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TAKE TWO!!! Esky 9-10 Girls Rally Past Gladstone
 GLADSTONE---The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Star (age 9-10) softball team captured the District Ten championship on Saturday in dramatic fashion, winning two games out of the losers bracket, 11-4 and 4-3. The title game went seven innings. Escanaba got revenge for a 17-7 loss to Gladstone earlier in the tournament.  Gladstone scored a run in the first inning as Brylee Larson got a base hit. Escanaba came back with two in their half of the inning as Grandchamp walked and Perryman and Adelynn Humbert both got base hits. Escanaba added another run in the second inning after Koellar Hayes got a one-out base hit. Gladstone came back to tie the game as Kamryn Ayotte and Londryn Koski both scored, and it stayed tied heading into extra innings. Gladstone managed just one more base hit (a third inning single by Jordyn Drielick) the rest of the way. Earlier, Escanaba built a 4-0 lead before Gladstone made a comeback in the fifth inning. Larson smacked an RBI single, Reese Lovell added an Rbi triple, and a third run scored on a wild pitch. All of a sudden, it was a 4-3 game headed to the sixth inning, before Escanaba used its speed to score seven runs. Three of them came on an overthrow to first base that saw Gabby Parlato, Taylor Williams, and Ava Jackson all touch the plate. Despite the two losses, the All-Star season is not over for Gladstone. The girls get to host the 16-team Michigan State Tournament next weekend, with most of the games at the Gladstone High School fields, with a handful on the Cannon Field at the Gladstone Sports Park. Because District Three (Jackson) and DIstrict Twelve (Muskegon) decided not to send any teams to the U.P., there will be three Upper Peninsula teams in the 16-team field: Escanaba, Gladstone, and Norway. Marquette won District Eleven and will also be there.  |
