Troy splits pair of 1-run games at State B/C Softball

GLASGOW — Troy’s softball season ended in walk-off fashion Friday, the Lady Trojans splitting a pair of one-run games at the State B/C tournament.

Troy rode Lindsey Gravier’s complete game to a 4-3 win over Glasgow to start things Friday, before Mission-Arlee-Charlo scored twice in the bottom of the seventh to prevail 6-5 in another loser-out contest. 

The Lady Trojans ended their first state-tournament season 19-9. Mission-Arlee-Charlo advanced to a loser-takes-fourth game against Florence. That game had not ended at press time. 

Troy 4, Glasgow 3

Gravier scattered eight hits and three walks and struck out two against the Scotties and helped her own cause with a bases-loaded single that put her team up 2-1 in the second inning. 

Troy had the lead for good. Ellie Borgmann added an RBI single in the fifth inning to put the Lady Trojans up 3-1 and another in the seventh to make it 4-2. 

Glasgow got a run-scoring single from Kelbi Wersal with two out in the bottom of the seventh, but Gravier got the next hitter to fly out to end it.  

MAC 6, Troy 5

Troy led 2-0, trailed 4-2 and then scored single runs in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings to lead 5-4. 

Doubles from Gravier and Kirsti Jellesed sparked the Lady Trojans’ first inning; Borgmann tripled and scored on Tana Grant’s groundout in the fourth, and Halle Wallace’s RBI single knotted the score 4-4 in the sixth. 

In the seventh, Gravier hit a solo home run to left to give Troy the lead. 

But in its half of the seventh MAC got three straight hits with one out. Back-to-back doubles from Amelia Cronk and Kensey Burke ended it. 

Gravier went the distance, allowing 12 hits, three walks and three earned runs in 6 1-3 innings. She struck out four. 

State B/C 

May 22-24, Glasgow 

Thursday

Shepherd 16, Thompson Falls-Noxon 0 

Mission-Arlee-Charlo 6, Huntley Project 5 

Florence 17, Glasgow 3 

Manhattan 15, Troy 0 

Shepherd 12, MAC 1 

Manhattan 3, Florence 2 

Florence (24-2) vs. Manhattan (18-7), late 

Friday

Huntley Project 7, Thompson Falls-Noxon 5 

Troy 4, Glasgow 3 

Florence 17, Huntley Project 6 

MAC 6, Troy 5 

Shepherd 9, Manhattan 1, semifinal 

Game 12: Florence (25-3) vs. MAC (21-7), loser fourth, late 

Saturday

Game 13: Winner 12 vs. Manhattan (19-8), 9 a.m., semifinal 

Game 14: Shepherd (22-0) vs. Winner 13, 11 a.m., championship 

Game 15: if necessary.