Softball

ST. GEORGE — The Weber State women’s softball team put up a valiant fight during its first two games of the season, but came up a little short of snagging a win during opening day.

The Wildcats fell 6-0 to Loyola Marymount in the first contest, and then dropped an eighth-inning heart-breaker 2-1 to Oklahoma State in their second game of the day during the Red Desert Classic at St. George’s Canyon Complex.

OGDEN -- The Weber County recreation department and Team Piggy will host a fundraising softball tournament, on Oct. 1-5, to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Players are invited to donate and dress in pink. Each team will sponsor a breast cancer survivor, who will throw out the first pitch at each game during that week.

TAYLORSVILLE -- No way the Warriors were going 0-for-3 in state softball championship games.

Making its first state title game appearance since 1993, Weber High led wire-to-wire Thursday in a nailbiting 8-6 victory over Copper Hills in the 5-A championship game at the Valley Complex.

TAYLORSVILLE -- For the second straight night, the Roy High softball team refused to give up when they were down and after the dust cleared on Wednesday's 4-A semifinal match they had made the championship game for the fourth-straight year.

With Murray up 6-5 in the final inning it was junior short stop Jordynn Barrera who led off Roy's last at-bat with a double that sparked a four-run inning and lifted the Royals to a 9-6 win, keeping their undefeated tournament bid alive.

TAYLORSVILLE -- With her team down 5-3 in the last inning of Tuesday's 4-A championship-bracket game, Jordynn Barrera stepped to the plate for Roy High knowing she had to put the ball in play and try to move the base runner the Royals had on.

Turns out it was easier for her to just hit a two-run dinger, tying the game and sending it to extra innings where the Royals scored the final run in the bottom of the eighth to advance with a 6-5 win over Region 6 champion Bountiful at the Valley Softball Complex.