Madison Academy rampages way to softball regional
MADISON – To say the Madison Academy softball team obliterated the field at the Class 3A, Area 15 tournament might qualify as understatement of the year.
Many superlative adjectives describe the scene May 1-2–demolished, wrecked, pulverized, decimated, pummeled–any will do. Here’s the list of damages:
- Innings played: 9
- MA at-bats: 8
- Runs scored: 50
- Runs allowed: 0
- Hits: 43
- Hits allowed: 0
- Defensive errors: 0
In a performance that contained at least one *record, Madison Academy overwhelmed Brindlee Mountain and Whitesburg Christian (twice) in advancing to the North Regional in Florence.
Wednesday in Florence, Madison Academy takes on Gordo, and the area runner-up Warriors play Winfield. Both games are set for 9 a.m. WInners and losers will play again at 1:45 p.m.
Cataryna Schreiber alone was a one-girl wrecking crew. She had two home runs, two doubles and a triple with 10 RBIs–in the first two games. She added two singles in the final. She also started at pitcher in all three games, going one inning in the opener and all three in the following two games.
Madison Academy 15, Whitesburg 0: Schreiber had four strikeouts and one walk along with the two singles. Amiyah Dixon and Memphis Houston both homered among two hits, and both had three RBIs.
Blakely Beddingfield, Evie Stephenson, Kinsley Goolsby and Sydney Casmer all doubled. Dixon had three RBIs and xxx Brown and Casmer both added two.
Madison Academy 15, Whitesburg 0: Schreiber doubled and homered with five more RBIs. xx Casmer doubled among two hits with three RBIs, and Dixon and Turner Stephenson both had two hits and an RBI.
Madison Academy 20, Brindlee Mountain 20: Schreiber doubled, tripled and homered with five RBIs in the first inning. Her three hits in one frame tied four others for the state *record, including Bob Jones’ Sarah Renfroe (1999).
Adelaine Pressly threw the last two innings in relief of Schreiber. Both pitchers had three strikeouts, while Pressley added two hits and two RBIs in the first-inning onslaught.
The 19 runs tie for fourth in state history. American Christian has the record at 23 (2008), Fairhope (’18) and Baker (’05) both scored 20 and Opp (’14) had 19.
