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Summerville wins 5-A softball state championship

Anskey Bennet fires a shutout and drives in both runs in a 2-0 win in the second game of a two-game sweep

Mike Duprez

Ansley Bennett pitched a seven-hitter and drove in both runs as Summerville beat Byrnes 2-0 to complete a two-game sweep of their 5-A state championship series.

The Green Wave (32-1) turned two double plays behind Bennett, a sophomore. It was the first state championship in softball for Summerville history after three previous finals appearances in 2010, 2013 and 2015.

Summerville scored its runs in the third inning off USC Upstate signee Sierra Maness, who didn't allow a hit after the third inning and struck out 14.

Summerville Softball

Bennett also hurled a shutout in Game 1 as the Green Wave prevailed 1-0. She allowed just three hits as did Maness.

Katie Guilliam’s RBI single in the fifth inning brought home Abby Driscoll with the only run of the game.

Maness had a spectacular senior season, going 23-3 with an 0.75 earned run average and 275 strikeouts in 151 innings.

Summerville’s only loss was 2-1 to Byrnes in a tournament on March 18.

Byrnes concluded its season with a 29-5 record.

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MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.

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