{"id":9880,"date":"2020-06-26T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:18:50","slug":"16u-birmingham-giants-softball-brings-home-tri-state-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=9880","title":{"rendered":"16u Birmingham Giants Softball brings home Tri- State Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Playing in their 4th Tri State exposure, the Birmingham Giants 16u Softball team grabbed the championship from one of Alabama’s bigger softball showcases on sunday. Starting the weekend with their 3 pool play games, the Giants led off with the Cross hits 04 team. Alyssa Faircloth allowed just 3 hits over 6 innings, while striking out 4, and Halley Kroger had the only hit for the Giants as they fell in a close game 3-1. In their second friendly game the Giants matched up with Madison Mayham. Sarah Hindman allowed just 4 hits over 5 innings, and Lauren Dill (1), Sydney Colburn (1), Anna Jones (1), and Mckenzie Cole (2B) all had hits but the Giants suffered their second defeat of the day 4-2. In game three of the friendly round, Alyssa Faircloth allowed just 1 hit and 1 run while striking out 3 and Lauren Dill (2B), Sydney Colburn (1), Anna Jones (1)Lilly Werling (1) and Gracie Reeves all had hits for the Giants in the 7-1 win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moving into bracket play Sarah Hindman took the circle for the Giants as they squared off with the firecrackers. Allowing just 3 hits and 1 earned run over 6 innings, Giants hitters clubbed 11 hits, including a Home Rune from Sarah Hindman, ( Lauren Dill (2, 1 2B), Shauna Kelley (1), Alyssa Faircloth (1), Sydney Colburn (2), Lilly Werling (1), and Gracie Reeves (3, 1 2B), ) helping the Giants pull out the 4-3 win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In their next game of bracket play, the Giants were matched up with the Lady Orioles. Sarah Hindman again took the circle, allowing just 2 hits over 4 innings, while striking out 1, and hits from Lauren Dill (2, 1 HR), Shauna Kelley (1), Alyssa Faircloth (3, 1 HR), Sydney Colburn (1), Halle Kroger (1), Lilly Werling (2, 1 2B), and Gracie Reeves (2B) powered the 10-1 win. The victory sent the Giants into the semi finals to face the Birmingham Mustangs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alyssa Faircloth started the game, and Hale Kroger tossed 2 innings of relief before being relieved again by Faircloth as the Giants pitchers allowed just 2 runs over 6 innings, and Hits from Lauren Dill (1), Shauna Kelly (1), Anna Jones (1), Lilly Werling (1), and Halle Kroger (2, 1 3B) whos triple drove in the winning run of the Giants 3-2 victory. The win moved the Giants into the championship game against the Lady Jaxx. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the championship game Sarah Hindman allowed just 2 runs over 5 innings while striking out 3, and Lauren Dill (1), Alyssa Faircloth (2), Sydney Colburn (2, 2 2B), Anna Jones (1), Sarah Hindman (1), Lilly Werling (HR), and Gracie Reeves (2) led the way offensively in the Giants 5-2 win and the Tri State championship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Playing in their 4th Tri State exposure, the Birmingham Giants 16u Softball team grabbed the championship from one of Alabama’s bigger softball showcases on sunday. Starting the weekend with their 3 pool play games, the Giants led off with the Cross hits 04 team. Alyssa Faircloth allowed just 3 hits over 6 innings, while striking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,94,12],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lifestyle","category-softball","tag-birmingham-giants-softball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/105516871_10214496917536441_3032220809266767763_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","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=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9889,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions\/9889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}