The Grand River Conference’s softball championship game was a victim of “Mother Nature” on Thursday night, with North Andrew at South Harrison called off by the combination of rainfall and damp field conditions in Bethany. Of seven games planned on the GRC’s extravaganza known as “Crossover Thursday”, four were played to their completion, and two were stopped in progress, with the GRC’s Eastern Division showing dominance over the west, with four victories, and two teams up in the middle innings when rainfall arrived.
The Polo Lady Panthers and Maysville Lady Wolverines cruised in their contests, with Polo hammering the newest GRC school, North Harrison, by a final tally of 15-0. In Maysville, the home team won by an identical 15-0 scores, defeating nearby rival King City. The Putnam County Lady Midgets, playing at their refurbished home turf in Unionville, opened up their new digs in style, with an 11-0 whitewash of Pattonsburg, while the Gallatin Lady Bulldogs, in the closest completed game of the night, defeating Worth County 3-1.
Princeton led Albany in the third inning by a score of 6-0, with Milan leading Stanberry in the 4th inning by a score of 2-0, before those games were suspended by rain.
Trenton, the 8th place finisher in the highly competitive GRC East, did not play on Thursday night, due to St. Joseph Christian, a member of the GRC West, not having a softball program in 2021, leaving just seven schools competing in that division this fall.
Other final scores on Thursday night were:
Benton 7, Maryville 6
Mid-Buchanan 2, Lawson 1
Chillicothe 13, Macon 3
Winston 21, Gilman City 7
East Harrison 7, Grundy R-V 0
Savannah 10, Lafayette 7
Atlanta 13, Novinger 0
Harrisburg 11, Knox County 10
Salisbury 10, Scotland County 2
