 20-7-2 for the year. Almost a year removed from last season’s trip to the state finals at the Dell Diamond, coach Adam Foster’s Eagles will begin the post-season process again at 7 p.m. Friday in a single-game playoff with Bastrop at Eagle Baseball Field. Foster isn’t exactly happy with a onegame series. He would prefer a best-ofthree, but he didn’t win that coin flip. However, he feels that his Eagles are equal to the sudden-death format with the fourth-place team from 26-5A. The Bears, who have swept Austin Crockett and Austin Lanier in their last two series, finished district play with an 11-5 mark and stand 11-14-1 for the season. They appear to have made major strides
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in 26-5A play. Bastrop stood 1-9-1 on March 5 after dropping an 8-0 decision to Kerrville Tivy. The Bears finished behind Austin McCallum (15-1), Bastrop Cedar Creek (14-2) and Austin LBJ (12-4) in district, going 1-5 against the three teams at the top of the standings. “I don’t know much about them,” Foster said after completing the 25-5A campaign with a 4-2, 9-2 sweep of Vandegrift this past week. “We’re in good shape if we keep doing what we do. We need to show up and play our game.” Foster has tabbed senior right-hander Austin Weaver (8-1, 1.174 ERA with 43 strikeouts and seven walks) to start Friday’s showdown with the Bears, who posted shutouts last week in both their shutout wins against the Lanier Vikings. The winner will advance to the area round of the 5A playoffs and a probable date with either District 28-5A runner-up San Antonio Harlandale or Kerrville Tivy, the third-place team from 27-5A. The loser will either stay home for the remainder of Baseball cont. on B4
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