The first Thursday of this month, the Lady Rebels softball team traveled to Norcross to take on the Lady Spartans. Earlier in the season, GAC traveled to take on Fannin at their home field where the Rebels defeated them 6-3. Two games before the matchup at Fannin, the Rebels endured a 3-2 loss to the Dawson County Tigers. The day before the matchup at Fannin County, the Lady Spartans took on the same team where they won 7-0. The Lady Spartans were looking to continue their winning streak and redeem themselves from the first time they played the Rebels. Fannin had just come from an 11-8 loss at Murray County and was hungry for a win.

GAC got an early lead in the first inning with a score of 2-1 and hoped to hold onto it for the rest of the game. You could tell each team wanted to win just as badly as the other through the intensity that showed on the field. The score remained the same in the second inning where both teams managed to hold the other on defense. Fannin was able to add another run to their score in the third inning to tie up the game, just to have the Spartans to pull ahead by putting three more runs on the board.

It was an intense game of back and forth with each team fighting until the end. The Rebels finally started to put it all together on offense and defense in the last two innings. They held the Spartans on defense by not allowing any runs to cross the plate in the last two innings while Fannin racked up on hits. In the sixth inning, the Lady Rebels scored four and continued the trend in the seventh by adding three more runs. Fannin’s bats were hot throughout the night as they got twelve hits and GAC got ten. On defense however, the Lady Rebels made three errors while the Lady Spartans only made one. Amelia Sneed made up for those errors on the mound with an amazing night of pitching. Sneed pitched all seven innings for Fannin and had four strikeouts.

After a long seven innings of play, Fannin walked away with a 9-5 victory over GAC.  The Rebels win put their overall record at 5-8 and their region record at 3-3.