Congratulations Tularosa Softball 2nd Place in State & 5A Results

Congratulations to Tularosa Softball on bringing home the Red Trophy at state for 2023 Runner-Up, 2nd place in the state in A/2A Softball!

Way to go Lady Wildcats and Congratulations on an amazing season from AlamogordoTownNews.com and Krazy KALHRadio.org 95.1 FM. 

CLASS 1A-2A: At UNM, top-seeded Loving avenged a Thursday hiccup loss to No. 2 Tularosa and steamrolled through two championship series wins – 15-2 and 13-1 – to claim its 19th state championship. Tularosa (22-9) beat Loving 2-0 in Thursday’s main bracket semifinals, and Loving played its way back into Friday’s championship series with a 10-0 win over No. 5 Santa Rosa in five innings.

Loving (22-5) outscored opponents in this week’s state tournament 74-6.

Class 5A - Alamogordo defeated No. 3 La Cueva 7-3 in the 5A State Tournament.
The Lady Tigers then  advanced to the final 4 to play No. 4 Piedra Vista at 3 PM in an elimination game.

Sydney Lessen- CG, 15K’s, 4H, 3R, BB

Sydney Lessentine 1-4, 2RBI, 2B
Alexis Rodriguez 1-2, 2B, 2RBI, 2BB, R
Amani Cosom 1-4, 3B, 2 RBI
Meyli Herrera 2-3, 2R
Mariah Granados 0-1, 2BB, HBP, 2R
Hailey Evans 1-3, R, SB
Alyssa Bautista 1-3
Rainn Daily 1-1, BB
Aislynn Ortiz 0-2, BB

Victory led them to compete against No. 4 Piedra Vista which defeated No. 5 Alamogordo 1-0 at the 5A State Tournament. Congratulations to the Lady Tigers on a great season and achieving the Final Four for the 2023 season!

Sydney Lessentine - 6.2 IP, 13K, 5H, 2BB, R
Meyli Herrera 1-2, BB,
Mariah Granados 1-2
Sydney Lessentine 1-2

The two teams playing for the Class 5A state championship on Saturday at the University of New Mexico – No. 3 seed Piedra Vista and No. 2 Carlsbad – are each pretty happy about that . Each had a late rally to win by a run and keep their blue trophy hopes alive on Friday at Cleveland High.

According to the Albuquerque Journal; with two strikes and two outs in the final game of the stellar five-year high school career of Carlsbad star pitcher Faith Aragon, it entered her mind.

Her team was up 6-0, and she was one pitch away from it all coming to a dramatic end with back-to-back state titles and blue trophy No. 18 in for the storied Carlsbad softball program.

OK, well, maybe it would be more than just one more pitch as Piedra Vista’s Ayanna Stevens fouled one rise ball away.

Then another. And another. And then several others.

And by the time the 14-pitch at-bat ended with a Stevens single to centerfield, and all those emotions put on hold, Aragon finally got that final out — maybe a little anticlimactic at that point — a batter later for a 6-0 win in Game 2 of Saturday’s Class 5A championship series.

“She already had a super career when we won it last year, and she just bettered it this year,” Carlsbad coach Brian Santo said of Aragon, who was the 2022 New Mexico Gatorade Softball Player of the Year and will play at UTEP.

“She’s been unbelievable for us and all these seniors have. That’s why I made sure I had all nine of these seniors out on the field for that last out. This group is going to be a real tough one to replace.”

On her eight fellow seniors on the field with her for the final out, Aragon said, “I wouldn’t have wanted this to end any other way. We’ve been through a lot together and we’ll never forget any of this.”

Congratulations to all the super athletes and their amazing successes! 

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