May 21, 2025
By: Dwayne Page
The DCHS Tigerettes have advanced in the winner’s bracket of the Class 3A state softball tournament after shutting out Unicoi County 1 to 0 Wednesday afternoon in the spring fling at Murfreesboro.
(View revised Class 3A state softball tournament bracket at link below)
DeKalb County will face either Unicoi County or McNairy Central Thursday, May 22 at 11 a.m. at McKnight Field# 1 in Murfreesboro. WJLE will have LIVE coverage of the game on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and on the LIVE audio stream at www.wjle.com.
The Tigerettes are undefeated at 2-0 in this double elimination state tournament after first beating McNairy Central 4-2 Wednesday morning on a 2-run walk off homerun by Hannah Brown in the bottom of the 8th inning.
Tigerette Pitcher Kora Kilgore pitched a one hit shutout through 7 innings against Unicoi County and had 17 strikeouts in the game.
For the Tigerettes, Zaleigh Bain had a single, a double, and scored the only run of the game in the bottom of the 4th inning. Bryna Pelham, Kora Kilgore, Tatum Young and Sophie Adcock each singled.
The Tigerettes improve to 25-5-1 on the season.