Sutter's Moore signs with Oregon
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Girls Softball
Panthers win 1st title
Christina English belted a two-run homer and the Maxwell High softball team will raise its first Northern Section Div. VI championship banner after rallying to defeat Champion Christian, 5-3, in Chico on Saturday. "The last four or five games the kids...
Lindhurst has tough second day in playoff ouster
STOCKTON — The mood was somber Saturday afternoon as the Lindhurst High softball team walked off the field at Arnaiz Stadium. There were red eyes and a few tears, but it wasn't all from the Blazers' 2-1 loss in eight innings to Le Grand in the...
Section titles up for grabs
The Wheatland High softball team is back to defend its Nothern Section Div. IV championship — and rival Sutter is waiting for the Pirates, again. The two Butte View League foes meet for the third straight year to settle the championship, with the...
Sutter thunders on
Even when she doesn't have her best stuff, Jessica Moore is perfect. Moore, the Sutter High softball team's ace hurler, pitched a perfect game Thursday in the semifinals of the Northern Section Div. IV playoffs, striking out 16 and facing the minimum...
Blazers face familiar foe
This time, the Lindhurst High softball team will be ready for Woodland Christian. The Blazers take on Cardinals tonight at 7 o'clock in the opening round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Div. VI playoffs at the Lodi Softball Complex. The two teams met once...
Anna slams the door
Anna West crushed a grand slam and a triple, driving in six runs Tuesday, to lead the Wheatland High softball team to a 12-2 win over visiting Mt. Shasta in the opening round of the Northern Section Div. IV playoffs. "That's about as far a home run over...
Spartans win on walk-off hit
Four-year catcher Heidi Goss appropriately drilled a game-winning double on Senior Appreciation Day. Goss hit a walk-off, two-RBI double to lead No. 1 East Nicolaus to a 7-6 come-from-behind win over a stingy No. 9 Burney team in a Division V Northern...
Area softball teams prepare for postseason runs
Appeal-Democrat Seven Mid-Valley high school softball teams have qualified for the post-season, which begins Tuesday. Of the six, Wheatland, East Nicolaus, Colusa and Sutter drew first-round home games, with East Nicolaus and Sutter earning No. 1 seeds...
Sutter cuts down Winters in 5 innings
It was a tale of two perspectives at the Sutter High softball field on Friday. Sutter, which is counting the days until the Northern Section playoffs opener where it will undoubtedly receive a No. 1 seed, continued its rampage through the Butte View...
Moore fires sixth no-no
Sutter High pitching sensation Jessica Moore struck out 12 in tossing her sixth no-hitter of the year in a 15-0 Butte View League win at Gridley. Moore, who improved to 20-1, also went 2-for-3 with three RBIs in a game called after five innings due to...
