After having suffered 2 losses to Aynor earlier in the year, the Dillon Lady Wildcats handed Aynor a 11-7 loss in Dillon on Wednesday, May 10, in the class 3A varsity softball lower state playoffs.
Dillon’s Tori Grimsley pitched the entire 7-inning game to pick up the win. She allowed 7 hits, 7 runs of which only 1 run was earned, and struck out 5.
Brooke Elliott was tagged with the loss for Aynor. She pitched 4 and 1/3 innings and allowed 12 hits, 10 runs of which 4 were earned, and struck out 1.
Dillon committed 7 errors in the game, and Aynor was guilty of 4.
Aynor grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning and added 2 more runs in the top of the second inning and led 3-0 before Dillon managed to put 2 runs on the board in the bottom of the second inning to cut the lead to only 1 run. Dillon came alive in the third inning and placed 6 runs on the scoreboard to take an 8-3 lead. Dillon added another run in the bottom of each of the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings while holding Aynor scoreless in those same innings.
However, Aynor managed to score a run in the top of the seventh inning.
The Lady Wildcats managed 14 hits in the game led by Tori Grimsley who was perfect at the plate with 3 hits and 2 rbi in her 3 at-bats while Johnna Rogers connected for a double, 2 singles, and a rbi in 4 at-bats. Auh’Kieria Smiling connected for a triple, 2 singles, and a rbi in 5 at-bats. Brittany Miller garnered a double in her 4 at-bats for the Lady Cats.
Dillon is 21-5 for the season. Dillon traveled to Hanahan on Friday with the task of having to defeat Hanahan 2 games to capture the Class 3A lower state championship.