By T. Scott Boatright
Choudrant’s Lady Aggies softball did a little spring cleaning Tuesday afternoon – making it a clean sweep of their District 2-B season with a 15-0 win over Downsville.
That win gave the Lady Aggies the District 2-B title with a 3-0 record with Choudrant outsourcing league foes Simsboro, Forest and Downsville 38 on the season.
It also put Choudrant back on a winning track after the Lady Aggies fell 7-4 on Monday at Mangham.
“We had a big first inning, and we just rode that to the win,” Lady Aggies coach Wayne Antley said after Choudrant’s win over Downsville.
Zoey Smith got things started for the Lady Aggies with two outs in the bottom of the first as she knocked one out of the park to put Choudrant on top 1-0.
But the Lady Aggies were only getting their only early scoring parade started.
Choudrant added eight more runs before the opening stanza ended with Emma Bell and Faith Milton singling and Smith getting her second hit of the inning with a double for her second and third runs batted in.
Smith ended up scoring off her hit after Downsville made a pair of throwing errors as she headed to second and then third base before running home.
Addison Worley, Mattie Johnson, Kylie Willie and Bailey Grace Weaver all walked in the opening inning and ended scoring runs while Elissa Guillotte reached first base on a fielding error and added another Choudrant run.
Worley made short work of Downsville from the mound, not allowing a hit and picking up seven strikeouts.
“She can throw,” Antley said about Worley. “For an eighth grader, she’s beautiful. She gets it done.”
After a three-up and three-down second inning at the plate, the Lady Aggies heated up their bats again in the bottom of the third to total six runs and earn the walk-off win with Bell’s two RBI-single scoring both Worley and Guillotte, who had reached base off of singles of their own.
Choudrant, now 19-4 overall, will next play in a tournament with all proceeds going to first responders at French Settlement on Friday. The Lady Aggies will also play Lutcher and Springfield in that Tournament.
“Then we’ll come back on Monday against Airline,” Antley said.
That game will begin a season-ending gauntlet for the Lady Aggies that will also include a home game against Union Parish, road games at Byrd and D’Arbonne Woods before closing out regular-season play on April 13 at home against Claiborne Christian.
“We’re just playing some bigger schools and really good schools just trying to get ready for the playoffs,” Antley said. “I know we’ll be playing out of our class, but that’s what we need to do this time of year to help get ready for the playoffs.
“I feel really good about the way we’re playing. We’ve had a couple of down games where we didn’t play our best, but when you play 30 games a year that’s going to happen. It was good to see the way we bounced back today.”
