Tripped in the 10th, Carlsbad Falls to Torrey Pines in CIF Softball Title Game

Rachel Nasland of Torrey Pines and her right-handed counterpart Shelley Proctor of Carlsbad battled for 10 innings—three past the regulation allotment in high school softball—not allowing a run until 2½ hours had passed Tuesday night in the CIF San Diego Division I Championship.

Then Julia Yacker’s single in the bottom of the 10th drove in a run to win the game for the Falcons. Shelley said she would have gone as long as needed to win. Carlsbad coach Dan Worley said she would have pitched till her arms fell off.

But the game at UCSD ended with Torrey Pines celebrating three days after the contest was supposed to have been played—delayed by a power outage on campus Saturday that prevented use of lights.

“When I hit it, I watched the ball, and when I saw the outfielders running toward the outfield fence I knew it was over,” Yacker told the North County Times. 

Expect the Lancers to be back a year from now, Worley said. Yacker, Nasland and Procter predict the same. They are all juniors.