Lady Lions Finish 3rd in Nation!

Working through the losers bracket the Lady Lions faced the number 4 seed Pima Aztecs from Arizona Saturday morning on their quest for a National Title. The lions fell behind early 0-2, but fought their way back to take a victory with a 5-2 win. Michal Robertson added another HR that helped the lions keep alive. Heather Parker throw a 6 hit, 6 K game and also provided 3 hits in the win. Madison SCoot added 2, and Katie Gentle, Whitney Brown, and Megan Christensen each added a hit a piece. The Lions then moved on to face Chatt State who was beat by Salt Lake City. The Lions went toe to toe in a 2-2 game through regulation but lost the game in the eight inning when Chatt State scored 5 times in a base clearing double and a HR. The Lions were unable to score the runs needed to prolong the game. The Lions finished the season at 60-12 and a 3rd place finish in the National Tournament. Heather Parker, Whitney Brown, Michal Robertson and Paige Rowland were all selected to the all tournament team.

Lions Work Hard to get into Top 4!

WSCC found the proper balance between defense and offense to win all 3 games after a tough loss Thursday night to Chattanooga State. The Lions lost to Chatt State 9-1 when the bats went flat and everything went Chatt States way but they bounced back Friday with new energy to win all three games. Friday morning started off with a 6-5 win over Lake Land Illinois where the Lions used timely hitting to pull out an eight inning win with Paige Rowland's walk off single to win the game in the bottom of the 8th. The second game paired the Lions against the number 5 seed State college of Florida at Manatee where the Lions used a strong pitching performance by Bree Blevins backed up by some big bats as the Lions again won in extra innings with a walk off Sac fly by Michal robertson to plate Heather Parker in the bottom of the eighth to move on to the next game. The night cap featured WSCC versus the number 3 seed Blinn college from Texas. The Lions struck first in the bottom of the first with a lead-off home run by Katie Gentle. The spark ignited the Lions as they combined for 15 hits and 2 more HRs both by Megan Christensen. Heather Parker shut the Bucs down allowing only 1 run on 6 hits and 6 Ks. The Lions face Pima College from Arizona Saturday at 10am. With only 4 teams left the Lions are positioned to make a run for the National Title.

Lions win Game one!

The Lions exploded for 19 hits, 13 runs and 13 RBIs while beating Seminole State from Florida 13-2 in the opener at the NJCAA tournament in St George Utah. The Lions were paced by Lauren Payne going 4-5 with 2 HRs and 4 RBIs. Heather Parker also went 4-5 with 2 RBIs. Michal Robertson was 3-4 with an HR and 2 RBIs while Whitney Brown was 2-4 with 4 RBIs followed by Megan Christensen who was 2-4. Madison Scott, Paige Rowland, Victoria Frith and Katie Gentle all had a hit a piece. The defense was tough behind Heather Parker who gave up just 3 hits and 1 earned run. The Lions play at 7 pm tonight against the nunmber one seed Chattanooga State.

Nationals 2012

The Lady Lions drew the number 9 seed at the national tournement and will face Seminole State College from Florida at 10 am Thrusday to start the tournament in St George Utah. After a one year absence the Lions are back at Utah where they expect to play well and make a run at the NJCAA Title. You can catch the action at the National tournament web site at NJCAATV http://www.ihigh.com/njcaatv/ . Follow along and mark your bracket here.

Headed to Nationals!!

The Lady Lions battled through the loser's bracket to win the Region 22 and ACCC state title. Winning their fisrt game at State by beating Central Alabama, the Lions then went 8 innings and lost to Faulkner state 4-0 placing them in thte losers bracket. The road back to the championship was a long hard road as they first had to play Calhoun who had played the Lions very tough all season but the Lion offense kicked into gear and won 7-4. Next battle was with Southern Union who finshed the season as the central division number one seed played a good game the lions would prevail with a 2-1 victory. This brought th lions to Sunday where only three teams remained. Shelton State, Faulkner state and WSCC. Wallace would face faulkner in a rematch this time winning strongly with a 7-1 win. This moved the Lions to the Championship game against Shelton State. The Lions came out hot winning 9-0. This win forced the IF game and the Lions were not finished just yet. The lions fell behind in teh 3rd 2-0 with a home run. They answered right back when Heather Parker plated two with a home run of her own scoring Victory Frith and her self. Whitney Brown would then take teh very next pitch over the right center wall for back to back home runs that would put the lions ahead for good. They would score again with a Sac fly by Katie Gentle to give the final score of 4-2. The tight defense and solid pitching would be too much for Shelton as the Lions shut down their offense for the reamining two innings. The win will send the Lions back to St George Utah and the Nationals trounament which takes place 17-19 May where they will play against 15 other teams in teh 16 team double elimination tournament.

Whitney Brown, Megan Christensen, Victoria Frith, Paige Rowland and Heather Parker were selected to the All-tournament team and Heather was selected as the MVP.

Lions Finish 20-0 in Conference

The Lady Lions are the number 1 seed in the ACCC state and Region 22 tournament that starts this Friday May 4th in Alabaster AL. First game for the Lions is Friday 12 PM at Verterans Park where they will face the winner of Alabama Southern and Central Alabama. The tournament is set for 3 days this weekend with the overall winner earning a trip to St George Utah to compete in the National Junior College Atheletic Association Division 1 Softball Championship. The Lions finished the regular season 49-9 and ranked 17th in the National polls. Bracket is Here.

Lions make it a Perfect 5-0 Weekend

The Lady lions went 5-0 with 4 shut outs in Aiken South Carolina this weekend. They outscored their opponenets 30-1 behind some solid team defense and and strong pitching efforts by all five pitchers on teh staff. Heather Parker lead the way with 2 shut out wins against Florence Darlington and Spartenberg Methodist striking out a combined 16 batters in the 2 games while giving up just 5 hits. Kayla Sneed saw her first win striking out 13 in a 5-1 win over East Georgia on Friday. Bree Blevins shut down and shut out Middle Georgia striking out 6 and allowing just 2 hits. Lindsey Defee and Katie Cole combined for a shut out win against USC Sumter winning 2-0. Lindsey got the win throwing 5 innings while Katie picked up the save in her first appearance of the season.

The bats came alive early in the tournament getting 12 hits in game one versus Florence Darlington. Game 2 was another great team effort with 13 hits in the 5-1 victory over East Georgia. The team added 6 more in teh 3-0 win over Middle Georgia to complete the 3 wins on Friday. On Saturday they picked back up with a 12-0 win and 12 hits over Spartenburg Methodist and added 5 more in the win over USC Sumter. The Lions are now 10-2 on the season and head to Panama City Florida this weekend for the Gulf Coast Classic in Frank Brown Park where they will face some tough competition from Florida and Tennessee.

Strong Start for 2012

Going 5-2 in Gulf Shores Alabama, the 2012 Lady Lions got a solid start to the spring season. Heather Parker went 3-0 pitching while Freshman Bree Blevins tossed two wins The bats got things going as the team hit .325. Lead by freshman Hali Presley and Kreshala Mickens who both went 3-4. Followed by Kayla Sneed going 2-3. Lauren Paine lead the starters by going 10-21 with 2 HRs and 6 RBIs while Megan Christensen hit .471 and Katie Gentle hit a HR and added 8 hits in 18 at bats. Heather Parker went 5-13 and a HR while freshaman Paige Rowland went 6-16 with 2 blasts over the fence and 6 RBIs. Markeshia Evans hit .375 going 3-8. Very good start to a long season. The Lions travel to South Carolina to the Ringer Aiken Classic this weekend playing 5 more games.

2013 Signing Class

Eleven new signees inked scholarships to play softball and continue their academic studies at Wallace State on Sunday 15 January 2012. The class sees players from all parts of Alabama and southern Tennessee. This years class includes:

Academic All-American Team and Players

STARKVILLE, Miss. -Wallace State softball has once again been named an NFCA
Top-10 Academic Team, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced
recently. The Lady Lions was ranked second in GPA among all NJCAA division I
schools for the 2010-11 academic year.

"This is a tremendous achievement for our 2011 softball team," head coach
Jayne Clem said. "The players are true student-athletes in every meaning.

Players receiving Academic All-American individual honors include:
Graduated Sophomores.
Courtney Bailey - Shorter College
Summer Wilkerson - University of North Alabama
Jessica Bowman - Shorter College
Whitney Hood - Shorter College
Katie Pierce - Tennessee Tech University
Returning Sophomores:
Megan Christensen
Kirsten Gipson
Morgan Martin

The team award comes on the heels of Megan Christensen being named First
Team NFCA All-American. Christensen was joined by Heather Parker and Cortney
McNett on the second Team NFCA All-American and Katie Pierce being selected
to the third team.

The NFCA Academic Awards program honors both collegiate and high school
teams for their submitted GPAs for the 2010-11 academic year. As a second
component of the program, all submitted student-athletes who achieved a 3.50
GPA during last academic year are named as a NFCA All-America Scholar
Athlete.

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