Red Boiling Springs Earns Senior Night Victory Over Jackson County, 17-1

by Rusty Ellis

RED BOILING SPRINGS – The Red Boiling Springs Lady Bulldogs used a 10-run first inning to pull away early in a 17-1 district victory over Jackson County on Thursday evening for their Senior Night.

“The past week, we’ve been working on our hitting and driving the ball, and I think we did a good job of that tonight,” said RBS head coach Savannah Link. “Cutting down on the errors we’ve been committing, just some really easy errors we shouldn’t be having, I think they cut down on those tonight so they did a good job overall.”

Riley Bray and Alleigh Davenport drove in the first three runs of the game with back-to-back singles in the first. A pair of errors allowed two more runs to score to make it 5-0, before a Sara Link triple plated two more to run the score to 7-0.

Alie Jenkins belted an inside-the-park home run to make it a 9-0 ballgame, and one more error allowed the final run of the inning to score, as the game moved to the second with a 10-0 score. Jackson County struck for their lone run of the game in the second inning, but two more runs in the second and a five-run third inning ended the game early with a final score of 17-1.

Link finished the game in the circle with three innings of one-run ball on three hits, one walk and two strikeouts. She also had an excellent game at the plate, going 3-4 with five RBIs.

The win served as the perfect way for Link’s team to honor their seniors Emma Woodcock and Alleigh Davenport, as she says those two have given their everything to help the program improve.

“They’ve meant a lot to me,” Link said. “Alleigh Davenport has really helped build this program up, and Emma Woodcock came straight out of basketball and hadn’t really played softball, and she dove all in. For them going all in, it just means a lot to me as a coach, and it means a lot to this team.”

The regular season is winding down, as Red Boiling Springs will head to Trousdale County on Thursday with only a few games left on the schedule.

“We’ve got to keep driving the ball and I want these girls to come into the dugout hyped for their team,” Link said. “That’s a huge part of softball and I want them to embrace it. That really means something in tournament time.”