Lady ‘Stangs keep winning

March 8, 2012

Sweetwater Lady Mustang softball highlights

Sweetwater won three of its four softball games at the Big Spring tournament this past weekend, and is now 9-5 overall heading into the team’s final two pre-district contests this weekend.
First-year coach Bobby Williams’ squad started out bracket play at Big Spring by shutting out Levelland 9-0 and Forsan 10-0, then beat Lamesa 8-5 before losing to Odessa High 5-1 and then falling to Hawley, 5-4, in the championship game of the Silver Bracket.
Sweetwater’s leading hitters this past weekend at the tournament were junior Suede Shirley, who was 8-for-15; junior Keyli Turner, who was 7-for-15; and freshman Claire Williams, daughter of the coach, who finished 6-for-10. Junior Maty Montgomery was the pitcher in all five games. Sweetwater also played in three pool games, losing all of them. On Friday, the team hosts Vernon at 4 p.m. and on Saturday, it plays at Childress at 2 p.m.