South View's softball team knocked off the undefeated Gray's Creek squad, the top team in the United 8 conference, 3-0, on Thursday night, giving the Bears their first conference loss.
Earlier this season, Gray's Creek (16-2, 11-1 U8) took down the Tigers on their home field in a 3-1 effort, but this time around, South View wouldn't be denied at Eddie Dees Field, powered by junior Duke commit Jordynn Parnell, who finished with 15 strikeouts on the night.
While the Tigers' (13-4, 10-2 U8) collective highlight of the night was securing their biggest win of the season, Parnell relished in the win even more by accomplishing one of her more significant achievements in her high school career — becoming South View's all-time leader in strikeouts with 513 total in her three seasons as a Tiger.
Junior Duke commit Jordynn Parnell strikes out her 8th batter on the night for her 506th in her career to claim South View’s all-time strikeouts leading spot.
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South View leads 3-0 at the top of the 4th pic.twitter.com/lQ4GYRaC5h
Parnell struck out her eighth batter in the fourth inning — the pitch that broke the record. But heading into the game, the Duke commit didn't know what the previous record was; she just knew that she wanted to get a bounce-back win after suffering a loss to Purnell Swett on the road, noting that there was a lot more to achieve as a team going forward.
"Yeah, I broke the record, but there's still much more to do and more to process. It feels good now, but it feels like there's a lot more that I could do," Parnell said.
Coming into tonight's performance, Jordynn needed only four strikeouts to tie the 505 career strikeouts record and five to break it, but surpassed the No. 1 spot with flying colors in her shutout win.
The Duke commit climbed to the top of South View's all-time list, passing 2008-2012 Tiger and Averett University pitcher April Costas, who ...
