Macon scored two runs in the bottom of the 7th inning to walk-off with a 6-5 victory over Cassville in the Class 3 Third Place game in Springfield on Friday. Trailing 5-4, the Tigerettes were down to their final out when Payton Weimer plugged the right-centerfield gap for a triple and Auburn Glover worked a walk. Taegan Nelson then delivered the game-winner:
Brad Boyer with the call on nemopressbox.com. Nelson was our co-Freeman Financial and Insurance Player of the Game, along with Glover, who was on base all four times, had a two-run single, walked three times and scored two runs. Here is the postgame with coach LeaAnn Hamlin:
Macon lost to Chillicothe in the semifinals earlier in the day 9-3. The Lady Hornets used five hits, three Macon errors and four walks to score all nine runs in the first three innings. The Tigerettes scored their three runs in the 6th on hits by Raleigh Weimer, Reece Barnett and Payton Weimer and a wild pitch that allowed two runs to scored after an errant throw to the plate. Barnett was our Freeman Financial Player of the Game. She went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.
The Tigerettes bring home a 3rd Place trophy for the second time in school history and break the record for victories in a season with a final mark of 24-14.
Here is the postgame, after the semifinal loss, with coach Hamlin:
