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Everlasting Joy 5-17
Softball, baseball prosperity
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It was a season for the record books for Warren County High School softball as the Lady Pioneers pounded out a rare regular-season district championship.I use the word “pounded” quite literally because Warren County had some batters who could blast the ball to the moon, and I say that part figuratively.In going through old Southern Standard newspapers, I believe it to be the softball team’s first regular-season championship in the past 25 years. In addition, no one we’ve talked to, school officials included, seems to remember the WCHS softball team ever winning the district title so it could quite possibly be the first time in school history.I was hoping this Lady Pioneer team could make a deep tournament run, but it wasn’t meant to be as Soddy Daisy rallied in its final bat to derail Warren County. The late-game stumble shouldn’t muffle what was a tremendous season for the Lady Pioneers with a strong nucleus for the future.For starters, the team’s top two pitchers are set to return in Ashton Whiles and Maddie Cantrell.