Making the final out to their senior season.

The varsity softball team held their senior night May 19, for their three seniors; center fielder and alternate first baseman Shelby Maros, second baseman Emily Salyer, and right fielder Savanah Hagan.

The Bullitt East Lady Chargers played Fairdale High School and defeated the Bulldogs 10-0 in six innings. Salyer had two RBIs (runs batted in) and Maros had multiple hits and one walk in the game. This was the team’s 21 win of the season. With the senior leadership, their overall record was 21-3. The Lady Chargers went undefeated at home this season.

Senior night is very special to the seniors and their family. “My favorite part was sharing all the memories with everyone,” said Maros. Senior night brought out a big crowd and a time to look back on the good and funny memories of their high school softball time. Maros and Salyer both looked back to singing on the bus rides home from away games and tournaments as their favorite memory of the season.

Each senior received a senior collage poster to remind them of their high school softball years. “My favorite part about senior night was how on my senior collage poster my coach and his wife put my name as Emily Hadley because they know I’m changing it in July. It was just special to me because it shows they care and listen, and that was the first thing to have Hadley on,” said Salyer.

“My favorite part about senior night was hearing all the memories the other seniors and I have shared,” said Hagan.

After spending years playing for Coach Hoffman and the softball team, these seniors will miss a lot of things. “I’ll miss how close we [the team] were this season,” said Maros.

“I will miss the most being close with every single girl on the team and having softball as my home away from home. No matter what was going on in my life when I was at softball, nothing else mattered and that’s what I’ll miss the most,” said Salyer.

“I will miss my teammates and my coaches. They are truly one of a kind people who will make you smile on any given day,” said Hagan.

Playing a high school sport like softball is a learning experience to make you, as a student athlete, better on and off the field. “One thing that I learned is to not let your mistakes get to you,” said Maros.

“I learned from Coach Hoffman and he has always said to make decisions today that you can live with tomorrow,” said Salyer.

Hagan said, “I’ve learned from many experiences that I need a ten second memory to let go of my mistakes in the outfield or a strike out at the plate because it’s not the end of the world.”

As the 2016 season wraps up, the three seniors will guide their team to regionals and hopefully to the state tournament in Owensboro, Kentucky.