Prep softball: Monarchs overwhelm Bearcats in district title rout
May 16—There's a sizable difference in how the W. F. West High School softball team prepared for a top-of-the-line pitcher this spring compared to 2025.
When the Evergreen Conference was littered with Division I arms — Lilly Camp, Annika Hollingsworth and Ella Ferguson — last season, the Bearcats got multiple reps against high velocity mixed with the sharp off-speed bite and pinpoint accuracy. That wasn't the case this spring. And it showed.
Mark Morris ace Makenzie Henthorn overpowered the Bearcats to the tune of 17 strikeouts in leading the GSHL's regular season champs to an 11-0 shutout statement over the EvCo champs on Friday night in the Class 2A District 4 championship game at Recreation Park. "She was impressive," Bearcats head coach Kevin Zylstra said. "She can flat out bring it and did a great job locating it.
We kind of ran into a buzzsaw today. " Only Avery Osborn had multiple at-bats of success versus Henthorn, finishing with W. F.
West's lone two hits. Karly Rasmussen didn't strikeout versus the Monarchs' southpaw and Montana recruit. Her riseball elevated enough to get W.
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