2002 WILDCAT SUMMER SPORTS CAMPS SET

Number one seed Lexington (23-8) is the overwhelming favorite to win the double elimination tournament, bringing a 6-1 district mark to the tourney. The Tigers only league loss of the year came to Milan, 6-5.

McKenzie takes the number two seed with an 8-11 (4-3) record. The Rebels own two wins over Milan this season, and will meet again Saturday at 1 PM.

Milan is seeded number three in the bracket, with a 14-13 (3-5) record.

Number four seed Riverside 10-9 (3-5) will host Camden (#5 seed) Thursday in the first round of the tournament at Parsons.

The two teams that advance to Wednesday's title games will advance to region play.
  

McKenzie's Lady Rebels picked up a pair of victories last week over Huntingdon's Fillies and Milan's Lady Bulldogs, improving their overall record to 22-5. In their first game of the week, McKenzie traveled to Huntingdon to take on the Fillies and picked up a 10-5 victory. Summer Poff gained the victory as she struck out seven Fillies. McKenzie took the initial lead as Brittany Carpenter led off with a single and ultimately scored in the top of the first inning.

Becky Toombs also singled in the first inning, but was left on base. The second inning, Melton led off with a single and Carlton also singled and scored for the Fillies, with both scoring as Huntingdon took a 2-1 lead. Carpenter led off with a single in the third and then Angie Birdwell also singled with Birdwell scoring. Toombs hit another single as McKenzie tied the game. The Lady Rebels took the lead for good in the fourth inning as McKenzie got singles from Leah Wallace, Amanda Rogers, Brittany Russell and Carpenter. Two runs scored to give McKenzie a 4-2 lead. The Fillies scored one in the fifth and two in the sixth while McKenzie had six runs in the fifth inning to gain the 10-5 lead.

Later in the week, the Lady Rebels traveled to Milan to meet the Lady Bulldogs and gained an 8-1 victory. Carpenter improved her overall record to 13-1 in the victory as she struck out 12 batters. Carpenter and Birdwell had three hits each with Carpenter gaining a triple, a double and a single and Birdwell hitting a double and two singles. Kristin Wiggins had a pair of singles and Whitney Townes, Wallace and Rogers each had a single.
 

Huntingdon's Mustangs won the battle with county rival McKenzie last week on a seventh inning homerun by Adam Parish, 6-5.

The Rebels won the earlier contest in McKenzie by score of 12-11 with the winning runs also coming in the final inning of the contest. In the latter game, the first inning found Corren Tippitt hitting a double in the bottom of the first inning, but unable to score and McKenzie had a lone single in the top of the inning from Taylor Holland. In the second inning, McKenzie led off with Jay Taylor walking and then Brian Toombs hit a homerun to score the two runs and give McKenzie a 2-0 lead. Rory Lacey added a single in the inning but was left on base. In the bottom of the inning, Jacob Smothers, hit the first of two homeruns for the day to narrow the margin to 2-1. In the top of the third, Mitchell Hall walked and was left on base as McKenzie maintained a 2-1 advantage. In the bottom of the inning however, Parish led off with a single while Andrew Maddox hit a double. After Tippitt grounded out and John Taylor flew out, Smothers hit his second homerun of the day and Huntingdon held a 4-2 advantage as McKenzie came to bat in the top of the fourth. McKenzie's only run of the inning came from Lacey who hit a homerun and narrowed the lead to 4-3. In the bottom of the inning, the Mustangs had three up and down. In the fifth inning, Holland led off with a double and then Hall hit a homerun to score the two runs and give the Rebels a 5-4 lead. After the Mustangs were unable to score in the bottom of the inning, the Rebels again came to bat and were also unable to add to their total. In the bottom of the sixth however, Brian Nellett hit a homerun and tied the game at five. McKenzie had a pair of base runners in the top of the seventh inning, but were unable to get one home, leaving the score tied at five. Newsome flew out to lead off the bottom of the inning and then Parish hit a homerun off McKenzie pitcher Brian Winston (five strikeouts for the day) and the Stangs had a 6-5 victory. Smothers took the win for the Mustangs and struck out seven McKenzie batters.

On Saturday, the Stangs traveled to Martin to play the Chargers in a non-district game and returned with a 12-2 loss. Smothers and Taylor scored the two Huntingdon runs in the top of the second inning after Taylor singled and Smothers Doubles. Both Matt Spellings and Adam Carter had singles in the inning. Taylor also singled in the top of the fifth as Huntingdon was held to only five hits for the day. Spellings pitched four innings and gave up seven runs while Nellett closed the game in the fifth inning and gave up five. Westview hit the ball well throughout the game. Spellings struck out four Chargers while Nellett struck out two in the final inning.