By Ed Piper
The Viking softball team came from behind to defeat Coastal Academy, 3-1, with an explosive fifth inning Sat., March 25, to up its season record to 8-4.
The lightning-bolt inning came just before time was called, as La Jolla was playing under a time limit for the next scheduled tournament game to begin right after.
Down 1-0 in the bottom of the fifth, junior third baseman Kaitlin Murphy bombed her first home run ever in high school competition, this her third year of Viking baseball. That tied the game 1-1.
After one out, senior Emmy Cardenas came up, batting in the third slot. Someone in the dugout said, "She's going to hit a homer." Soon after, she crushed a pitch well over the fence in left field onto the street at La Jolla High, but landing foul.
The right-hander, who started on the mound, hit into a fielder's choice, the out made at second with Cardenas successfully reaching first.
That led to freshman JC Taylor, batting left-handed, beating out an infield single, Cardenas coming all the way around to score on a throwing error.
Freshman Savannah Putnam came in in relief of Cardenas in the top of the sixth, but the game was called under the time limit.
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