It was a battle of 3A #1 ranked and defending champion Juanita against 4A #2 ranked Woodinville last night on a gorgeous evening at WHS.  Similar to last year it was a duel of the two top pitchers in the state, 2011 4A King Co MVP Pitcher Madi Schreyer of Woodinville and 2011 3A KingCo MVP Pitcher Alison Rhodes of Juanita. They combined for 21 strikeouts in the game, 10 for Madi and 11 for Alison.  It would come down to which team was more patient at the plate and that turned out to be our Lady Falcons.

Our girls got it going in the second by Lauren walking for the first of her three of the game.  Sarah Taketa traded places with her at first on a fielders choice.  Alex Boyd drew a walk which brought up Alyssa O'Farrell.  Replacing Alex at first was Maggie Loyet.  A throw down to first base from the catcher in error sent Sarah Taketa to 3rd which resulted in another errant throw and Sarah was able to make it home for a 1-0 Woodinville lead.

Madi on cruise control throughout the game was awarded more supporting runs in the third with an infield hit by Kayla O'Farrell and back to back walks from Makenna Weir and Lauren Burchak sent Sarah Taketa to the plate with the bases loaded.  Sarah delivered with a line drive base hit to right field scoring two runs to put Woodinville up 3-0.  Alison struggled with another walk of Alex Boyd and with the bases loaded Alyssa O'Farrell drew a bases loaded walk to push across the 4th run of the game.

Madi shut it down from there and our Lady Falcons knocked off the reigning 3A State Champion Juanita and handing them their only loss of the season.