Lady Bears capture Regional crown, earn No. 1 state seed

MOSES LAKE – The Brewster High School girls’ varsity softball team battled through a field of three District 5/6 rivals in a day-long trio of playoff games Saturday, May 19, to claim the District 5/6 Regional title and earn the No. 1 seed to the state playoffs in Yakima next Saturday, May 25.
Following their 12-2 victory over Liberty Bell in the Central Washington B-2B league championship game the previous week, the Lady Bears boarded an early bus for Moses Lake last Saturday morning for their 10 a.m. opening game against Tri-Cities Prep at Paul Lauzier Athletic Complex.
Brewster shut out the Lady Jaguars, 11-0. Tri-Cities Prep came to the regional playoffs with a 7-7 league record and fourth place in the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference.
The win advanced Brewster into the 2 p.m. seminal round against Liberty Christian, ranked second in the EWAC with an 11-3 regular season record. The Patriots defeated Lake Roosevelt by a run, 6-5, in their opening game to move into semifinal competition against the Lady Bears. Brewster ended Liberty Christian’s state title hopes with a 9-5 loser-out defeat.     
The regional final came down to EWAC No. 1 Kittitas/Thorp, undefeated 14-0 in league play, and the CWB-2B league champion Lady Bears. The Coyotes beat Tonasket, 13-2, in first-round play and Dayton-Waitsburg, 14-4, in the semifinals to reach the title game.
The Lady Bears handed Kittitas/Thorp an 11-3 loss to take the regional crown and earn No. 1 seeding in the state playoffs. Brewster will travel to the Gateway Sports Complex in Yakima for their first game against Onalaska at 11 a.m., Saturday, May 26. The Onalaska Loggers finished fifth in the 2B Central League with an 11-5 record.