2A Softball: Walk-off grand slam gives Mark Morris state title over W.F. West
May 23-Shyanne Sellers hit a grand slam with the score tied in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Mark Morris softball team the Class 2A state championship with a 9-5 win over W.F. West of Chehalis on Saturday.
Mark Morris (24-1) never led the game at Carlon Park in Selah until the game-winning homer.
The Monarchs did pull even at 5-5 with a two-out, run-scoring single by Taylor Lee, who also had one of the eight home runs hit by both teams.
W.F. West (22-5) hit back-to-back-to-back homers in the fourth inning to take a 4-0 lead on the Monarchs and ace pitcher Makenzie Henthorn, a Montana commit.
Henthorn struck out 10 batters and walked one.
Mark Morris cut the Bearcats' lead in half when Mikaila Warfield hit a two-run homer, scoring Sellers who had just doubled, in the bottom of the fourth inning.
After W.F. West got a run back in the fifth, Mark Morris again went yard with solo home runs by Lee to lead off the bottom of the fifth and Megan Fugleberg's two-out blast.
Henthorn and the Monarchs set down the Bearcats in order in the top of the seventh. Then Mark Morris went to work at the plate.
Keira McGinley singled to start things off. An intentional walk was issued to Fugleberg, and Paisley Fraidenburg followed with a single to load the bases for Sellers' walk-off homer to center field.
Mark Morris reached the championship game by beating Lynden 6-2 in the morning semifinal.
Henthorn pitched a three-hitter - albeit two were solo home runs and one of those came on the second pitch of the game - with 13 strikeouts and no walks.
Mark Morris would tie the game in the second inning on a wild pitch, and then Warfield hit a two-run double in the fourth inning for a 3-1 lead.
McGinley added a run-scoring single in the fifth, and Shailia Wild hit a two-run homer in the sixth for the Monarchs.
PORT ANGELES 6, RIDGEFIELD 5, 8 INNINGS - Ridgefield was eliminated from the consolation bracket as Port Angeles scored three runs in the seventh inning to force extra innings, and then won it on a hit by Sophia Ritchie in the bottom of the eighth.
Ridgefield (23-7) had a 5-2 lead going into the seventh inning.
The Spudders' big inning was a three-run third inning on hits by Bailey Wolski, Abbey Hite and a double by Madeline Bruguier.
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