Lady Jackets lose 2, then win 2 in playoffs
Jeff Davis High’s softball team closed out its regular season last week with a pair of road losses but they finished high enough in the playoff rankings to earn a home series for the first round of the 2026 State Playoffs.
The Lady Jackets fell to Emanuel County Institute 6-1 last Tuesday in Twin City and dropped a 4-0 game to Coffee Thursday in Douglas.
Jeff Davis, 15-15 and seeded No. 14 in the playoffs, hosted 19th-seeded Oglethorpe County (15-10) yesterday (Tuesday) in the 1st round of the playoffs. The winner of that series will play No. 3 seeded Cook High School Oct. 19-20 in Adel. Cook defeated Dodge County 8-0, 9-1 in the 1st round Monday in Adel to improve to 26-2.
Tuesday in Twin City, the Lady Jackets and the Lady Bulldogs were tied 1-1 after 4 1/2 innings.
ECI scored 1st with an unearned run in the bottom of the 4th. Ava Bohannon’s bases loaded sacrifice fly in the top of the 5th tied the game.
But from there, the Lady Bulldogs put 5 more runs on the board and JD couldn’t score again.
Gabby Taylor had the hot bat for Jeff Davis, going 3-for-3 with 3 singles. Bohannon had a double and an RBI, and Abby Williams, Savanna Robinette, Mikelynn Jones and Mattie Walsh all singled.
Briley Reagin took the loss. She pitched 5 innings, giving up 4 runs on 8 hits, walking 3, hitting one and striking out 3. Taylor pitched one inning, yielding 2 runs on 3 hits, walking none, hitting one and striking out 1.
Thursday in Douglas, Jeff Davis out-hit Coffee 6-5 but couldn’t get any runs across the plate in the 4-0 loss.
Coffee scored all its runs in the 1st 3 innings and held on for the win.
The Lady Jackets got the lead batter on base in the 1st, 3rd and 4th innings, and had 2 runners on base in the 2nd and 3rd innings, but couldn’t get clutch hits when they needed them.
Bohannon and Robinette had 2 singles each, and Jones and Madison Joyce had one single each.
Anna Grace Alligood started on the mound and took the loss. She went 1 2/3 innings, gave up only one earned run on 4 hits, walked none and struck out none. Taylor pitched 1/3 inning, giving up an unearned run on one hit, a walk and no strikeouts. Reagin closed out the final 4 innings, blanking the Lady Trojans on no hits, one walk and 3 strikeouts.
Score by innings:
JDHS 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -1
ECI 0 0 0 1 3 2 x -6
JDHS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0
CHS 1 2 1 0 0 0 x -0
BULLETIN!
Jeff Davis High’s softball team defeated Oglethorpe County 10-1 and 12-4 Tuesday to advance to the 2nd round of the State Playoffs. The Lady Jackets will face No. 3 seeded Cook next week in Adel.
