Western junior Ali Solo delivered exactly what the doctor ordered Saturday afternoon as she tossed a two-hit shutout and the Wildcats topped Seminole 2-0 for the Class 7A girls softball state championship game at the Legends Way Ball Fields in Clermont.
Solo, who has been battling a cold for the past two weeks, pitched a gem as she struck out nine and retired the last 11 batters she faced in a 90-minute game. Solo (19-4) faced 23 batters, just two over the minimum.
“I’ve been taking Advil and medicine that my doctor gave me, and I just have a little bit of a cough,” Solo said by phone. “I was...
Here are the regional results and matchups involving teams from Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Regional quarterfinals
Thursday
7A
(1) Wellington 2, (8) St. Cloud 0
(4) Jupiter 11, (5) Orlando Boone 0
(6) Miami Coral Reef 5, (3) West Broward 3
(2) Palm Beach Gardens 6, (7) Kissimmee Osceola 2
(2) Park Vista 1, (7) Stoneman Douglas 0
(1) Western 8, (8) Coral Gables 0
(5) Spanish River 11, (4) Cypress Bay 2
6A
(2) St. Thomas Aquinas 10, (7) Monarch 4
(4) Viera 5, (5) Seminole Ridge 0
(2) Melbourne 15, (7) Dwyer 0
(4) Cooper City 15, (5) Fort Lauderdale 0
(3) South Plantation 13, (6) West Boca...
Spanish River’s girls’ softball team capped off an improbable run by winning the FHSAA Class 7A state championship on Saturday afternoon with a 3-2 victory over Tampa Plant at Legends Way Ball Fields in Clermont.
The Sharks (17-8-1) entered the final four ranked 94th overall in Florida and 23rd in Class 7A.
Undaunted, Spanish River stunned the nation’s 13th-ranked Lake Brantley (24-4) 13-9 in eight innings on Friday night and followed it up with the victory over the state’s fifth-ranked Tampa Plant (27-4) in the title game for the first state championship in the sport in school history.
Spanish...
The Wellington softball team is heading to the state final four for the third time in school history.
The host Wolverines received a strong performance from pitchers Tori Payne and Jordan White
as they held off Jupiter 2-1 in a Class 7A regional final on Saturday.
Wellington (20-2-1) advances to the Class 7A state semifinal for the first time since 2017 and
they will play Plant in Clermont on Friday.
Payne, a sophomore, started and tossed three scoreless innings while allowing four hits and two
walks with two strikeouts. White, a senior captain and Jacksonville University signee, pitched
four...