White Tosses No-Hitter, Strother Dominates as No. 4 TLU Sweeps No. 25 Piedmont

SEGUIN, Texas -- The pitching staff for No. 4 Texas Lutheran continued to dominate, securing their second and third shutouts in the last four games. Senior Amanda White (Lockhart/Lockhart) picked up her third straight winning decision with a complete-game no-hitter vs. No. 25 Piedmont to cap a two-shutout day for the Bulldogs.

The Bulldogs (10-2) opened the day with a 4-0 win over the 25th-ranked Lions (7-5) before firing back to shutout the Lions 3-0 in game two.

Freshman Serena Gonzalez (Corpus Christi/Foy

H. Moody) went a combined 3-for-5 with two RBIs, while freshman Caelee Clark (Montgomery/ Lake Creek) stole four bases to add to her SCAC leading total of 18 stolen bases so far this season.

In the opener, senior Ashlyn Strother (Seabrook/Clear Falls) went the distance and struck out five batters, allowing no runs and just two hits and one walk. Gonzalez paced TLU in the box with a 2-for-3 performance while Reagan Hillis (Cedar

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Park/Cedar Park) scored two of the Bulldogs four runs. Caelee Clark and Kirsten Williams (Pearland/ Glenda Dawson) would drive in a run each in the opening game of Wednesday’s doubleheader.

In game two, Amanda White joined teammates Ashlyn Strother and Sydney Ouellette (Corpus Christi/Gregory-Portland) in having a no-hitter to her name, tossing the 31st no-hitter in TLU softball history - the first since Ashlyn Strother’s no-hitter vs. Austin College on March 19, 2022. The performance was one walk and one hit by pitch from a perfect game. The senior from Lockhart, Texas, has been a force to start 2023, with a 29-6 strikeout-to-walk ratio. The no-hitter was the first of White’s career and first of the season for the Bulldogs

The scoring began in the third inning courtesy of a sacrifice fly from Bailey Hudgeons (Dripping Springs/Dripping Springs). An RBI single from Reagan Hillis in the fourth inning would double the Bulldog lead before Serena Gonzalez would add a sacrifice fly of her own in the fifth to cross the Bulldogs third and final run of the game.

Strother and White blanked Piedmont in both games to run TLU’s shutout total to five on the season in 12 games played.

The 4th-ranked Bulldogs return to the field this weekend, March 11-12, at Ed Kruse Stadium in Seguin for the conference-opening series vs. Schreiner. Saturday the teams match up at 12 & 2 PM before a 12 PM start on Sunday. All streaming and stat links can be found on tlubulldogs.com.

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Crenshaw

Funeral arrangements are pending for Jerome Joseph Crenshaw at Eunice and Lee Mortuary who died February 28,2023 at the age of 31. He is survived by his mother, Jackie Crenshaw.

Ball

Celebration of Life service for Billie Fai Ball will be held Saturday March 11th at 11AM from the Greater Refuge Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, 410 N Guadalupe St, Seguin, TX. Viewal will be from 9:30 am till 11AM at the Church. Interment will be in Zion Hill Cemetery No 2. Ms. Ball was an educator at heart having attended Huston-Tillitson College in Austin,Texas and graduated with honors! She received her teachers certification and later her administrator certification and had teaching tenured at Gatesville School for Girls,Blackshear Elementary School in Austin,TX, public schools in Crockett,Texas,two tenured at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX.and retired having taught Special Education in Seguin I.S.D. and served as its Director.

In later years,she married District Elder George Floyd Ball and served as Pastor’s wife until his demise. She was an avid Civil Rights worker and played as one of it’s musicians having just served at MLK Day at Central Park in downtown Seguin in 2023. She served her local community and the church’s as well. She died February 27th at the age of 86. Services entrusted to the reverent care of Eunice and Lee Mortuary.

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