Lady Trojans softball enjoy perfect start to season

The Troy Lady Trojans softball team is enjoying a season like they never have before and it’s fitting because it’s their 20th season of competition.

School officials voted in 2005 to approve adding the sport for the 2006 season. The Lady Trojans, under former Libby coaching great Russ Thompson, only won one game, 12-9 over Libby’s junior varsity team. Megan Etienne’s 3-run home run was the difference in the game.

The Lady Trojans have had mixed results in the meantime. Head coach Keith Haggerty took the head coaching job in 2015 and Troy made the divisional playoffs in 2018 before narrowly missing in 2019. They qualified for divisionals a year ago before losing to eventual Class B Missoula state champ.

After a 26-0 beat down of visiting Priest River, Idaho in three innings on a warm and sunny Tuesday in Troy, the Lady Trojans are unbeaten at 7-0. They’ve outscored their opponents 124-21. Four of the wins were three-inning affairs when they won by at 15 runs. Another was a 11-run win in five innings over Mission-Arlee-Charlo to begin the season.

Troy’s closest games were a 7-6 win over Anaconda on April 12 and a 17-9 win over Bonners Ferry on April 5.

The Priest River game was never close.

After a scoreless top half of the first, the Lady Trojans scored 18 runs in the bottom of the inning.

Autumn Fisher and Leslie Gravier each walked and stole bases before Kirsti Jellesed’s single scored them for a 2-0 lead. An error, an infield hit and a wild pitch made it 4-0.

Pitcher Halle Wallace’s infield single scored another run and a pair of bases-loaded walks made it 7-0. Jellesed took one for the team, scoring the eighth run.

Kylie Cole’s grounder scored a run for a 10-0 lead and Ellie Borgman added a RBI single to make it 11-0. Tana Grant singled in a run and a double steal made it 13-0. 

Following a Priest River pitching change, Eliah Wallace’s bases-loaded walk made it 14-0. Gravier’s single plated two more runs for a 16-0 lead.

Two more bases-loaded walks made it 18-0. The Lady Trojans scored eight runs in the bottom of the second inning with the last on Olivia Hall’s infield single.

Wallace got the win in the circle.

Troy is back in action Friday afternoon at 3 p.m., hosting Plains. Saturday, the Lady Trojans are at Thompson Falls.

    Troy's Leslie Gravier watches a pitch Tuesday, April 15, 2025, against Priest River, Idaho. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
  

    Troy's Halle Wallace delivers a pitch Tuesday, April 15, 2025, against Priest River, Idaho. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
  

    Troy's Addison Fisher connects for a hit Tuesday, April 15, 2025, against Priest River, Idaho. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
  

    Troy's Eliah Wallace connects for a hit Tuesday, April 15, 2025, against Priest River, Idaho. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
  

    Troy's Kylie Cole connects for a hit Tuesday, April 15, 2025, against Priest River, Idaho. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)