Newnan eliminates Colquitt on Goggins home run, Northgate advances

Chaycie Goggins has given the Newnan Lady Cougars a spark since her return to the lineup last  week as she proved Thursday evening when she provided the only run of the deciding game against Colquitt County when she hit a solo home run with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Chaycie Goggins may have found a positive effect for an appendix operation.
The Newnan shortstop, who missed the last two weeks of the regular season due to having an operation for the aforementioned organ, drilled a shot over the left field fence in the bottom of the sixth inning Thursday to give the Lady Cougars a 1-0 win over the Colquitt County Lady Packers.
The win gave the best-of-three AAAAAA first round series win to the Lady Cougars who were 10-1 winners in the first game and a 4-3 loser in the second.
The Lady Cougars will face the Alcovy Lady Tigers next Wednesday in Covington after the latter eliminated North Cobb 3-0 in a deciding game Thursday afternoon.
Most of the day saw light rain and a pitching duel between Tori Loveless of Newnan and Nikki Johnson of Colquitt County as the two put up zeroes on the scoreboard.

The Lady Packers (19-12) had a chance to get on the board early as they had a runnner in scoring position in the second, third and fourth inningswith one out but Loveless proved to be very tough as she was able to retire the side without a run coming home.

The Lady Cougars also had scoring chances early, but the best opportunity came in the bottom of fifth inning as Chasity Meadows and Lauren Ferguson reached on consecutive one out singles but Johnson was able to get out of thr problem as she induced a groundout to second and an infield pop to first.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, the game appeared headed to extra innings as Johnson retired Arden Jobe on a groundout and had an 0-2 count on Goggins.
However, Goggins was able to dispel that plan and showed how she was doing physically when she drilled the 0-2 offering for her home run.
That was enough for Loveless who retired the side in order with a strikeout, an infield pop and a groundout in the seventh to end the game.
She would finish allowing four hits and one walk while recording two strikeouts while Johnson allowed the same number of hits and getting most of her outs through the help of her infield as they made 14 putouts.

Meanwhile, the Northgate Lady Vikings will live to fight another week after they defeated a longtime nemesis in the Greenbrier Lady Wolfpack by a score of 3-1 in deciding game played at home.
The Lady Vikings will not have to travel to far as they will face the Harris County Lady Tigers in Hamilton after the latter swept Glynn Academy in a first round series on Wednesday.
The Lady Vikings (23-6-1) took the lead in the top of the first inning as Brenna Skalski reaches base due to an error on the right fielder and advanced to third on a second miscue.
Skalski would score the first run as Jenna Pealor reached on a fielder's choice when Carly Alderman was forced at second.
The Lady Vikings added to the lead in the top of the fourth inning when Ebonee Echols reached on an infield error that allowed her to take second on the play.
Echols moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Casey Kent and came home on a one out single by Lauren Deloach.
Northgate added one more run in the top of the sixth inning as Emily Heath reached on a leadoff single and Jordan Hamilton was sent in as a pinch runner.
Echols hit a line drive to the Greenbrier shortstop, Hamilton still advanced to second on an infield error and would eventually come home on  a single by Kent.
Benefitting from the early lead was Lady Vikings starting pitcher McKanzie Peace who allowed five hits and recorded as many strikeouts in going the route.
The only dent on her ledger was in the bottom of the sixth inning when she allowed an unearned run, however she retired the side in order in four of the innings including the seventh to end the game.