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Flagler Palm Coast honors softball seniors Lexi Laura, Gabriella Stevens and Aliya Buckles. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Lexi Laura pitched six shutout innings for the Bulldogs on senior night. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Lexi Laura struck out 10 and allowed just three base runners on FPC's senior night. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Lexi Laura throws a warm-up pitch in the first. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC seniors Aliya Buckles, Gabriella Stevens and Lexi Laura are honored with their families on the softball team's senior night. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Flagler Palm Coast’s senior softball players were able to celebrate a victory on their night.
The Bulldogs shut out DeLand 10-0 in six innings on senior night, Wednesday, April 17, at FPC’s field.
Before the game, FPC honored seniors Lexi Laura, Gabriella Stevens and Aliya Buckles.
“It was a great way to finish out their senior night, but we were saying we don’t want to get too emotional yet,” coach Brooklynn Jimeson said.
The Bulldogs followed the senior night win with four tournament victories to improve to 13-8 on the season. They have three regular-season games remaining, including a home contest against Fleming Island on April 24, before the postseason begins on April 29 with district tournament play.
DeLand rocked FPC 10-2 on April 13 in the Five Star Conference Tournament. Four days later, Laura pitched a two-hit shutout and FPC smacked 10 hits, including home runs by Ashleigh Pigeon and Skylar Ludovici.
Pigeon led off the bottom of the first with her first career homer. Ludovici had three hits and scored three runs. Aubree Garofolo and Sadie Schell added two hits apiece. Buckles got on base four times via a walk, hit-by-pitch, base on error and a fielder’s choice.
FPC was also stellar on defense with Garofolo making two great catches in left field and Anna Gimbel catching a foul pop from her second base position and throwing home to get the runner tagging up from third base for the double play.
“We practiced two hours straight on Monday and Tuesday and all we worked on was defense,” Jimeson said.
Laura, who will play softball for Florida State College at Jacksonville next season, struck out 10 batters and walked one, allowing just three DeLand base runners all game. She lowered her earned run average to 1.99.
“Lexi threw an awesome game, one of the best games she’s pitched this year,” Jimeson said.
