Laurel Highlands softball makes triumphant return to playoffs, no-hits Freeport
May 11—The Laurel Highlands softball team played a WPIAL playoff game Monday afternoon for the first time since 2013. The playoff-victory drought had gone back even further. That streak — the Mustangs hadn't won in the postseason since 1999 — came to a resounding end at Norwin.
Laurel Highlands, the No. 6 seed in the Class 4A tournament, scored nine runs in the first inning, added single ...
May 11—The Laurel Highlands softball team played a WPIAL playoff game Monday afternoon for the first time since 2013. The playoff-victory drought had gone back even further. That streak — the Mustangs hadn't won in the postseason since 1999 — came to a resounding end at Norwin.
Laurel Highlands, the No. 6 seed in the Class 4A tournament, scored nine runs in the first inning, added single tallies in the second, third, and fourth, and got a no-hitter from sophomore Payton Senge in a 12-0, five-inning victory over 11th-seeded Freeport. "When you score nine runs in the first inning, it's going to settle a team down a lot," Mustangs coach Patrick Livingston said.
"But the girls also were calm coming into it. They were calm on the bus ride down. Before warm-ups, they were talking about how much they wanted this game and they took it in that first inning.
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