Fox Creek softball team has "very good season"
Predators baseball team reaches if game of district tournament
North Augusta – Derrick Quinn’s quote about the season his Fox Creek High School softball team had was succinct and to the point.
“We had a very good season,” said the Predators veteran head coach.
Fox Creek finished the season with an 18-7 record and reached the championship game of its district tournament in the AAA state playoffs before getting knocked off by Loris.
The Predators were led by Ava Lindsay, who was named to the South Carolina Baseball Coaches Association AAA All-State team. She was also chosen to play in the North-South All-Star Game and was an All-Region 4-AAA selection as well.
Lindsay batted .469 with 10 doubles, a triple, 29 runs batted in and 22 runs scored.
Joining Lindsay on the All-Region team were Addison Woodward, Jordyn Grant, Jada Jennings, Addie Goff and Emma Widener.
Woodward batted .364 with eight doubles, one triple, 13 runs and 13 RBI. Grant led the team in hitting with a .574 average. She had seven doubles, a triple, 21 runs and 13 RBI.
Jennings batted 397 with five doubles, two triples, one homer, 23 RBI and 13 runs. Widener batted .350 with 28 runs and 16 RBI. Goff was the primary pitcher, working 79 innings and posting a 3.59 earned run average.
FOX CREEK BASEBALL FALLS IN IF GAME
The fox Creek baseball team reached the championship round of its district tournament and even took Waccamaw to an if game before finally falling.
Fox Creek beat Marlboro County 4-1 in its opener before losing to Waccamaw 8-7. The Predators then had to face Marlboro County again and came away with a 7-2 triumph.
Fox Creek pounded Waccamaw 15-4 in the first game. The second game took on a totally different look though as the Warriors came away with a 2-1 triumph. The Predators finished 20-8-1.
The Predators hit .359 as a team
Lawson Lewis led the way with a .468 batting average, six doubles, four triples, four home runs, 24 runs batted in and 36 runs scored.
Manny Abro ended up at .435 with 28 runs and 25 RBI. Quentin Cribbs hit .403 with three doubles, 26 runs and 19 RBI. Hayden James finished at .388 with five doubles, one home run, 28 runs and eight RBI.
Will Frischmann hit .473 with eight doubles, two triples, one home run, 33 RBI and 20 runs.
Will Fountain and Frischmann got the majority of the innings at pitcher, but the Predators had three others in Cameron Porter, Andrew Dorries, Jamar’re Peeples and Kale Williford who were in the teens in innigs pitched.
Fountain worked 46 1/3 innings and had a 1.21 earned run average. Frischmann had a 2.3i ERA in 30 2/3 innings. Porter worked 18 2/3 (2.62), Dorries had a 3.98 ERA in 19 1/3 innings, Williford worked 14 innings with a 4.50 ERA, and Peeples had a 4.59 ERA in 10 2/3 innings.
