By Michael Butler

The Tallassee High School softball season came to a close at the Central Regional at Montgomery’s Lagoon Park on Wednesday. The Tigers finished the year with an 18-18 record.

It was the fourth straight season reaching the playoffs and falling in the regional round. Tallassee advanced to the state finals tournament in 2021.

Class 4A/Area 6 champion American Christian will head to the state tourney in Oxford as the Central Regional champ. West Blocton, also from Area 6, makes the field as the runner-up.

Tallassee opened the tournament on Tuesday with a comeback win over Oak Grove, 9-8 in eight innings. It was a seesaw battle with the Tigers falling behind early 5-0 only to take the lead back with a 6-spot in the fourth. Tallassee led 8-5 in the seventh, but Oak Grove tied it sending the game to extras.

In the ninth, Abbi Carwile, running for Madison Raney, scored on a wild pitch to give Tallassee the lead. Kam Tate shut Oak Grove down in their final at-bat to secure the victory. Tate and Regan Easterwood led the Tigers at the plate with two hits each.

THS dropped its next two games, 14-1 to West Blocton and 4-3 to Handley. Cheyann Easterling had eight hits in the trio of games to lead the purple and gold. She finished the season with a team-leading .532 batting average.

Tallassee will lose four seniors from the 2025 squad.

“The seniors did a very good job in leading us,” head coach Pat Love said of his squad which will have no seniors next year. “Everybody else is a tenth grader or ninth grader with a couple of eighth graders.”