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Hazelwood Central, IWA Win Class Four District Softball Tourneys
BY JIM WIENERS
Hazelwood Central High School and Incarnate Word Academy were repeat winners last weekend in Class Four District Girls Softball.
For Hazelwood Central it was their third straight title and their 13th in the last 25 years. For IWA it was their 10th straight title and their 11th in their last 28 years.
Hazelwood Central defeated Hazelwood East, 15-0, and McCluer, 4-0, to win Class Four, District Seven. Hazelwood Central was to play 19-7 Francis Howell in the Sectional round Wednesday at Hazelwood West.
Incarnate Word defeated a pair of Parkway Schools, 1-0 over North and 5-0 at Central. IWA (17-8) played Lafayette (19-8) Wednesday in the Sectional round at Rockwood-Marquette.
For scores of Wednesday games go online at www.mshsaa.org/Activities/ChampionshipEvents.aspx, select Softball and click on “2007 Class 4.” Hazelwood Central or Francis Howell plays Saturday in the Quarterfinal round against IWA or Lafayette at Ballwin Athletic Association, starting time to be announced.
Hazelwood Central is the last remaining Suburban North Conference Softball team alive; despite the fact the Hawks were 11-12 prior to Wednesday. The Hawks were 1-6 against district winners IWA, DeSoto, Francis Howell, St. Dominic, Wentzville-Timberland, Rockwood-Summit and Oakville, defeating only DeSoto. “I would put my schedule up with a lot of my teams,” said Hazelwood Central head coach Tim Williams whose Hawks were 4-1 against Suburban North teams losing only to Class Four, District Eight runner up Pattonville.
Senior pitcher Taylor Eagan is 10-10 this season prior to Wednesday and in four years so far Eagan is 48-30. Eagan has completed 72 of the 75 games she started. Last Friday against McCluer Eagan not only struck out five batters she also drove in a pair of runs.
“Taylor has always been the girl that thrived,” said Williams.
IWA — who defeated Hazelwood Central twice, while losing once to McCluer — was 1-2 against district champions Nerinx Hall, Cape Girardeau Notre Dame and Kansas City O’Hara. In the two district wins pitcher Danielle Brinkmann struck out 19 batters.
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