Spring Fling 2019: Nashville area top performers from Day 4
MURFREESBORO — Another year of Spring Fling has come and gone.
Friday served as the final day of the spring sports championships in Murfreesboro.
Here were the top performers from Day 4:
Softball
Brooke Sudduth, Cascade: Sudduth pitched a complete game, striking out 11 batters but Cascade lost 1-0 to Summertown in an elimination game.
Elizabeth Woods, Summertown: Woods tossed a complete-game shutout in a 1-0 win over Cascade in an elimination game.
Brittany Adair, Columbia Academy: Adair pitched a complete-game shutout, striking out six batters as Columbia Academy won the Class A state championship with a 3-0 win over Summertown.
Kennedy Gillespie, Forrest: Gillespie hit the go-ahead two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning as Forrest defeated Lexington 3-1 in the Class AA state championship game.
Caitlyn McCrary, Siegel: McCrary went 3-for-4 at the plate with two home runs and three RBIs as Siegel defeated Jefferson County 10-1 in an elimination game.
Tennis
Baylor Sai, MBA: Sai won the Division II-AA individual state championship by defeating McCallie's Will Leathers 2-0.
Donovan Janicek, Brentwood: Janicek won the Large Class Singles championship by defeating Central Magnet's Nathan Zou 2-0.
Alex Torre and Georgia Fischer, Brentwood: Torre and Fischer won the Large Class Doubles championship by defeating Dobyns Bennett duo Lainey Hill and Sydney Berry 2-0. For Fischer, it is her fourth consecutive doubles state title.
Hamsa Javagal, Brentwood: Javagal won the Large Class Singles championship by defeating Collierville's Romane Britt 2-1.
Maggie Cannata, Ensworth: Cannata won the Division II-AA Singles championship by defeating Baylor's Landie McBrayer 2-1.
Track and Field
Lester Shaw III, East Nashville: Shaw won the boys long jump state championship with a jump of 22-5.25 feet.
Elijah Simmons, Pearl-Cohn: Simmons, a UT football signee, won the boys shot put with a distance of 53 feet.
Demick Starling, East Nashville: Starling captured boys 400-meter dash with a time of 48.43 seconds.
Alex Ponce, Merrol Hyde Academy: Ponce won the boys 3200-meter run with a time of 9:52.92 seconds.
Pearl-Cohn: The Pearl-Cohn 4x400 relay team won the boys state title with a time of 3:22.299 seconds.
Jayln Rice, East Nashville: Rice won the girls long jump title with a jump of 18-02 feet and also won the triple jump title with a jump of 38-03.5 feet.
Alayna Darrett, East Nashville: Darrett won the girls high jump with a jump of 5-02 feet.
East Nashville: The East Nashville girls 4x100 relay title with a time of 48.28.
Reach Luis Torres at ltorres1@gannett.com and follow him on Twitter @LFTorresIII.