Louisville, Ky. — The Lawrence County Cal Ripken 8U All-Stars finished third this past weekend in the state tournament held at Fern Creek, Ky.
Sadie Staley, Ella Humphrey, Jesslyn Horne, Kinlee Dillon, Raelee Gillispie, Mallory Hayes, Kinsley Spillman, Marlee Evans, Laney Thompson, Miah Church
Coaches – Tim Gillispie, Katie Gillispie, Josh Dillon and Tim Hayes
The youngsters went 4-2 on the weekend and finished third out of 11 teams.
In the first game of Pool Play the Bulldogs beat Fern Creek Black 7-0 and then turned around and beat Green County 8-7 to get the #4 seed in the tournament.
In the first game of the tournament they beat #5 Prairie Village 6-3.
In the second game they blitzed #1 seed Johnson County White 19-7. With the victory LC moved on to the winners bracket championship game.
#6 seed Green County avenged an earlier loss to Lawrence County with a 19-8 victory to put the Dawgs in the losers bracket.
On Sunday Lawrence County needed to win two games to claim the championship.
Against Fern Creek Orange they came out early to take the lead but couldn’t hold on and fell 15-5.
The squad made a great run against some quality competition this past weekend.
