'They came out and just did a good job.' UCChristians and Clay_Athletics added their names to the list of Northeast Florida teams sealing berths in the state softball semifinals.
Returning from the delay, Kardatzke fought through a seventh-inning bout of wildness. Trinity got two runners aboard in the final inning on walks and scored a run when Jordyn Lasater raced home after a wild pitch, but Kardatzke forced a game-ending groundout to Macie Bourgholtzer to complete her one-hitter.
Kardatzke got UC on the board in the first with a single to center that scored Bourgholtzer. The Fighting Christians picked up a pair of insurance runs in the sixth when Kardatzke walked and scored on Kate Dell'Alba's single, and a fielding error brought in another run. After outlasting Bishop Kenny in a 17-inning affair in the quarterfinals, the home Jaguars ran out of gas in the 10th frame this time around.
West Florida threatened to tie in the bottom half of the frame with runners on first and second and one down, but Blue Devil pitcher Gabby Ellis recorded back-to-back outs to avoid the danger and finish her complete-game shutout.