Varsity Softball

Varsity Softball – OCHSSPORTS last update on the softball girls was their 7-3 win over Putnam County.  Since then the Lady Patriots have played in a three day tournament in Danielsville and traveled to Union County.  Today they travel to Washington-Wilkes. 

The tournament didn’t go so well for the Patriots; however, they were playing 4, 5 and 6A schools and came away with a win over Lumpkin County (8-AAAA). 

Tuesday of this week the softball girls traveled to Union County to take on Panthers in their first region game of the season.  Until Tuesday the Panthers had a 6-1 record.  OC put a 2 in the Panther’s loss column with a 6-5 win.  Today they travel to Washington-Wilkes (3-3 overall, 0-1 region) to take on the Tigers in another region game.   

On Saturday, August 25^th, OC hosts Athens Christian at 10:00am.  OC lost to Athens Christian in the Danielsville tournament 4-1 and have a chance to return the favor Saturday.  Everyone should turn out Saturday to support the Lady Patriots.

Update - The lady Patriots lost a close one to WW on Thursday 2-1.  Don't forget, they play again Saturday against Athens Christian.

Also, both high school and middle school cross country will be at Athens Christian on Saturday. 

Update to the Update - Both the Union County and Washington-Wilkes game went into extra innings.   Rebekah LaFleur said today that both games were decided under the International Tie Breaker (ITB) rules for softball.  Those rules state: Under this rule, each team starts the inning with the player who completed the last official at bat, as a base runner on second base. Each subsequent inning will start the same until a winner has been determined.   Softball stops at 7 innings and ITB rules take over.  OC won against Union County using this procedure and lost to Washington-Wilkes under the same rules.