Unable to play their final two games of Saturday’s Nan Carter Tournament due to rain and wet field conditions, the Trenton Lady Bulldogs have turned their focus to an approaching week of challenging games, including a visit from the MEC’s Cameron Dragons on Wednesday, the Grand River Conference title showdown with Stanberry on Thursday, and a trip to Centralia to play in the Centralia Tournament on Saturday.
Trenton will have the #1 seed for the Centralia Tournament, drawing a quarterfinal game with #8 seed Hallsville at 10:45 on Saturday morning at the East Field of Nathan A. Toalson Bicentennial Park in Centralia. Other quarterfinal games will be #4 seed North Callaway against Monett at 9 AM, #2 seed Centralia hosting Macon at 10:45 AM, and #3 seed Mexico against Palmyra at 9 AM.
Consolation semifinals will be played at 12:30, championship semifinals at 2:15, the third place and fifth place games at 4 o’clock, and the championship game at 5:45 on Saturday from Centralia.
Cameron, on Wednesday night at 5 o’clock, should provide a stern-test for the GRC Western Division champion Lady Bulldogs. The Lady Dragons are improved this season, with an overall record of 8-9 heading into a Tuesday night MEC game at St. Joseph Benton, ironically the only team to defeat Trenton so far this year.
The GRC championship game will be played at 5:30 on Thursday night from Mark Griffin Memorial Field in Trenton. Tom Johnson will provide the play-by-play call on Hot Country Z 101.7, with pre-game at 5:15. Trenton and Stanberry will be very familiar with one another, with THS winning the GRC title on Stanberry’s field last year 3-0, and many of the same girls on the softball diamond playing against one another in two basketball games contested in February, including the GRC title tilt won by Trenton. Trenton finished 7-0 and Stanberry 6-0 in Grand River Conference divisional play.
Other ‘cross-over’ softball games, scheduled for Thursday night at 5:30, will be King City at Putnam County, Braymer at Gallatin, Worth County at Maysville, Albany at South Harrison, North Andrew at Milan, and Pattonsburg at Princeton. Polo finished 8th in the GRC East, and, by virtue of St. Joseph Christian’s lack of a softball team this year, will not play on Thursday.
The challenge slate of games for the Trenton girls will continue next week, with a trip to Marceline on Monday, September 25th to play a strong Tiger team followed by a visit from Brookfield on Tuesday, September 26th.
