North Butler softball claims its own tourney title over Hampton-Dumont

ALLISON – North Butler stopped a five-game win streak for Hampton-Dumont in claiming its own softball tournament title on Saturday, June 18 at the Allison bal fields.
The Bearcats used a strong and fresh Taylor Graven, who struck out 13 Bulldogs to stake a claim in a 5-0 win over H-D in the title game.
She helped her own cause by going 2-for-3 and got a big two-run homer from her battery mate Nicole Heeren in the sixth that sealed it.
“Our bottom of our lineup produced for hitting,” North Butler coach Jeff Stirling said....
Read more on this story in the June 22 print and online editions of the Hampton Chronicle.