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District softball: Durant ousts Wharton in extra innings (St. Petersburg Times)

**Joey Knight, Times Staff Writer**

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

TAMPA -- For one surreal stroll around the bases Tuesday night, the throbbing
in Durant sophomore Kelli Tidwell's left knee vanished, soothed by one potent,
pain-killing shot.

Over the fence in right-centerfield.

Tidwell, who has missed roughly 75 percent of the season with meniscus damage,
hit a one-out solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning, lifting the
top-seeded Cougars (18-4) to a 2-1 triumph against Wharton in the Class 8A,
District 7 semifinals.

Durant faces No. 2 Alonso, a 3-2 winner against Bloomingdale, in Thursday's 7
p.m. final at Plant High.

"I just went up there looking for a base hit, trying to make contact, and it
just went," said Tidwell, who hit her only other homer of the season off the
same pitcher -- Wildcats freshman Makaleigh Dooley -- 12 days earlier. "It
feels good to be able to come back."

Durant was forced into extra innings when Dooley, who allowed seven hits, led
off the fifth with a solo homer to right. Durant led 1-0 in the third after
Brooke Freeman doubled and scored on Nikki Giovenco's sacrifice bunt.

Shannon Bell had three singles for ...

St. Petersburg Times