For the fourth straight year, Centralia is the Clarence Cannon Conference softball champion.
The Class 3 No. 3 Lady Panthers dominated the conference this year with a 6-0 record and outscored …
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For the fourth straight year, Centralia is the Clarence Cannon Conference softball champion.
The Class 3 No. 3 Lady Panthers dominated the conference this year with a 6-0 record and outscored CCC opponents 86-4. They closed their conference schedule with a 14-0 win in five innings at Clark County (8-11, 1-5 CCC) to go undefeated in conference for the fourth straight time.
Jaylynn Brown pitched a no-hitter and struck out 13 and walked two in five innings. Avery Bruns went 2-for-3 with four RBIs, including her first varsity home run, and Raleigh Dutton was 2-for-2 with four RBIs.
Centralia secured a 25-6 record to end the regular season with a 12-0 five-inning victory at Bowling Green (9-13) on Monday. Brown pitched five innings with 13 strikeouts, two hits and one walk and was 2-for-2 with three RBIs, a home run and a double at the plate. Blakely VanDyke had two RBIs and a triple.
Brown reached 1,000 career strikeouts in the game to make her one of 15 girls in the state of Missouri to reach the milestone.
Centralia has the No. 2 seed in the Class 3 District 4 tournament in Mexico and will face No. 7 seed Moberly (12-10) at 5:30 p.m. today.
