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MOORESVILLE TRIBUNE
Sports
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2005
MHS SOFTBALL
Trouble starting, stopping leads to Devilettes’demise
By LARRY SULLIVAN
[email protected]
Mooresville High’s softball
team had trouble starting
and stopping during its
opening-round appearance
in this week’s fourth annual
North Piedmont Conference
postseason tournament.
The sixth-seeded Lady Blue
Devils never got it going at the
plate, managing just a pair of
spaced-out hits and failing to
log in with a single run, and
left the flood gates open once
third-seed Northwest Cabarrus got its scoring underway,
in suffering a season-ending,
11-0 defeat that also served to
draw a close to the Devilettes’
season.
The outcome posted in the
single-elimination attraction
brought Mooresville’s campaign to a close as it came up
short in its quest of earning the
right to advance into later this
week’s semifinals.
It was the season’s third
meeting between the two
teams, with all three results
coming via similar manners.
As a result, the Lady Devils
were dealt defeats in each of
the battles with the higherseeded Lady Trojans.
Mooresville headed into
second season play with full
knowledge that only a tournament championship title
would enable it to make a firstever state playoff appearance
as a four-year charter NPC
member. Only the top three
regular season finishers merit
postseason invites. The only
way a team finishing out of the
top three spots can earn a
playoff nod is with the tournament crown.
The
Devilettes,
who
closed out league play with a
4-10 mark as part of a 6-16
record overall, managed to
put runners as far as third
base only twice, and neither
time did the guests come up
with the big hit they needed
to produce a run.
Favored Northwest Cabarrus wasted little time taking
charge, scoring two runs in the
bottom half of the opening
inning. The Lady Trojans,
enhancing their own playoff
hopes, followed up a scoreless
second frame by tallying five
runs in the last of the third and
pushing four more runs home
in the last of the fourth
With Mooresville remaining scoreless, matters were
drawn to a close following
the top half of the fifth frame
due to a mandatory doubledigit mercy run rule.
For the visitors, Brittany
Gregory started on the mound
and was tagged with the loss,
working the first three innings
and allowed five hits and
seven runs with a strikeout
and a walk. Abby Bagwell
came on in relief, tossing an
inning and surrendering four
runs on a pair of hits with a
single bases on balls issued.
Offensively, the Devilettes
gathered in single base
knocks each from leadoff
batter Bridget Neill and
shortstop Leah Chase, both
coming in different innings.
With the loss, Mooresville
ends its season. Select members of the Lady Devils will be
honored during the school’s
annual end-of-year athletic
awards banquet that will take
place early next week. Some
team personnel may also be
recognized later when official
release of this spring’s All-NPC
roster is announced.
PHOTO BY THE MOORESVILLE TRIBUNE
NOT IN TIME: Tag by Mooresville’s Ashley Bagwell is tad too late to prevent foe from sliding in
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TOURNAMENT FISHING
Lynch hooks points in BFL
Points, other than cash,
wound up being the biggest
catch hooked by Mooresville’s David Lynch in the
most recent tour stop on the
Wal-Mart
Bass
Fishing
League North Carolina
Division schedule.
Lynch, among the amateur co-anglers and professional boaters competing in
the event taking place on
Lake Gaston, out-fished
more of his peers than they
did him, coming up just shy
of a full five-fish limit and
using his total weight to cook
up a top-five finish worth a
welcome amount of points
to pad his season-long total.
Lynch hauled to the official
weigh-in scales his four bass
that checked in at eight
pounds, 12 ounces, and
earned him a break-even payday of $300 as well as a welcome addition of points to aid
his cause in that race as well.
Following the regular season that consists of five tour
stops, the amateur level coangler amassing the most
points will earn a $500 cash
bonus as the “Be the Best’’
points champion in a competition sponsored by major tour
contributor Yamaha. Every
angler who receives credit in a
tournament earns points, with
200 awarded to the winner.
Amounts drop by a single
point through each of the following 10 positions.
The top 40 North Carolina
Division boaters and equal
number of co-anglers based
on year-end points standings will advance to the
Clarks Hill Lake Regional
near Augusta, Ga., that will
take place in October. From
that event, premier anglers
in both divisions will cast for
berths to the 2006 AllAmerican, which dangles a
total purse of $1 million and
a potential $40,000 cash
prize going to the top pro
and a $70,000 prize present-
ed to the best-fishing amateur.
Lynch added to his collection of points in the third of
the regular season’s five stops
that took place on Lake
Gaston. He was also in the
field when the Wal-Mart BFL
North Carolina Division made
a stop earlier this spring on
nearby Lake Norman.
The $8.4 million Wal-Mart
Bass Fishing League features
28 divisions nationwide. In
BFL competition, boats and
co-anglers are randomly
paired, with the pros supplying the boat and fishing
against other pros from the
front of boats and amateur
co-anglers casting their lines
from the back of boats.
The
North
Carolina
Division’s next event will be
held June 4 on High Rock Lake
near Salisbury. The circuit will
then conclude its regular season Oct. 1-2 with a two-day
Super Tournament on Lake
Wylie in South Carolina.
Third best is best area anglers
manage in Striper Swipers Classic
From Staff Reports
Third-best wound up being
the best any Mooresville area
angler could finish in earlier
this spring’s annual Lake
Norman Stripers Swipers
Spring Classic.
Local fisherman Tracy
Westmoreland boated a
striper tipping the two-day
attraction’s official scales at
Stutts Marina at the six
pound, nine ounce mark,
more than three times
lighter than the overall winning catch but still worth a
final third-place effort.
Westmoreland, one of a host
of entries in this year’s field,
wound up with one of the
attraction’s biggest payoffs in
the process.
As for the overall winner,
the two-angler team comprised of Crouse residents Wes
Gilmore and Dean Rhyne
hooked their line on a keeper
logging in at the 24 pound,
seven ounce mark that was by
far and large the biggest of all
lunkers caught during the near
weekend-long event.
Angling took place at safelight on a Saturday morning
and continued into the early
afternoon hours of the following Sunday.
The team of Gilmore and
Rhyne nabbed their prize
near the Interstate 40 Bridge.
With the catch, they shared
the major affair’s top cash
prize of $5,066.
To make matters better,
the two managed to keep the
top target alive through the
weigh-in process and then
released their catch back
into Lake Norman.
Lake Lookout’s Mike Lundy
captured the tournament’s
second-place prize, weighing
in a striper at eight pounds,
nine ounces in order to do so.
The Lake Norman Stripers
Swipers fishing club once
again hosted the Classic.
LOCAL INVENTOR: A brand new ball game
Continued from 1B
allow the ball to travel long
distances when thrown. A
game with Yackle Ball has
been created with rules similar to that of other sports
using balls.
Littwin, who designed the
ball one day while doodling
at her desk, noted that toy
companies have made her
offers for the rights to sell the
ball, but she is planning to
do it on her own.
Littwin is co-owner with
her husband Charles of
CAAP Enterprises, Inc., an
umbrella company for CAAP
Enterprises and CAAP Web
Design. The company is also
located in Mooresville,
CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK
where the couple also lives.
Yackle Ball can be ordered
by
visiting
www.yackleball.com. The
Website also lists dates and
locations of future appearances where the inventor
will be selling and autographing prototypes of
Yackle Ball.
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