Streak increases to 43 while Mother Nature gets in the way

Mother Nature has once again shown that she does not like sports as proven over the last 48 hours in Coweta County.

Saturday, the Ola Mustangs and Cairo Syrupmakers were competing in the third game of the Georgia Dugout Club Tournament at East Coweta when the heavens opened in the third inning with Ola leading 3-2.

During the delay, lightning paid a visit and finally the game and the following contest between the Lady Indians were canceled as power went off in the Sharpsburg area.

After a dry Sunday, Monday came and as expected, Mother Nature visited Coweta County again and rained out the contest between the Lady Indians and the Hampton Lady Hornets.

That contest will be rescheduled for Wednesday after the 4:30 junior varsity game between EC and Newnan is played.

Before the non-region home game, the Lady Indians will begin Region 2-7AAAAAAA play Tuesday in Fulton County against the Westlake Lady Lions who come into the game with a record.

Meanwhile, the Lady Indians won three games over the weekend to improve to 7-0 and carry a 43-game winning streak into the game with the Lady Lions.

A summary is listed below.

EC 2, Columbus 1

The game against the blue devils was the closest the Lady Indians came to suffering a defeat as the visitors from Muscogee County took a 1-0 lead in the first that held until the middle of the game.

For several innings, the Lady Indians had trouble against Blue Devil starter Carlie Neal until the bottom of the third inning as Lilly Agan reached on a one out triple and scored when Carmen Prior grounded out to Neal who threw to first.

Columbus had a chance to win the game in the top of the eighth inning as they had runners on base with one out but Agan caught a flyball in deep center field and threw a strike that kept a runner at third base and kept the Blue devils off of the scoreboard.

With time having expired and two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, Prior reached on a swinging bunt, stole second base and came home when Kelley Lynch singled to right center field.

Aniston Wright pitched a quality start with 5.1 innings allowing hits and three strikeouts while Jaliyah Holmes came into the game with a quality relief appearance and was the winning pitcher (3-0).

EC 3, Cairo 1

The Lady Indians took the lead in the bottom of the first as Agan singled and eventually scored on a groundout by Prior and the other run in the frame came as Lynch followed with a double and scored on a single by Ansley Gunter.

EC took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second as Byars reached on a two base error and scored on an infield error.

Cairo scored a run in the top of third inning but they were never a big threat to Wright and Holmes who combined on a three hit, six strikeout performance.

EC 18, Northgate 0

The margin of victory was the largest for the Lady Indians over their cross county rival since last year’s 10-0 win at Northgate in September.

The Lady Indians scored six runs in the top of the first inning to take the lead with the highlight of the frame provided by Caroline Lively who belted her first varsity home run over the left field fence with two runners on base.

EC added two runs in the second and scored three in the third as Caison Byars had a run scoring double and scored seven runs in the fourth inning.

Byars and Ashleigh Griffin, who had three hits apiece, delivered RBIs while Hanna Miller had two hard hits in the frame.

Lynch made her first start of the season and provided two innings of work before she was replaced by Holmes who tossed the final two innings.