SOFTBALL _2019 DEKALB COUNTY_ http://www.dekalbschoolsga.org/athletics/softball/ $2.00 1 DEKALB COUNTY SOFTBALL GUIDE DEKALB COUNTY FACTS CONTENTS Address: 5829 Memorial Drive Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083 Fast-pitch softball history 2 Phone Number (678) 676-1821 2018 season in review 3 Location Northeast Atlanta Arabia Mountain 4 Number of High Schools Nineteen Cedar Grove 5 Chamblee 6 DIRECTORY Clarkston 7 Superintendent Dr. R. Stephen Green Columbia 8 Athletic Director James Jackson Druid Hills 9 Softball Coordinator Chris Chilton Dunwoody 10 Athletic Specialist Chris Chilton Athletic Specialist Mark Brock Lakeside 11 Lithonia 12 REGION ALIGNMENTS Martin Luther King Jr. 13 AAAAAAA-Region 7 Berkmar Meadowcreek McNair 14 Brookwood Norcross Miller Grove 15 Central Gwinnett Parkview Southwest DeKalb 16 Lakeside Stephenson 17 AAAAAA-Region 7 Stone Mountain 18 Alpharetta Johns Creek Tucker 19 Cambridge North Atlanta Final 2018 statistics 20 Centennial Northview Chattahoochee Pope DeKalb County season leaders 21 Dunwoody DeKalb season records 24 School records 25 AAAAAA-Region 4 College scholarships 28 Charles Drew Mt. Zion Jonesboro Forest Park Mundy’s Mill State tournament results 30 Jonesboro Stephenson All-time DeKalb County state tournament records 32 Lovejoy Tucker 2018 All-Star Game Recap 34 Martin Luther King Jr. AAAAA-Region 5 CHAMBLEE REALIZES ALL-SPORTS THREE-PEAT Arabia Mountain Lithonia Chamblee Miller Grove Three state championships served as the driving force in lifting Chamblee to a Clarkston Southwest DeKalb third straight DeKalb County All -Sports Trophy title during the 2018 -19 school Columbia year. The Bulldogs captured top state trophies in AAAAA girls swimming in the winter AAAA-Region 4 and then swept AAAAA honors in both boys and girls tennis in the spring. Druid Hills Luella Chamblee also earned crucial state tournament berths in boys cross country, girls Eastside North Clayton cross country, volleyball, softball, girls basketball, baseball, boys soccer, girls Hampton Salem soccer and girls golf. Henry County Woodward Academy In addition to the overall trophy, Chamblee also nailed down the first DeKalb County Girls All -Sports Trophy. Tucker won on the boys side. AAA-Region 5 Cedar Grove Stone Mountain Lovett Westminster Final All-Sports Trophy Point totals: Pace Academy 1) Chamblee .............................................................................................. 352.0 AA-Region 6 2) Southwest DeKalb ................................................................................ 307.0 Drew Charter South Atlanta 3) Lakeside ................................................................................................ 301.0 Douglass Therrell 4) Dunwoody ............................................................................................. 296.5 Kipp Academy Washington 5) Druid Hills ............................................................................................ 289.0 McNair 6) Tucker .................................................................................................. 287.5 7) Arabia Mountain ................................................................................... 283.0 CAREER COACHING WINS 8) Stephenson ............................................................................................ 237.5 9) Cedar Grove .......................................................................................... 207.5 DeKalb softball coaches with 100 wins 10) Clarkston ............................................................................................. 192.5 11) Martin Luther King Jr. ........................................................................ 189.5 *Kerry Brown, Dunwooody 245-199 12) Miller Grove ....................................................................................... 160.0 *Bernice Foreman, Southwest DeKalb 219-143 13) Lithonia ............................................................................................... 159.0 Pat Floyd, Tucker 183-79 14) Redan .................................................................................................. 155.5 Steve Dennis, Columbia 177-172 15) Stone Mountain ................................................................................... 150.0 *Eric Hoxie, Arabia Mountain 130-79 16) Columbia ............................................................................................. 149.5 Cheryl Finke, Dunwoody 120-23 17) Towers ................................................................................................. 93.5 18) McNair ................................................................................................. 85.0 Duane Wilson, Lakeside 113-82 ........................................................................................... Marco Jackson, Stephenson 104-72 19) Cross Keys 83.0 Sean Brinkley, Redan, Dunwoody 102-74 Lynn Maddox, Dunwoody 101-15 2 SOFTBALL HISTORY DeKalb County served as one of the main forerunners in the introduction of fastpitch softball as a sanctioned sport on the high school level. While the slowpitch version of the game has held state championships since 1981, fastpitch softball did not make its inau- gural appearance until the fall of 1993. Local schools dominated the field in that first season, as 18 of the 21 teams hailed from DeKalb County. Marist, Berkmar and Meadowcreek were the remaining three entrants. Dunwoody put together an impressive run as the initial powerhouse in the sport, finishing either first or second in the state in each of the first four years. Co -coaches Lynn Maddox and Cheryl Finke guided the Lady Wildcats to a super 101 -15 record during that stretch. Dun- woody won at least 17 games every year from 1993 -98. The initial 1993 campaign featured a memorable battle between Dunwoody and Meadowcreek for what was then listed as the Metro Championships. Dunwoody opened that tournament in dominating fashion, posting three straight shutout triumphs over Lithonia (9 -0), Redan (6 -0) and Berkmar (5 -0) to advance to the championship round. Matched up against Meadowcreek in best -of -three series, the Lady Wildcats fought to the very end before coming up just short in their pursuit of the first and only metro crown. Dunwoody actually gained the early advantage by pulling out a 2 -1 nailbiter in the first game of the showdown. Mead- owcreek, however, bounced back to sweep the last two contests by the narrow respective margins of 12 -9 and 2 -1. The Lady Wildcats used that heart -breaking defeat as inspiration in what would prove to be the first of their two state cham- pionship runs in 1994. After posting a super 22 -3 record in the regular season, Dunwoody rolled past Lassiter (3 -1), Tucker (13 -2), Brookwood (3 - 0) and Brookwood (7 -3) again in a perfect 4 -0 state march. Overpowering sophomore southpaw Adrienne Fortmann capped a stellar 15 -2 season on the mound, striking out six and allowing only two hits in picking up the pitching victory. Junior shortstop Sabrina Touchberry (3 -4, 2 RS), sophomore centerfielder Amy Thompson (2 -4) and junior third baseman Megan Galhouse (2 -4), meanwhile, shined brightest offensively for the Lady Wildcats. Other key players for Dunwoody included junior catcher Nancy Diamond , sophomore pitcher -second baseman Ashley Fawcett , junior leftfielder Shana Vidal , freshman first baseman Melissa Chastney and freshman rightfielder Jessica Tucker . Coach Pat Floyd and the Tucker Lady Tigers nearly joined Dunwoody in the championship round, dropping a 9 -3 heart - breaker in 11 innings to Meadowcreek in the semifinals. Freshman pitcher Jill Wilkinson (20 -5), senior shortstop Krissy Streid and junior outfielder Teresa Eubanks led the charge for a Tucker squad that went 3 -2 at state and finished 24 -5 overall. Redan also qualified for state in 1994, dropping two straight tough decisions to Brookwood (2 -1) and Meadowcreek (2 -0). Senior southpaw Mandy Smart was brilliant on the mound in defeat for the Lady Raiders. Dunwoody nearly earned a second straight state championship in 1995, settling for runnerup honors after a stunning loss to Douglas County in the championship round. The Lady Wildcats whipped Berkmar (9 -1), Brookwood (7 -3) and Parkview (8 -1) to advance to the final, before dropping two consecutive decisions of 3 -0 and 8 -2 to Douglas County in finishing 29 -5 overall. A brilliant group of seniors, though, made up for that disappointment by climbing to the top of the state field for the second time in three years at the 1996 AAAA tournament. Maddox was able to retire from the coaching ranks in style, as Dunwoody won three straight one -run decisions over Lassit- er (2 -1), Shaw (1 -0) and Berkmar (3 -2) and then easily rolled past Lassiter (6 -0) again in the championship contest in wrapping up a memorable 27 -4 season. Fortmann struck out three and allowed only one hit in the final blitzing of Lassiter, while Thompson, Tucker and freshman shortstop Nikki Reed paced a balanced offens that received key contributions from several individuals. Chamblee also earned a state berth on the AAA level in 1996, losing consecutive tough decisions to Columbus (5 -4) and Douglas County (6 -0) while getting eliminated in two games and finishing 19 -10 overall for the season. Tucker next ended a four -year dry spell for DeKalb County schools by advancing to the state Class AAAA tournament in 2001. The Lady Tigers posted a 1 -2 record at that battle on the way to finishing 31 -4 overall. Super junior pitcher Christy Wahl established a new county strikeout