{"id":2381,"date":"2014-06-09T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2014-06-11T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T12:34:19","slug":"defense-weekend-leads-way-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"Defense weekend leads the way for the Birmingham Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The saying, Defense wins Championships has never rung truer than this weekend with the Birmingham Lady Giants. Allowing just 5 runs in 5 games, while posting 3 shutouts along the way, the Giants defense was absolutely stellar, posting 3 shutouts along the way to their 4th championship of the season. The Lady Giants are now 23-18 on the season.<\/p>\n

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Lady Giants Fourth Trophy<\/p><\/div>\n

In a weekend lead by defense the Birmingham Lady Giants allowed just 5 runs (4 earned) runs in 5 games, including a scoreless inning streak of 11 innings and 3 straight shutouts on the way to their 4th tournament win of the season and a 23-17 in class mark.<\/p>\n

In game 1 of pool play, the Giants faced a tough 20 win Venom team. Right from the first pitch Olivia Renta (17-13) and the Giant defense set the tone for the day. Renta allowed just 1 unearned run and got 3 infield assists from Mollie Freeman, and hits from Lauren Cabiness (2b), Mollie Freeman, and Olivia Renta and the Giants had a 3-1 win.<\/p>\n

In game 2, the Lady Giants suffered their only loss of the day, 4-2 to Synergy. In a game where the Giants would allow their last runs for the day, the Giants could muster only 3 hits (Abby Kellogg, Lauren Cabiness, Cassi Williams) .<\/p>\n

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Olivia Renta<\/p><\/div>\n

To start bracket play, the Lady Giants were matched with the Sidewinders Blackout, a team they had beaten their previous 2 meetings. Olivia Renta allowed just 2 hits, while striking out 5 over 5 innings , for the first of 3 straight shutouts. Offensively the Giants were lead by (Mollie Freeman, Kim Livingston, Kinley Hall(2b), Hadley Andrews, Elizabeth Wheat) and the Giants had a 2-0 victory and a birth in the semi finals against the Cleats.<\/p>\n

In a game shortened by weather the Giants again posted another shutout over 4 innings, and hits from Maci Harris, Abby Kellogg, Lauren Cabiness, Kim Livingston, and Hadley Andrews and the Giants had another victory 1-0, and their 4th over the cleats this season.<\/p>\n

In the finals, a game shortened by rain, the Giants were awarded a 1-0 victory, their 23rd of the season.<\/p>\n

Despite going 1-2 with a shortened line up the Birmingham Giants 14a Boys team lost out in bracket play 5-4 in 7 innings, and was superb defensively as well after the first game, winning 5-3, and losing 5-4. The Giants are now 6-6 on the year.<\/p>\n

In game one of pool play the 14u Giants struggled to throw the ball, and beaten 11-2 by the War Hawks, managing just 1 hit by Noah Hathorn.<\/p>\n

\"hat\"<\/a>In a turn around for the ages, the Giants next met the Mountain Brook freshman team in the second game of pool play. \u00a03 strong innings from Quenton Kersey, and 3 more from Noah Hathorn kept the Phalanx hitters at bay through 6 innings. Hits from Quenton Kersey, Noah Hathorn (2b), Ethan Thrasher, Tyler Miller, Jamie Rainer, and 2walks and 2 runs from Hunter Garcia, the biggest hit being a 2out, 2 strike walk off double from Noah Hathorn and the Giants left with a 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n

\"Quenton<\/a>In their first game of bracket play, the Giants faced the Fort Payne Wildcats. In one of the better games of the tournament, the Giants fell 5-4 in 7 innings. \u00a0Quenton Kersey went 7 strong innings in the loss, and had a single, 2 hits from Noah Hathorn, and 1 from Stone Favrot lead the way offensively. The Giants record now stands at 6-6.<\/p>\n

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The saying, Defense wins Championships has never rung truer than this weekend with the Birmingham Lady Giants. Allowing just 5 runs in 5 games, while posting 3 shutouts along the way, the Giants defense was absolutely stellar, posting 3 shutouts along the way to their 4th championship of the season. The Lady Giants are now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[7,11,77,4,3,14,15,6],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-softball","tag-alabama-baseball","tag-alabama-travel-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-birmingham-giants","tag-fall-baseball","tag-fast-pitch-softball","tag-lady-giants","tag-travel-baseball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}