By Johnny Sanders, Sports Editor
PELL CITY – After a 3-1 start, the Hewitt Trussville Lady Huskies softball team find itself in the midst of a 2-game skid with losses to Hoover and Pell City this past week. Tuesday’s game against Pell City was what many would passionately refer to as a pitcher’s duel with the Panthers pulling out the 3-2 win in dramatic fashion, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the eight inning.
Hewitt struck first blood in the opening inning of the game after Hannah Dorsett was on third as the result of a stolen base and Olivia Faggard hit a single to left field, driving in the runner and putting the Huskies up 1-0 in the first.
Both teams would hold serve for the next two innings, but in the fourth, each team would get some offensive traction. Hewitt’s Zaylen Tucker would get on base after a ground ball single to shortstop and she would advance to second base after a Pell City error. After the next two batters were struck out by the Panthers, H Dorsett went to the plate and drove in Tucker to put the Huskies up 2-0 before Pell City came up to bat. The Panthers would even the score before the inning was over, scoring two runs. The score would stay 2-2 until the eighth inning.
In the eight inning, the Huskies would fail to score a run while giving up one to Pell City to seal the deal for the Panthers and give the Huskies their second loss in a row.
Zaylen Tucker was the pitcher for the Huskies and tallied an impressive 23 outs in the game while Hannah Dorsett was the star at the plate, going 3 for 3 hitting.
The Lady Huskies, now 3-3, look to rebound on Saturday in tournament play at home against North Jackson and Tuscaloosa County on Saturday morning.