The Columbia softball program has never had a winning season. That all changed this year and in the final game of the regular season, the Tide girls had some fin in winning their 13th game overall and 10th league game by a 13-0 score over Lancaster Mennonite.
The Tide finishes the regular season with a 13-7 record and they were 10-6 in Section 5.
Columbia has qualified foe the District 3 Class AA playoffs, which open Wednesday, Feb.19 at a site, time and opponent to be announced.
Monday, which was designated Senior Day, the Tide had no problem. All the team’s seniors – Sara Burke, Allison Michener, Victoria Kuhn and Kayla Ortman contributed to the win, especially in tje second inning when the Tide sent 16 girls to the dish and scored 12 runs.
In that inning, Burke, who started the inning with a neatly bunt single, also walked; Michener singled and circled the bases on two Mennonite errors; Kuhn drove in a run on a ground out, while Ortman reached on an error and scored.
In that second inning, Columbia ripped seven hits, had four girls walk and Mennonite had five errors in the inning. Ripping extra base hits were Ashlyn Phillips, Emily Detz and Vallesa Carollo. Burke, Emily Detz, Phillips, Nobile and Carollo each reach base twice in the inning.
All of this offense coming for the Tide after they left the bases juiced in the first.
Columbia added to their run total in the fourth when Nobile reached after striking out the Mennonite catcher misplayed the third strike, moved to second on a wild pitch, to third on an error and scored on another wild pitch.
Detz was her usual steady stuff in the circle. She didn’t allowed Mennonite a hit until the fourth and that runner was erased trying to go to second. She also allowed the Lady Blazers a hit in the fifth. She struck out eight.
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