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Division III (Box Score): Second-ranked Hebron Lakewood (30-4) repeated as state champions, shutting out fifth-ranked Youngstown Ursuline (27-7) 5-0.
Lakewood starter Alissa Birkhimer went the distance and allowed just four hits, striking out nine without issuing a walk. Birkhimer, a senior, also earned the victory in the 2008 state title game when Lakewood defeated Wellington.
The Lancers did most of their damage in the fifth, as Birkhimer helped herself with a bases-clearing double to score three runs. A single by junior Caitlin Houk scored another run to put Lakewood on top 4-0, and sophomore Brayan Gault?s RBI double in the sixth accounted for Lakewood?s fifth run.
Birkhimer set down 13 of the last 14 hitters she faced. Ursuline junior Kasey Foley had two of the team?s four hits in the Lady Irish?s first trip to the state tournament.
Lakewood starter Alissa Birkhimer went the distance and allowed just four hits, striking out nine without issuing a walk. Birkhimer, a senior, also earned the victory in the 2008 state title game when Lakewood defeated Wellington.
The Lancers did most of their damage in the fifth, as Birkhimer helped herself with a bases-clearing double to score three runs. A single by junior Caitlin Houk scored another run to put Lakewood on top 4-0, and sophomore Brayan Gault?s RBI double in the sixth accounted for Lakewood?s fifth run.
Birkhimer set down 13 of the last 14 hitters she faced. Ursuline junior Kasey Foley had two of the team?s four hits in the Lady Irish?s first trip to the state tournament.
