NJN/am for Monday, May 18, 2015
Published 8:26 am Monday, May 18, 2015
Good Monday morning to you…
Weather: Not done with the rain. A 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms today and tonight, mainly after noon; otherwise cloudy with highs in the middle 80s and lows in the middle 60s. Tuesday will start off with more scattered showers and storms, ending by evening, with highs in the middle 80s and lows in the lower 60s.
Fire kills two victims. Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a fire in a Center Point house that killed two people Sunday morning. A man and a woman, whose names are yet to be released, died in the fire in a home on Jupiter Drive; it’s about a half mile east of Pinson Valley Parkway and a mile south of Sweeney Hollow Road. Four others were injured in the fire as they jumped out of windows to escape. It’s the second multiple-fatality house fire in Center Point in the last 16 months.
Sports: Just short. Hayden’s softball team came away with one of those trophies shaped like an Alabama map on Friday, but its color was not what they had hoped. The Wildcats lost two games to area rival Springville in the AHSAA State Championships in Montgomery on Friday to finish in second place. The first game in the winner’s bracket finals turned on a crucial umpire’s call on what appeared to be a home run by Kaitlyn Kelly, in which the Tigers left fielder crashed through the temporary fence as she chased the fly ball. The umpire, however, ruled that the ball had knocked over the fence, and therefore was a ground rule double – sending runners back to second and third bases, where they stayed. Springville won the first game by a 3-0 score, and took the championship game 2-0. The Wildcats simply couldn’t get hits off of Tiger eighth-grader Abby Swaney, a pitcher they had seen this season more than any other.