Hillgrove 2 Wins from Softball Title

softball team is one win away from matching the last spring: reaching the state AAAAA championship game.

The Lady Hawks won their first two games in the Georgia High School Association’s eight-team championship tournament Thursday in Columbus, the Marietta Daily Journal reported:

• They won 5-4 over , a school the during its playoff run. Like the baseball team, the softball team needed seventh-inning-and-beyond dramatics for the victory.
• They pounded Region 4-AAAAA rival , 10-2. You can read the play-by-play or watch a virtual replay of the game at iScore.

Hillgrove, the 4-AAAAA champion, takes a 29-9 record into a 7 p.m. game against Collins Hill today.

A win would put the Lady Hawks into the championship game at noon Saturday. Even if they lost that game, they would have a second chance to take the title in the double-elimination tournament.

If the Hawks lose tonight, they’ll play the survivor of the losers bracket at 10 a.m. Saturday. They would have to win that game, then beat Collins Hill twice in the afternoon to grab the school’s first diamond championship.

It’s something the boys playing baseball couldn’t achieve in the spring: They to .

Two other Cobb schools from Region 4-AAAAA have to be perfect today and Saturday to win the state title.

lost its opening game to , 3-2, and will play East Coweta in an elimination game at 11 a.m. today. The winner of that game will play at 3 p.m. against North Cobb, which beat Milton, 2-1, before losing to Hillgrove on Thursday.

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