BY JED BLACKWELL SPORTS EDITOR The Broome Lady Centurions did a little more than win another Region II-2A game on Friday night - two players made history. Pitcher Shelby Spencer recorded a perfect game, and Casey Whitaker hit for the cycle in the Lady Centurions' 16-0 victory over Blacksburg. No odds could be found for the possibility of two of baseball's rarest accomplishments coming in the same game, but the odds of the two events happening in the same week, at least in major league baseball, was put at 900,000 to 1. Neither player realized what they had accomplished until after the game. Whitaker's cycle was her first, and she got the hard part out of the way early. Whitaker homered to left in her first at-bat, and didn't even realize she had done that at first. "She threw me one right down the middle, and I hit it," Whitaker said. "The first base coach told me I could slow down after I got there." Whitaker's triple, the most difficult component of the cycle, came in her next at-bat. "It pretty much just hit the gap, and the outfielders couldn't get to it," Whitaker said. "I just kept running." Whitaker singled in her next at-bat, then doubled in her final chance to record the cycle. "She was going for two bases, no matter where she hit it," said Broome head coach Todd Justus. "You don't get a chance for the cycle often." Whitaker said the accomplishment gave her a new sense of confidence at the plate. "I didn't realize until Coach Justus told me what a big deal it was," she said. "It makes me feel like I can do anything if I put my mind to it and if I relax." Spencer, meanwhile, was brilliant on the mound. She had a direct hand in 14 of the 15 outs in the five-inning game, recording 13 strikeouts and getting a grounder back to the mound. A grounder to shortstop accounted for the other putout. In keeping with tradition, the perfect game wasn't mentioned, at least not around Spencer. "I had no idea," she said. "Nobody said anything." Justus did know, and went against his pregame plan when he saw his pitcher's determination. "I was only going to throw her a couple of innings, but I let it get by me and it was into the third before I realized she was still in. I told her good job, and that she was coming out. She said "no I'm not, I'm going back in. Then she said please," he said with a smile. Spencer was allowed to go back out, and she continued to mow down the Blacksburg batters. "My curveball was working," she said. "I kept my focus, and I was just thinking about getting them out, one batter at a time." Justus said he'd seen Spencer just as dominant as he did on Friday, but a little luck helped out this time. "I think she was just as dominant against Union," he said. "But a couple of things kept her from getting it (the perfect game). This time, she was good, and she had luck on her side as well." Spencer has thrown a no-hitter before, but Friday's perfect game was her first. "It makes me feel good," she said of her accomplishment. "It's not just me, though. We're all playing together and having fun this year."