Gopie, Kelleher help key Lady Indians domination of Lady Braves

McKenna Holmes gave the East Coweta Lady
Indians three solid innings in Tuesday's win.
Photo by Stuart Crosby

FRANKLIN-Gabi Gopie and Izzy Kelleher combined for five hits, three runs and five RBIs Tuesday night to help lead the East Coweta Lady Indians to a 16-3 win over the Heard County Lady Braves in a non-region contest.
The Lady Indians improve to 20-3 on the season with a game at Northgate on Thursday while the Lady Braves fell to 11-9.

The EC scoring barrage began as Payton Wilson singled on the first pitch of the game and after Payton Roberson reached pn a walk, Jada Savage lined a single to center field for the first run.

After one out, Gopie reached on a walk and Kelleher followed with a single to score Roberson.

Avery Batten reached on a bases loaded walk that scored Savage and a single by Addy Howell gave the Lady Indians a 4-0 lead.

A walk to Kate Miller scored Kelleher while Wilson had a two-run double in her second at bat of the frame and the lead was 7-0.

The inning continued as Roberson had an RBI single and Joiner had a two-run double before Gopie ended the barrage with a two-run home run over the wall in left center field.

The Lady Braves got onto the scoreboard in the bottom of the inning with a two-run home run but they did not get any closer.

In the top of the third inning, the Lady Indians got one of the runs back as Callie Flury scored from third base when Kelleher hit a sacrifice fly to center field.

The final runs came in the top of the fourth inning courtesy of an infield error and a double by Gopie.

After three innings in which she allowed two only two hits, winning pitcher McKenna Holmes was replaced by Camryn Horton who allowed an unearned run to finish the game that ended on the mercy rule.

Besides the strong batting efforts of Gopie and Kelleher, Wilson contributed two hits while scoring twice an delivering two rbis while Roberson was 2-for-3 with two runs scored.

The JV win is here.