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Delay benefits Bulldogs
Martinsville wins shortened title matchup
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By DOUG POWELL - Bulletin Sports Writer

If the Martinsville and Tunstall boys soccer teams didn’t have long enough to get mentally prepared and think about the Piedmont District Championship game, they were given another hour and 23 minutes on Thursday night to think about it, courtesy of Mother Nature.

The PD title game on Thursday at Martinsville High School was delayed until 7:23 p.m. due to thunderstorms in the Martinsville/Henry County area, which left the field at Dan Greene Memorial Stadium a soggy mess. After one half of play and a small portion of the second half, the game was officially called at 8:43 p.m. Martinsville, who was up 2-1 at the time, was named the PD tournament champions.

“We played really well I thought, overall,” Martinsville head coach Pete Scouras said. “You hate to win a game like that, because it was a real good match going on. It’s too bad it couldn’t have (continued), because it was exciting for everybody, but you can’t stop Mother Nature.”

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Bassett gets shortened win
Nips Tunstall 1-0 on early second-half goal
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By MARK THOMPSON - Bulletin Sports Editor

In Thursday’s Piedmont District girls soccer tournament championship and third-place match, the only clock that mattered was the time frame Mother Nature set forth as storms rolled in and out of the Smith River Sports Complex like waves.

No. 1 seed Bassett was named the Piedmont District tournament champions after taking a 1-0 lead early in the second half on a corner kick. Lightning and an impending storm complete with tornado warning forced the coaches and tournament director Mike Minter to call the game.

The third place game between Patrick County and Martinsville was tied at 1-1, and Minter, Magna Vista’s Athletics Director, said the game would have a winner after it’s played today at 6 p.m. at the Smith River Sports Complex.

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Tunstall pulls off wild comeback win agianst Bassett
Walks off with 5-4 victory over Bengals

By CHRIS PRIDE - Bulletin Sports Writer

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The Bassett softball team saw an identical situation arise in Thursday’s Piedmont District championship as it did in the semifinals Tuesday against Patrick County. Starting pitcher Whitney Bowers held Tunstall at bay through five innings until the Bengals caught a big break in the sixth.

With four unearned runs in the top of the inning, Bassett head coach Terry Triplett once again called upon Taylor Mabry to close things out. The recently eligible pitcher had a four-run lead to work with and needed just six outs.

Tunstall senior shortstop Corbin Holder made sure Bassett only got five.

Holder’s two late doubles and Dominique Mulero’s walk-off RBI hit to center field in the seventh helped the Trojans pull off a 5-4 comeback win over the Bengals at Patrick County High School.

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Area Roundup: Rain means shared PD baseball title

By BULLETIN STAFF REPORTS -

Thursday’s rain washed out the championship game of the Piedmont District baseball tournament, and the game will not be rescheduled. As a result, Tunstall and Bassett have been named co-champions of the PD tournament.

“We have extenuating circumstances” that prevented the game from being made up, Bassett coach Bill Parks said. “There’s a lot of factors that went into the decision.”

Specifically, Bassett has exams scheduled today, and then will conduct its graduation ceremonies, Shelton said. Tunstall’s graduation is scheduled for Saturday. With those days both out of the question, there was no real window to make up the district title game.

With each team’s seed in the Region IV tournament already decided, the coaches agreed it was in the best interest of their teams to scratch the district title game

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