Purple Wave are golden
Brandon Hansen | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 15 years, 5 months AGO
KALISPELL - The 12U Purple Wave won six straight games en route to a championship at the Emerald's Invite this weekend in Kalispell.
Hits were aplenty for the Purple Wave, winning its first game of pool play 15-6 against the Spokane Dawgs. Kylie Murphy had seven strikeouts in the game. Murphy went 3-for-4 with a triple, Skyla Krantz went 4-for-4, and Jade Newman went 3-for-3.
They followed that up with a 9-0 win over the Glacier Emeralds White Team.
To wrap up pool play, the Purple Wave handled the Little Monsters with a 15-2 victory.
In their first game of the elimination round, Polson had eight different players with multi-hit games and the team won 8-0 in six innings over Cranbrook. They continued their momentum, beating the Spokane Dogs 7-2 thanks to eight strikeouts by Murphy.
Polson then played a barn-burner against the Couer d'Alene Crush and came out on top 4-2 in seven innings. Polson slowly amassed a lead, scoring two runs in the second, one in the third and one in the fifth.
The Crush weren't done yet though, trying to rally with a run in the sixth and a run in the seventh.
They also had two base runners in the final inning with one out but the Purple Wave caught a runners stealing and got one girl to pop-up for the championship.
The Purple Wave will travel to the Fury Fastpitch Summer Sizzler this weekend in Frenchtown.
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