West County To Play For Class Two Spring Softball Championship

Logo courtesy of the school

(Springfield) West County set up a championship game with Mt. Vernon with a 2-0 semifinal victory over Ava at the Killian Softball Complex in Springfield.

After three and half innings of zeroes, West County finally dented the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth…

Ava pressed for the tie or the lead in the sixth, but Gracie Wright got out of the jam….

Wright threw all seven innings of shutout ball. She struck out 17.
Grace Barton scored on a Lexi Hedgcorth double in the bottom of the 6th to to make it 2-0.
Ava brought the go ahead run to the plate in the 7th…

Coach C.J. Wright says he envisioned his team could be here…

Coach Wright says Gracie Wright may have thrown her finest game…

Mt. Vernon comes in at 36-1 and beat West County 11-1 on April 1st. The Mountaineers have won 28 in a row. Coach Wright does not expect to shutout out Mt. Vernon…

West County enters the championship game at 24-3. The Bulldogs have won 15 games in a row. We’ll broadcast the Class Two championship on AM 800 KREI with around a 1:00 Fliegs Equipment Pregame Show.

Full interview with C.J. Wright