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Eagles ramp up against Lady Spartans

By Randy Lefko
Posted 4/25/18

FLEMING ISLAND – Fleming Island High softball coach Jennifer Bucklew let second pitcher Sammy Dill warm up the St. Johns Country Day School batting lineup before unleashing top pitcher Morgan …

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Eagles ramp up against Lady Spartans


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FLEMING ISLAND – Fleming Island High softball coach Jennifer Bucklew let second pitcher Sammy Dill warm up the St. Johns Country Day School batting lineup before unleashing top pitcher Morgan Kendrick en route to a 9-0 non-district win Thursday night at Fleming Island High School.

Fleming Island opens the district tournament with a first round game against First Coast before an anticipated showdown with 8A champion Oakleaf High in the semifinal rounds. Oakleaf defeated Fleming Island 8-1 on March 29, but the Golden Eagles have finished strong with wins over Atlantic Coast, Episcopal (11th in 4A) and Matanzas before a tough 5-3 loss to 5A-power Baker County (7th in 5A).

Against St. Johns, seventh in 3A with just three losses (13-3), Dill opened the game and stayed on the mound for less than two innings. The Golden Eagles could not shake St. Johns pitcher Brianna Enter as both teams scored three outs in three batters into the bottom of the second inning with Dill striking out four batters and Enter getting one whiff and some heads up defensive plays including a double play after a single to Fleming Island’s Madi Lanoux. St. Johns shortstop Maddie Wilkes made a quick stab of a liner by Maya Littles that caught Lanoux midway to second. Wilkes’ throw to first base outed the errant baserunning.

Fleming Island then unloaded on Enter in the bottom of the second with a single to Tiara Peters, en error, a double to Morgan Grimm for a run and a two-run single to Hallie Corliss to put three runs on the board.

With Kendrick on the mound for Fleming Island, St. Johns got baserunners to second and third base off a single, a walk and a field error, but Kendrick settled in for strikeouts to end the threat.

Enter, in the fourth, crushed the Fleming Island batting lineup with three strikeouts, but the Golden Eagles erupted for six runs in the final two innings for the win behind a Dill double and a barrage of singles from Peters, Littles, Lanoux and Anna Hull.