Fred T. Foard can add another trophy to its case.

    Mariah Chalk tossed a complete game two-hit shutout, and the Tigers batted around in the second inning on their way to a 13-0 win over host Bandys and their second straight Catawba Valley Athletic Conference regular season title. In the process, they also earned the conference’s No. 1 3A playoff seed.

    Chalk held a no-hitter through 4 2/3 innings and fanned six, but got plenty of help from her offense in the early going. After a 1-2-3 first inning, three Foard hitters batted twice in the second, including Hannah Reitzel, whose three-run double put the Tigers up 7-0 early and for good.

    Fred T. Foard (17-1 CVAC) drew three walks in the inning, as nine of the 12 who went to the plate reached base. Meredith Lutz got the scoring started when her two-run double to left plated Reitzel (lead-off walk) and Savannah Burns (double). After Amanda Speagle popped out to Carlee Carpenter at shortstop for the second out, Shania Johnson ripped a ball that got through in right field and rolled to the fence, scoring Lutz and Johnson for a two-run inside-the-park home run.

    The next three batters reached to load’em up for Reitzel, who ripped one up the middle that cleared the bags. “This is our 14th win in a row,” Jennifer Cook, Fred T. Foard head coach said. “And we just won the conference. They’re on a mission — they want to go to Raleigh.”

    What Cook was referring to — “They’re on a mission” — was the fact that once the game was complete, the Tigers didn’t celebrate or show any emotion. No one could tell they just captured their second straight CVAC title. “I don’t have a clue,” Cook said when asked why the team didn’t celebrate. “We didn’t expect (the game to be this lopsided),” she said. “You’ve got to respect the abilities of that team [Bandys].”

    After the inning was over, Ashley Lineberger held the Tigers to only one more run in her 5 1/3 innings. That run came on an RBI double from Kendall Settlemyer in the third that scored that scored Johnson, who reached on a triple.

    While the Tigers’ offense was doing its job, Chalk was doing hers. In the first four innings, she sat down the side in order three times. Her first hit allowed came with two out in the fifth. Liz Goodwin’s single to right broke the no-hitter, and became Bandys’ (13-5) first baserunner since Macie Lovette drew a walk in the second. But Chalk got Kailey Punch to fly out to right to end Bandys’ threat, and the inning. “She came through big tonight,” Cook said. “They’re all [the team] something.”

    Chalk hit a three-run inside-the-park home run in the seventh to extend the Tigers’ lead to 13-0 after Candy McDanel’s RBI groundout scored Settlemyer.

    All but one of the Tigers’ starters scored at least a run, and all but two had at least a hit. Johnson was 2-for-3 with three runs scored. Burns was 3-for-4. Lineberger allowed eight runs in the loss.

    The conference tournament begins next week.