The Mid-East/Cochranton 12 and under softball team didn't exactly win the easy way Tuesday when they took on the Meadville/Titusville/Vernon or on Friday either when they won the District 1 championship game against Cambridge/Saegertown
| Tuesday (All photographs are from Tuesday) Leading throughout they had a few bungled throws and suddenly found themselves down a run with one inning to go. Then they had fortune reign down on them when a gutsy call by head coach Ashleigh Phillips to send her base-runner Karmyn Reese home would've ended up as an out if the MTV catcher was able to control the tag. Chaos then ensued when the ball that skirted away allowing Jersey Swartz to try to get to third base. The throw to third then got away allowing Swartz to score the go ahead run. In the bottom of the inning with two outs pitcher Abigail Mawhinney only needed to get MTV's number nine hitter out to win the game. This was even more important given MTV's best hitter Nora Lesko, who was already having a good night at the plate, was on deck. All she had to do is get possibly the teams weakest batter out and it is game over. But that's not what happened. Walking that batter now made coach Phillips a little nervous. Lesko hit a sleepy fly that dropped into the outfield. Lesko ended up on second and the nine batter stood on third. Mawhinney got the next batter to ground back to her and she made a very safe and careful throw to first the end the threat. The win put them in the championship game on Friday where their opponent was Cambridge Springs/Saegertown. Things did not look good for MEC when they faced a big deficit. Down 9-3 with just a couple innings the team got hot at the right time and they rallied to score seven runs in the final two innings to take home the District 1 banner. The win allows them to advance to the Sectional tournament which will be held at the Meadville Fairgrounds fields beginning Tuesday.  |   |
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