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| Titan hitter Austyn French makes solid contact in last week’s 1-0 win over Forbush. |
The Clemmons Courier
- “I was worried,” Kevin Baity admitted after being asked to assess West’s 7-5 come-from-behind win over Davie County in prep softball play last week. “This was a game we were in control of and all of the sudden we were letting it slip away.”
The situation Baity referred to earlier this week was the chaotic sixth-inning of last Friday night’s West Forsyth-Davie County game in Clemmons. As West’s head coach, Baity had watched in disbelief as a series of perfectly-placed War Eagle hits quickly transformed a one-run Titan lead into a two-run Davie advantage in the top of the sixth.
Down to the final six outs against a perennial Central Piedmont Conference rival, Baity’s anxiety soared when reliable leadoff hitter Jordan Fulton made an out to lead off West’s half of the sixth.
But in clutch fashion, the Titans fought back with two one-out walks and four consecutive hits by Erika Gross, Jessica Weaver, Julie Poindexter and Lindsay Steelman. The hits by Gross and Weaver enabled West to tie the score and the single to right-center field by Steelman helped the Titans regain the lead.
“It was certainly a nerveracking situation but I’m proud of how we fought back,” Baity said later. “But I would prefer that we hold on to the lead once we get it.”