Softball Notebook: Grand Saline’s Alissa Fugate, Arp’s Ja’Neciya Potts, Troup’s Taylor Gillispie take weekly honors
Published 1:51 pm Tuesday, March 12, 2024
- Troup’s Taylor Gillispie (Contributed photo)
Grand Saline’s Alissa Fugate, Arp’s Ja’Neciya Potts and Troup’s Taylor Gillispie have earned Tyler Morning Telegraph Softball Player of the Week honors for games played March 4-9.
Potts and Fugate are the Hitters of the Week, and Gillispie is the Pitcher of the Week.
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Potts went 7-for-7 (1.000) with a double, four RBIs, six runs, two walks and 3-for-3 on stolen bases.
Fugate went 5-for-5 (1.000) with two triples, a double, six RBIs, three runs, a walk and a stolen bases.
Gillispie struck out 35 batters, going 1-1, allowing three runs on four hits with 10 walks in 13.2 innings.
In other outstanding performances in the area last week (nominated by coaches):
PITCHING
Bullard’s Anistyn Foster struck out 13 batters in eight innings with a 2.62 ERA.
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Mineola’s Jadelyn Marshall picked up two wins, allowing three runs on nine hits with 14 strikeouts and nine walks with a 2.33 ERA.
Whitehouse’s Elli Green struck out five batters, allowed one hit and had a .071 batting average against.
HITTING
Tyler Legacy’s Re’Naa Hicks went 3-for-4 (.750) with four runs and four stolen bases. Reese Neely went 3-for-4 (.750) with a double, a triple, two RBIs and two runs. Kylee Tapia went 2-for-3 (.667) with a grand slam, six RBIs and three runs.
Bullard’s Dakota Payne hit .500 with two singles and a run scored against Canton and Melissa.
Grand Saline sophomore Kolbi Phillips hit .667 with two singles, a double, two runs, two walks and a sacrifice bunt.
Mineola’s Kaitlyn McMahon went 4-for-8 (.500) with a double, six runs and two walks. Caroline Castleberry went 3-for-7 (.429) with five RBIs, two runs and two walks.
Troup’s Bailey Blanton went 4-for-7 (.571) with a home run, two doubles, four RBIs, two runs, a walk and two stolen bases. Taylor Gillispie went 4-for-7 (.571) with a triple, two RBIs, four runs and two stolen bases. Shiloh Sluder went 4-for-7 (.571) with four doubles, two RBIs, four runs and a stolen bases. MaKayla Spencer went 3-for-6 (.500) with two doubles, four RBIs and two runs.
Whitehouse’s Kate Jones hit .714 with five hits, one RBI, four runs, a walk and three stolen bases, giving her 100 stolen bases for her career.
East Texas teams ranked in the Texas Girls Coaches Association rankings are Van (18-2) No. 10 and Henderson (12-6) No. 25 in 4A; DeKalb (9-1) No. 5, Hooks (15-3-1) No. 11, Rains (15-5-1) No. 17, Diboll (12-4-1) No. 19 and White Oak (14-5) No. 25 in 3A; and Como-Pickton (15-2) No. 6, Beckville (15-3-2) No. 8, Brookeland (7-1) No. 13, Lovelady (8-2-1) No. 17, Groveton (13-4-1) No. 19, Kerens (16-5) No. 20, and Alto (10-7-1) No. 23 in 2A/1A.