Green Hills Rec Teams Wrap Seasons With Tourneys

BTC Trenton Wins Minor League Title

Teams playing with the Green Hills Recreation Association closed out play for the 2021 season with tournaments being held for leagues playing in the Harrison County League.
SOFTBALL
3rd and 4th Grade
The third and fourth grade softball tournament was held June 14-18 at the Ebbe Sports Complex in Trenton, with the Live Wires of Gallatin beating Holt Farms of Princeton in the championship game. Ray Family Farms, a Trenton team, took third place after beating Marathon Home Improvement, a Bethany team. Ray Family Farms had advanced through the bracket as they beat MFA Agriservices, a Trenton team, and then fell to the Live Wires, the eventual champions. They had to take a victory from B&G Muffler to make it into the third-place game.
MFA Agriservices won it’s first game against Pattonsburg before falling to Ray Family Farms. They scored a victory against Callaway Farms before falling to Marathon Home Improvement and just missing a chance to play for third.
The third Green Hills Rec team in the third and fourth grade tournament was American Family Insurance, which won it’s play-in game against Gilman City before suffering a narrow loss against the number-one seed, Holt Farms. American Family closed out its season with a loss to B&G Muffler.
5th and 6th Grade
In fifth and sixth grade tournament action in Princeton, the two Trenton teams playing for the Green Hills Recreation Association, Modine Manufacturing and Wholesale Home, went head to head in the play-in round, with Wholesale Home getting the eight seed and Modine having the nine seed. Modine won the contest before losing to Gilman City and then to Rinehart Hay Wrapping.
Wholesale Home, meanwhile, ended its season with the loss to Modine.
7th-9th Grade
In the 7th-9th grade division, Farmers Bank of Cainsville was the first-place winner in the tournament, which was held June 14-18 in Eagleville. Gilman City earned second place and the Henke team was third. Firehouse 54 took fourth place. Trenton’s team in the league was Graphics King.
High School
Green Hills Rec didn’t field a high school softball team, but Mercer and the Bad News Birds battled for first place in the tournament, held June 14-18 in Jamesport. Mercer came out on top by a score of 8-7 and had advanced to the championship game with a 10-2 win over the Mustangs. The Bad News Birds made it to the championship game after a tight 14-13 win over Gilman City, which then topped the Mustangs to take third place in a 20-6 victory.
BASEBALL
Machine Pitch
The Machine Pitch Tournament was held the week of June 20 at the Ebbe Sports Complex, but inclement weather pushed the championship game to Monday, June 28. The GHRA had four teams represented. K4C Cottages was the number one seed from the East Division teams and battled its way through the bracket by beating another GHRA team, Danny Wescott Trucking, in extra innings in the first round and Princeton in the second round. In the championship game, K4C faced the number-one seed from the West Division — O’Neil Home Furnishing of Bethany. O’Neil topped K4C in the championship game at Griffin Field to claim the league title and leave the Trenton squad with a second-place showing.
CFM Insurance got the number two seed in the East Division and beat B & S Auction in their first game before getting a win over BTC Bank-Bethany in the second game. CFM then took a loss to O’Neil’s but moved on to play Ledgewood Excavating for a chance to play in the third-place game. A win over Ledgewood placed CFM in the third-place game, but there the Trenton team fell to BTC-Bethany, who took the second meeting between the two teams, leaving CFM with a fourth-place finish.
Danny Wescott Trucking beat Pattonsburg on Monday night before dropping both games of a doubleheader on Tuesday, losing to K4C Cottages in extra innings and to Deskins Auto Glass in the late game.
Woldridge Fencing won it’s first game against Deskins Auto Glass, but fell to O’Neil’s Home Furnishings in the next round. The team bounced back against Pattonsburg before falling in action on Wednesday to BTC Bank-Bethany.
Minor League
The BTC Bank-Trenton minor league baseball team capped an undefeated season with a championship game victory over the Hot Shots in Eagleville on Monday night.
BTC had made its way through the bracket by beating R&C Livestock 13-3 in the tournament quarterfinals and Hartschens Farms in the semifinals, also by a score of 13-3.
Two other Trenton Minor League teams, Crow-Miller Insurance and Chumbley’s, faced each other in the first found, with Crow-Miller coming out on top, 12-6. They went on to drop a game to Hot Shots, 10-2 in second-round action, while Chumbley’s went on to defeat Princeton 9-5 in the third-place bracket. Chumbley’s would bow out of the tournament in the third-place semifinals, however, falling to Hartschens Farms.
Crow-Miller, meanwhile, advanced to the third-place game by defeating Daviess County Health Department in the third-place semifinals. Hartschens Farms would go on to win third, however, defeating Crow-Miller in the third-place game.
Little League
In Little League action, Trenton’s only team, Dynamic Tax and Accounting, was the third-place winner after beating Gilman City Friday, June 18 in tournament action at Bethany. Princeton Blue and Nail Excavating battled for first place with Nail Excavating coming out on top. Dynamic Tax and Accounting had been victorious over Gilman City, 12-4, in first-round action before falling to the eventual champion in a close 10-9 contest played on Wednesday, June 16. They took a 16-11 win over Pattonsburg on June 17 to earn the right to play for third place.
Junior League
Trenton’s CSI Overhead Door made it into the championship game of the Junior League Tournament, finishing second after a loss to Gilman City on Monday night in Pattonsburg.
CSI advanced to the championship after beating Princeton 13-0 in the first round and Gallatin Truck & Tractor 11-3 in the second round. The tournament was played in Bethany up until the championship and third-place games which were moved to Pattonsburg on Monday due to wet field conditions in Bethany.
SOE Metal topped Gallatin in the third-place game, played ahead of the championship game Monday in Pattonsburg.
CSI was the only Green Hills Rec team in the junior league.