By Kyle Coppola
Tavares Softball Gets Big Upset Win Against MDCA 5-3 FINAL
Tavares Softball ground out a big 5-3 win against MDCA last night. The Lady Bulldogs were led by Emersyn Lee, who pitched an incredible game from start to finish. It was the best performance of the year for Lee, who struck out 4 batters and only gave up 1 walk in the evening.
Tavares took a 2-0 lead early in the game. By the top of the 4th inning, Tavares was on top 4-0. A rally in the 6th inning saw MDCA get within 1 run, and the score was 4-3. However, Tavares added an extra run in the 7th, and MDCA had no answers at the end of the contest.
Sophomore Bailey Rasmussen scored 2 runs in the evening, while Aliyah Cantu-Lopez, Olivia Padilla, and Emma Pattee all got at least 2 hits in the evening.
It was a total team performance by the Lady Bulldogs and a huge upset win against a very good MDCA team. MDCA is now 7-4 on the year, while Tavares is 2-5. The win was just what Tavares needed. We knew this team was beginning to come together in the past few weeks, and this win was a big positive boost in the right direction for the team.
MDCA gets the weekend off to rest and prepare for some big games next week against Master’s Academy and Umatilla High. Tavares has one more game this week against FA-Leesburg, where they will be the favorite.
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
