My sister pitched the entire game. Katie, our lead pitcher who is recovering from an appendectomy, decided not to pitch, and instead was a DH (designated hitter.) After the first inning, the score was 2-1, Seymour (our main rival, whom of which we previously beat 1-0) was winning. A couple of innings goes by, and Aubrey hits an in-the-park home-run. It was Woodland's first home run of the season. After a couple innings, the score is 7-3, Seymour still ahead. Angie hits an in-the-park homerun also. Flashforward some more to the final inning.
It's 10-5, bottom of the 7th (the last inning in softball), and Seymour is still winning. A rally starts. My sister actually hits the ball well, and we score some more. With no outs, the score at this point is 10-8. Lindsey hits the ball hard, and it goes deep into the outfield. Lindsey is our best runner, so she's pretty fast. Another runner was on the base in front of her, but because she isn't as fast, Lindsey ends up almost right behind her. When they realize they're both on third base, one of them starts to run home, and Lindsey runs back to second. We score one more run, and Lindsey is tagged out. The score is 10-9. Someone else gets out from a caught ball. Then Aubrey is up. There's two outs, one person on base, bottom of the last inning. Aubrey previously hit a home-run, so the outfields are almost against our fence (which is 275 feet deep, more than pretty much every other field in our league.) She ends up getting a groundball, and is out. We lost by 1.
So the question was still up in the air: Who wins the division? At the moment in time, there's a three-way tie for first of the Brass Division: Us (total record 17-3) , Wolcott (17-3) , and Seymour (16-4). First they look at in-league records, in which we're all tied with only 3 losses. The next tie-breaker is out-of-league. Seymour is out because they lost against Ansonia, who is out of our league, the other night, whereas Wolcott and Woodland haven't lost against an out-of-league team. Then total record, which Wolcott and Woodland are also tied. Next is runs for/runs against ratio. We are also tied. So finally, it is our latest game. Since the results of the Seymour game weren't known yet, we both last played against Holy Cross. Wolcott lost, whereas we beat them with runs to spare.
So, that's how we won the division.
Next up is the NVL's, which is the top 2 teams of each league. Woodland and Wolcott will be in it, as well as 6 other teams. It's a one-loss-you're-out tournament, so it's pretty intense. Regardless of our results in the NVL's, we will also be participating in States. The only qualifications is to have 8 or more wins, in which we have more than twice that amount.
This was the best softball season that Woodland has ever had. Our team will be getting their respective banner in the gymnasium. It's sad that this is my sister's last softball season, since she's not planning on continuing in college. But, I suppose after 15 years of pitching and hitting, she deserves her rest.
