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RBI doubles by Brooklyn Haygood and former Lady Devil Reagan Schmitz helped stretch the lead to 5-0 in the second.

Whipker had help on her second home run, in the third, when her drive went off the center-fielder’s glove and over the wall. Haygood hit a sacrifice fly later in the inning.

Green Hill scored five times in the sixth. Julia O’Donnell drilled a solo shot to center and Avary Stockwell slugged her 16th of the season, with two runners aboard, to center, making the score 12-0. Jayla Page singled in the final run.

The Lady Devils, who lost starting outfielders Teagan Fetcho and Palyn Stephens to injury early in the game, finished with four hits.

Green Hill had 12 hits, including three by Whipker and two each by Stockwell and Schmitz.

Seven-run second lifts Friendship past Nashville Christian

Friendship Christian scored seven runs in the second inning Monday and kept distance from visiting Nashville Christian with three-spots in the third and fifth on the way to a 13-6 win.

The Lady Commanders spotted Nashville Christian a 1-0 lead in the first inning before blasting the game open in the second, finishing with nine hits while drawing eight walks.

Angela Eden scattered 10 hits and three walks in a seven-inning outing as the Lady Commanders climbed to 17-5 for the season and 5-2 in District 4-IIA.

Norah Box homered and drove in four runs for Friendship. Kyla Scharfman had three RBIs on two hits while Eden added three hits and two RBIs. Bella Ellis had two hits.

MJ’s Hale no-hits Gallatin

MT. JULIET — Chloe Younggren had four hits Monday and Jewel Hale pitched a five-inning no-hitter to lead Mt. Juliet to a 13-0 win over Gallatin at Mike Gwaltney Field.

Younggren tripled in the fourth inning, doubled in the third and singled twice.

Mt. Juliet scored seven times in the third inning. Zoie Butler, Brookelynn Aldridge and Sierra Shoop each doubled in a run. Annabella Brewer singled in another before Hanna Stewart doubled in two. Younggren singled in the seventh score.

Stewart singled in Mt. Juliet’s first run in the second inning.

The Lady Bears scored five in the fourth on Shoop’s two-run double, Stewart’s sacrifice fly and Younggren’s two-run triple.

Hale walked one and struck out seven in five innings.

Stewart had three of Mt. Juliet’s 16 hits while Aldridge, Shoop, Lexi Shoop and Butler each banged out two.

Mt. Juliet goes 2-1 in Raptor Classic

BRENTWOOD — Mt. Juliet was knocked out of the Raptor Classic by Nolensville in a 3-1 loss last Saturday at Crockett Park.

Kendall Bucher’s RBI double staked the Lady Bears to a 1-0 lead in the third inning.

But Nolensville scored twice in the top of the fourth off Miley Norman, who pitched five innings for MJ. She gave up four hits and a walk while striking out four.

Bucher had two of the Lady Bears’ three hits.

Mt. Juliet was coming off a 10-0 triumph the day before over Christ Presbyterian behind a seven-run first inning.

Zoie Butler belted a two-run single, Jewel Hale and Sierra Shoop an RBI single apiece, Lexi Shoop a two-run double and Hanna Stewart’s RBI groundout.

Jaden Misch’s run-scoring groundout and Shoop’s RBI single to center field in the second added to the lead. Butler’s RBI single to center in the third capped the scoring.

Hale pitched the four-inning shutout on three hits.

Mt. Juliet opened the Classic earlier in the day Friday with a 7-1 win over Rockvale.

The bottom of the Lady Bear lineup did much of the damage as Londyn Loy, Sierra Shoop and Annabella Brewer combined for half of Mt. Juliet’s hits.

Chloe Younggren’s RBI double put Mt. Juliet on the board first in the first inning. Bucher tripled down the left-field line in the second for two scores.

Norman pitched 4 1/3 innings for the win, allowing a run on four hits and a walk.

Green Hill wins Raptor Classic for program’s, Sanders Knipfel’s 200th win

BRENTWOOD — Green Hill rolled to the Raptor Classic championship last Saturday by shutting out host Ravenwood 9-0 at Crockett Park.

The title-game win was the 200th for the Lady Hawk program and Savannah Sanders Knipfel, who has coached the program since day one in the spring of 2021. Green Hill was 200-39-4 going into Monday’s game at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ.

Home runs by Jayla Page, Avary Stockwell, Chezney Whipker and Taylor Watson fueled the offense.

Green Hill advanced to the championship game with an 8-3 win over Hendersonville, a game which won’t count in the District 7-4A standings.

Stockwell, who hasn’t seen many pitches to hit during her senior seasons as coaches have elected to walk her (she had over 70 career home runs), took their chances in the tournament and were burned. She went deep twice while Watson and O’Donnell each touched them all once against the Lady Commandos.

She hit a grand slam in an 8-2 win over Columbia.

Green Hill began bracket play with a 10-0 win over Creek Wood as Reagan (Peanut) Schmitz walked off the game with a home run to right in the third inning.

On Friday, the Lady Hawks needed just two innings to clobber Columbia 17-3 as Stockwell twice went deep and Page once.

They opened the tournament with a 12-0 triumph over Forrest as Whipker’s two-run triple highlighted a four-run first inning.

The week was a busy one even before the tournament.

Green Hill doubled up visiting Beech 20-10 in district action on the Hill behind home runs by Whitpker, Stockwell and Watson as the game was run-ruled in the fifth.

The day before, the Lady Hawks traveled to defending Division II-A state champion Donelson Christian and prevailed 13-6 as Stockwell and Keilyn Burns homered for the visitors.

Lady Commanders run-rule MJCA in three

MT. JULIET — Facing Mt. Juliet Christian for the first time in a few years while the Lady Saints could rebuild their numbers, Friendship Christian collected a 19-1 three-inning win last Friday.

The Lady Commanders scored twice in the first inning and four times in the second before knocking out the Lady Saints with 13 in the third as they improved to 16-5 for the season and 4-2 in District 4-IIA.

Friendship finished with 14 hits while the Lady Saints committed six errors.

Tatum Woodson homered as she drove in two runs on two hits while Khloe Smith also had two RBIs on two doubles. Bella Ellis had a pair of hits as she and Kaylyn Schiro drove in three runs apiece. Angela Eden and Kyla Scharfman also had two hits apiece.

Eden gave up MJCA’s lone hit and struck out five during the first two innings before Bella Mia Toler tossed the third, allowing the Lady Saints’ score.

Lady Bears overpower, run-rule ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ

Forty years ago, Mt. Juliet was on its way to the state championship when Danette Henderson lined a home run over the left-field fence of the Mt. Juliet League big league softball field.

It was believed to be the first time a high school player cleared the barrier during an era when softballs were rarely hit far.

Last Wednesday, Mt. Juliet hit four home runs as the Lady Bears broke open a close game in the fourth and fifth innings to run rule host ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ 13-2.

The first blast came when Aynslee Bright homered off the scoreboard in right field with a runner on to lift the Lady Bears to a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning, a frame which ended with MJ up 4-1.

Mt. Juliet scored nine runs on six hits in the fifth innings. Chloe Younggren lined a three-run homer, her 52nd career blast, to center, followed by Bright’s second shot of the day to left. Annabella Brewer belted a grand slam to center. Younggren capped the rout with an RBI double.

Leadoff batter Teagan Fetcho scored both ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ runs as she, Rylee Stanley and Amiyah Hodge each had two hits. Fetcho singled in the first inning, stole second and scored on Shylee Essary’s single. She doubled in the fifth and came home on a wild pitch. But that wasn’t enough to get the deficit down to single digits and keep the game going.

The Lady Bears belted 10 hits. Younggren had three hits and Brewer and Bright two each.

Jewel Hale pitched the full five innings for Mt. Juliet, allowing eight hits and a walk while striking out three.

Stanley pitched 4 1/3 innings and led 1-0 until the fourth.

Friendship falls in 14-12 slugfest to DCA

Facing last year’s Division II-A state champions, Friendship Christian scored 12 runs last Thursday.

But visiting Donelson Christian, coached by former FCS player and coach Laurel Burroughs Sloan, finished with 14 in completing the season sweep of the Lady Commanders.

The Lady Commanders broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the third inning for a 4-2 lead. But DCA came back with three in the fourth and took the lead with five in the fifth, two in the sixth and two in the seventh. Friendship fought back with three each in the sixth and seventh but fell to 15-5 for season and 3-2 in District 4-IIA with both losses coming to the Lady Wildcats.

Friendship outhit DCA 17-14. Khloe Smith drove in five runs on four singles while Tatum Woodson had two RBIs. Norah Box doubled and singled while Angela Eden doubled among her four hits. Anna Bella Toler also had a pair of hits.

Mollie Johnson came on for Eden in the fourth inning and fired the final four frames to take the loss.

Younggren homers twice to power Lady Bears past Summit

MT. JULIET — Chloe Younggren hit two home runs Wednesday to power Mt. Juliet past Summit 10-3.

Younggren homered to center field in the first inning and added her 51st career long ball in the sixth.

Annabella Brewer’s RBI single stretched the Lady Bears’ lead to 2-0 in the second inning.

Four more Lady Bears scored in the third on Aynslee Bright’s RBI double, Zoie Butler’s two-run homer to right and Sierra Shoop’s run-producing double for a 6-0 lead.

Addyson Willingham’s two-run homer to left in the top of the fourth put Summit on the board. But the Lady Bears got those back with interest in the sixth on home runs by Younggren and Londyn Loy.

Jewel Hale pitched seven innings for the win, allowing two earned runs on six hits and no walks with five strikeouts.

Mt. Juliet piled up 13 hits, including two each by Younggren and Shoop.

Green Hill overpowers ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ

MT. JULIET — ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ started out playing Green Hill’s game last Tuesday before the Lady Hawks did what they do best and prevailed 13-2 on the Hill.

Kyndall Robinson’s two-run homer to center field staked ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning.

Green Hill coach Savannah Sanders Knipfel moved Avary Stockwell from her long-entrenched No. 3 spot in the lineup to the leadoff spot. ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ’s Jody Atwood, unlike many of his contemporaries, elected to pitch to the future Tennessee Lady Vol, who promptly blasted her 70th career home run to center to cut the margin in half.

Keilyn Burns tied the score later in the inning with an RBI groundout and Taylor Watson singled to center to put Green Hill ahead.

Reagan Walter’s sacrifice fly in the second lifted the Lady Hawks to a 5-2 lead.

Green Hill broke the game open with seven runs on six hits in the third. Kylee Marseilles doubled home a run and Brooklyn Haygood singled in another before former Lady Devil Reagan Schmitz singled home two scores. Chezney Whipker blasted a two-run homer to center.

Schmitz went 4-for-4 as the Lady Hawks had 12 hits in their 24th straight win. Watson added two hits. Stockwell, who has 227 runs batted in, drew three walks to bring her career total to 103.

Robinson had two hits for the Lady Devils, who were coming off a 9-3 home win over Station Camp the day before.

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ spotted Station Camp a run in the top of the first inning before exploding for six in the bottom half on Robinson’s RBI double, Amiyah Hodge’s RBI single and two-run doubles by Rylee Stanley and Palyn Stephens.

Cayleigh Lea launched a solo home run to center field in the second. RBI singles by Alyssa Horne and Shylee Essary helped ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ stretch the lead even more in the third.

Stanley pitched six innings, allowing three runs (two earned) on eight hits.

Robinson and Teagan Fetcho each finished with two of ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ’s 10 hits.

Lady Commanders come from behind to beat Ezell-Harding

Leadoff batter Bella Ellis produced cleanup-hitter numbers Tuesday in Friendship Christian’s 5-3 win over visiting Ezell-Harding.

Ellis drove in two runs on two hits, including a homer, and scored twice. Khloe Smith also had two RBIs as Friendship finished with eight hits.

Ezell-Harding built a 3-0 lead through 3 1/2 innings before Friendship scored twice in the bottom of the fourth and took the lead with three in the sixth as the Lady Commanders climbed to 15-4 for the season and 3-1 in District 4-IIA.

Angela Eden pitched the final three scoreless innings for the win. She allowed three hits and a walk. Starter Mollie Johnson gave up four runs (three earned) on four hits and four walks with four strikeouts.

Gephart drives in four in 10-0 Lady Bear win

GALLATIN — Mt. Juliet rolled past Gallatin 10-0 last Tuesday.

Emily Gephart drove in four runs on three hits for the Lady Bears. She had a two-run single in an eight-run first inning and a two-run double in the second.

Kendall Bucher singled in Mt. Juliet’s first run, followed by Aynslee Bright’s two-run homer to left. Hanna Stewart had an RBI single, Gephart her two-run single, Bucher an RBI fielder’s choice and Chloe Younggren an RBI single.

Jewel Hale pitched three hitless innings for the win, walking none and striking out four. Miley Norman gave up a hit in two innings of relief.

The Lady Bears banged out 11 hits with Younggren and Zoie Butler each getting more than one.