THOMASVILLE – The Thomas County Central softball team welcomed region foe Coffee on Tuesday evening for their final regular season doubleheader. 

If a pitchers dual is your thing, then game one of this doubleheader was perfect. The two teams combined for eight hits in the game and scored a total of three runs. Central pitcher Laney Mobley dismantled the Lady Trojans. Despite giving up five hits, Mobley recorded six strikeouts in seven innings of work. On the other side, Coffee’s Maggie brown also pitched a complete game, allowing just three hits and netting four K’s

It was the Lady Jackets who took the lead early as Gina Morabito, who singled earlier in the inning, took home on a passed ball. That lead wouldn’t last long, however, as the Lady Trojans drove in the tying run on a line drive to left field.

Mobley and Brown went to work on the mound, shutting down batters through the next four innings. It wasn’t until the top of the seventh when a sac fly would bring Coffee’s Jocelyn Fender across home plate for the go-ahead run. A quick one, two, three inning would seal it for the Lady Trojans as Coffee took game one 2-1.

Game two marked an entirely different story for the Lady Jackets. Mobley took the mound once again and added to her six K’s in game one with five more. She had an 11-4 strikeout-to-walk ratio on the day through 14 total innings on the mound.

Central’s bats got going quickly as the Lady Jackets drove in three runs in the first. They followed that up with a two-out rally in the second as Mobley, who was responsible for the first run of the game, doubled to send Morabito and Jaida Pinkins in, giving Central a 5-0 lead. Central would tack on another run in the fifth as Pinkins crossed home again on an error.

Coffee would score just one in the game, but the Lady Jackets held on to their five-run lead for a victory in their final contest of the regular season.

Central finished the season with a 16-9 overall record and a 9-6 region record, which was good for third place. This is good enough for a playoff spot, though the first-round matchup has yet to be announced. The state tournament will begin on October 18.