![]() … (Orange Lutheran) definitely came out and punched us but then we were fighting back.” “We told ourselves that we had to just come back little by little. “That was definitely the first game this season that we were down by that many runs,” Willis said. After Norco’s leadoff batter reached on an error, Willis launched her go-ahead homer, her third of the tournament. The Cougars sent 10 batters to the plate in the fifth and carried the momentum in the bottom of the sixth. Norco scored its first two runs in the fifth on a throwing error and added a RBI single by tournament MVP Kinzie Hansen and a two-out, two-run single by Hannah Doi to trim Orange Lutheran’s lead to 6-5. … Hopefully, we learn from it and grow from it and hopefully we’ll see these guys again in the playoffs.” “You can’t make mistakes against a good team and give teams extra outs, and unfortunately, that’s what we did. “We gave them a really good game … (but) the game all of sudden got fast on us,” Orange Lutheran coach Steve Miklos said. Orange Lutheran (16-6-1) took a 6-0 lead into the fifth behind a one-hitter at the time by Miranda Stoddard (9-4), but the reigning CIF-SS Division 1 champion Cougars scored five runs in the fifth inning and took the lead in the sixth. Hansen didn’t allow an earned run in 4 2/3 innings of relief and struck out eight. Sophomore Stevie Hansen (8-0) earned the victory in relief, stranding the tying run at third base and the go-ahead run at second in the seventh to help lead Norco (23-0). Washington-committed Sarah Willis, knocked from the game as a starting pitcher in the third inning, belted a two-run, opposite-field home run to right to give the Cougars a 7-6 lead with no outs in the bottom of the sixth inning. ![]()
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