The Tennessee Sports Writers’ Association named their 2024 All-State softball tams Wednesday morning and three athletes from Greeneville/Greene County were listed.
Greeneville’s 1-2 punch of Kyla Jobe and Madison Carpenter were among those on the 3A squad, while North Greene’s Hannah Brooks made the 1A team.
Jobe, a University of Tennessee commit, was a standout in the lead-off position igniting the Greene Devil offence on many occasions. She finished her junior season with a 0.597 batting average with twenty-five doubles, four triples, and fourteen homeruns. She collected forty-two runs batted in while crossing home plate seventy-five times herself, and only striking out eight times in 147 plate appearances.
Carpenter followed Jobe in the lineup all year and followed her lead in several statistical categories during her senior year. The Bryan College commit ended the year with a 0.528 batting average that included sixty-six hits with four doubles and forty-two runs batted in. She also put the ball into play throughout the year, only striking out five times in 143 appearances. Defensively, she quarterbacked the battery from the catching position all year and compiled a 0.978 fielding percentage and eliminated twelve runners who attempted to steal.
Brooks, a freshman, played a huge role in the Lady Huskies success as they advanced all the way to the state sectionals. On the mound, she was 11-6 with 146 strikeouts and a 2.26 earned run average. At the plate she finished with a 0.449 batting average that included four doubles and three homeruns. She drove in twenty-nine runs and scored twenty-six times.
