The Houston softball team advanced to the district championship game with an 11-4 win over Potosi in Mondayโs Class 2 District 3 semifinals.
The top-seeded Lady Tigers (17-7) will play No. 3 -Bourbon in the championship game at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Below is the live play-by-play from the Lady Tigersโ win:
T7 – Game ends
Inning starts with walk and hit batter. Potosi scores twice on double and groundout but game ends when Koch catches pop-up. HHS 11-4
B6 – Down in order
HHS doesnโt reach the bases with three at-bats. Headed to final inning. 11-2 HHS
T6 – Gunned down
Green to Evans to McNiell guns down runner at plate for final out of a scoreless inning. 11-2 HHS
B5 – One run away
McNiell hit by pitch for third time and scores on wild throw as Evans reaches on error. Houston strands runners on second and third. 11-2 HHS
McNiellโs 14 hit by pitches this season is tied for the 7th most in state history.
T5 – Another scoreless frame
Kincaid works around one-out single. Benoist records pair of outs with strong throws to first. Two runs will end the game. 10-2 HHS ๏ฟผ
B4 – 2-out rally
Evansโ two-out single scores McNiell, who reached when she was hit by a pitch for the 13th time this season. Gilbert followed with a single up the middle to score Kincaid, who walked, and Evans to make it 7-2.
Koch singles home Gilbert. Cook follows with a hard grounder that the shortstop canโt handle to plate two more runs. HHS sends 9 batters to plate and scores six times with two outs. 10-2 HHS
T4 – Web gem
McNiell makes a diving catch of a pop-up at home plate to end 1-2-3 inning. Koch previously caught a line drive and threw a runner out on a ground ball. 4-2 HHS
B3 – No runs
Koch singles with two outs, but left stranded. 4-2 HHS
T3 – Potosi answers
Potosi takes advantage of two walks and hit batter with run-scoring double and single to cut the deficit in half. Houston limits damage as Benoist guns down runner at the plate on hard grounder with one out. 4-2 HHS
B2 – First on board
Claire Benoist reaches on an infield single and eventually scores on an error for gameโs first run. Cook comes home on fielderโs choice, McNiell lays down sacrifice bunt and Kincaid follows with RBI double. 4-0 HHS
T2 – Down in order
Kincaid gets a pair of infield pop-ups and ground ball to short for a 1-2-3 inning. 0-0
B1 – Scoreless for Lady Tigers
McNiell reaches on hit by pitch but later thrown out stealing third – breaking a string of 65 straight steals. Itโs tied for the third longest streak in state history. 0-0
T1 – HHS works around mistakes
Houston commits error and drops pickoff throw but works around pair of baserunners for scoreless inning. 0-0
Todayโs HHS lineup
- Gracyn McNiell c
- Lilly Kincaid p
- Katy Evans 2b
- Ashley Gilbert 1b
- Claire Benoist 3b
- Ava Koch ss
- Izzy Cook lf
- Jenna Warner dp
- Natalie Clinton cf
- Ember Green flex