White Plains and Jacksonville play for the Class 4A, Area 10 softball title on a good day for home runs and chickens in the dugout.
Photos by Joe Medley
Cover photo: White Plains players celebrate their Class 4A, Area 10 title on Tuesday.White Plains players celebrate their Class 4A, Area 10 title on Tuesday.Jacksonville, the Class 4A, Area 10 runner up. The Golden Eagles will make their second consecutive regional appearance and second ever in the progam’s fast-pitch era.White Plains’ Sara Kate Adams follows through on a double against Jacksonville in Tuesday’s Class 4A, Area 10 final.White Plains’ Leighton Arnold fires a pitch against Jacksonville in Tuesday’s Class 4A, Area 10 final at White Plains.Under the watchful eyes of their dugout chickens, White Plains players watch the action in Tuesday’s Class 4A, Area 10 final against Jacksonville.
White Plains’ dugout chickens during Thursday’s Class 4A, Area 10 final.Explains tourney MVP Callie Richardson, “Leighton (Arnold) had some on her bag, and it was just kind of a joke we had. It started off with barking, and then it turned into those chickens, and then Leighton saw that big old chicken at Spencer’s. It just grew from there.”
Complete with underwear and a clog, White Plains’ dominant dugout chicken makes its presence felt during Tuesday’s Class 4A, Area 10 final. Explains tourney MVP Callie Richardson, “I think we all just pitched in and got the chicken anything and everything, and then it lost one clog, so it just has one clog now.”
A PSA during White Plains’ Class 4A, Area 10 final Tuesday.
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