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March 20, 2019
MARY PERSONS BULLDOG
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HOME CALENDAR
wBItg Y,W 20
p,m.
CiT m Gi!ls cer
Lo iC nty
C-Team Boys Soccer
(vs. Lamar County)
1111g Y, W 21
3:45 p.m,
Varsity Boys E, Girls Golf
(vs, Upson,Lee @ River Forest
Club)
Mar~ Per,-
sons junidr
ace Trippe
Moore,
Georgia
Tech, com-
mit, threw a
five-inning
no-hitter
in an 11 - 1
home vic-'!i
tory over
Howard'i#;i!
MP's region-,:,
opener
on Mo -ill
day nighL~ ' -
Moore~cil~ :~
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the D6gs;
offense ith ?iii
a pair of
two-run
homers. MP
will next
head to
Howard for
Game 2 on '
Wednesday.
(Photo/Kim
Holderfieid)
4 00 p,m.
Varsity Boys E, Girls Tennis
(vs. Howard)
4:30 p.m.'
D-Team Baseball
(vs, Henderson),
~ i, ~i~ ~ii! i ~i i;i i~ii i~ii~i i,I
p,m,
Varsity Girls
(vs. Howard)
7:30 p.m.
Varsity Boys Soccer
(vs, Howard)
p,m.
Varsity Baseball
(vs. Howard)
mY, tMJ i zs
5:.$5 p,m.
Varsity Baseball
(vs. Spalding)
Varsity Boys & Girls Tennis
(vs. Perryl
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By Ridmrd Dumas
forsyth@mymcr.net
The Mary Persons baseball squad
continued its recent offensive
outburst by pounding rival Howard
11-1 in five innings at home on
Monday in their Region 2-AAAA
opener.
Junior standout Trippe Moore
had perhaps his finest night in a
Bulldog uniform, hitting a pair of
two-run homers and throwing a
no-hitter on the mound. Moore
finished the night at the plate with
By Will Davis
pubhsher@mymcr.net
The Mary Persons girls
soccer team fell to 9-2 (6-1
in region) on Friday with a
3-0 loss to the 10th-ranked
Spalding Jaguars in Griffm.
Playing on very tall grass
at Spalding, the Lady Jags
jumped on top of the
Bulldogs early with a quick
goal within the first minute.
They scored two more
before half as the Bulldogs,
playing without freshman
Abby Williamson, who was
battling the flu, adjusted to
the slow-rolling ball and the
talented Jaguars. The MP
girls seemed to get their feel
for the game late in the first
half and battled the Jags to a
scoreless second half.
"It was a tough game;'
said coach Dallas Hall.
"I feel like every time we
play Spalding, someone is
out. They blitzed us really
quickly with two goals in
the first 15 minutes and it's
hard to recover from that"
Hall said they did accom-
plice their goal of a shutout
in the second half and
adjusting the formation at
half time.
Spalding has been the
top dog in girls soccer
since they joined Region
2-AAAA, and this year
won't be any different un-
less the Lady Dogs can beat
them by four goals in the
rematch on April 12. Still,
MP can aim to repeat as No.
2 in region, entitling them
to a home playoff game.
The Lady Dogs had taken
another step toward that
goal on Tuesday, March 12
with a 3-0 win over West
Laurens.
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two hits in two at-bats, both home
runs to go along with a walk and
four RBIs. On the mound, Moore
pitched a five-inning complete
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the first offofHuskies' starter Colin
Blackwell. Alex Kite knocked in
MP's first run on a foul sacrifice
n reg=on
Conner Watson then cross&l home
plate on a passed ball by Howard
catcher Gameron T ylor,
fly popup down the nghtfield line ended th inning th a 5-0 lead.
game, giving up no hits and one that scored Eric Snow from third, Howard scored its lone run *the
earned run to go along with a walk Moore then hit adrive to top of the third' after Moore w dked
and four strikeouts, right-center that carried over the the leadoffman J6}dan Gray, who ;
turned out to be the Huskies o )r.
Moore said of his memorable fence for an opposite-field home "
night: "I've never hit two homers run to bring in two more runs. baserunner of the night. A wild
and had a no-hitter in the same da); With MP already leading 3-0,
especially in high school So that's Thorn Anderson hit a bases-loaded
pretty awesome: popup just over the mound that fell
MP, 12-4 overall (1-0 in Region safely between three Huskies' de-
2-AAAA), got off to a blazing start, fenders, scoring Jeramiah Andrews
scoring five runs in the bottom of for MP's fourth run of the frame.
pitch enabled Gray tO take secorid.
He thenL.a dval,l,~qe~ to,third On
groundout and crossed home p!ate.
on a sacrifice fly to rightfiet off "
See MP BASEBALL . Page 2B
Sophomore Rachel Martin (left) celebrates her first career varsity
rens on Tuesday. (Photo/Will Davis)
Sophomore Rachel Mar-
tin put the Dogs up in the
first half when a corner kick
bounced nearby and she
knocked it in for her first
career varsity goal.
Striker Abbie Davis added
two more in the second half
goal with Sydney Lewis (right) in a 3-0 win over West Lau-
to round out the 3-0 vic- and then host Howard at The MP girls have lost their
tory. Hall said the girls once 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. MP home match against the
again played much better won the first game against Lady Huskies the past two
in the second half, getting the Huskies on March 1years.
many more goal chances. 3-1. Hall said he's excited After Thursday's game,
The Lady Dogs were about the chance to sweep the Lady Dogs will have
slated to play at non-region Howard in both games for two weeks off for spring
Locust Grove on Tuesday the first time in three years, break.
