Updated: TRM softball to host area tournament Tuesday; start time now 1 p.m.
Published 8:26 am Wednesday, April 23, 2014
****UPDATED 1 p.m. Wednesday: The tournament will still be played Tuesday but will start at 1 p.m. Instead of 10 a.m. Games will be played at 1, 3, 5 and 7 p.m. If game at 9 p.m if needed.
(Editor’s note: Since the publishing of this story, we have learned that due to a conflict with a team in the tournament, the brackets, dates, and times of the tourney could change. Stay tuned to our Website for an updated version of the area tournament brackets.)
The T.R. Miller Lady Tigers softball team will host the 2014 class 3A area 1 softball tournament Tuesday, April 29. The games will be played at the Brewton YMCA Sports Park.
No. 1 seed T.R. Miller will play No. 4 seed Bayside Academy at 10 a.m. on Field D. Also at 10 a.m., No. 2 seed W.S. Neal will meet No. 3 seed Cottage Hill on Field A.
The losers of the 10 a.m. game will meet at noon on Field A while the winners of the 10 a.m. games will play on Field D, also at noon.
The winner of the loser’s bracket game at noon will play the loser of the winner’s bracket game at 2 p.m. on Field D.
From there, the winner of the 2 p.m. game will play the winner of the noon winner’s bracket game at 4 p.m. on Field D.
If needed, a final game of the tournament will be played at 6 p.m. on Field D (if loser of 4 p.m. game has had only one loss). The winner of that game will be the area champion. The higher seeded team in each game will be the home team.
The tournament is double elimination. The area champion and runner-up will advance to regionals in Gulf Shores.
W.S. Neal, as of press time, had a record of 15-11 while T.R. Miller was 16-7.
Against area opponents this season, T.R. Miller went 5-1 to clinch the regular season area championship and the right to host the area tournament. The lone loss came at W.S. Neal. The Lady Tigers went 2-0 against Cottage Hill and Bayside Academy.
W.S. Neal went 4-2 in area play. The Lady Eagles went 2-0 against Bayside Academy and 1-1 against Cottage Hill and T.R. Miller. Cottage Hill finished 3-3 with two losses to T.R. Miller and one to W.S. Neal while sweeping Bayside Academy.
Bayside went 0-6 to finish fourth.
About Adam Robinson
My name is Adam Robinson and I have been the Sports Editor of the Brewton Standard since September 2007. I cover all the local sports in the Brewton area. I am a 2007 graduate of Troy University with a degree in Print Journalism with a contract in Sports Information. I married Shari Lynn in June of 2007 and we welcomed our first child, Hatlee, in April of 2010.
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