Lady Crusader softball wins playoff opener big

Grace Christian enters the final week of the NCISAA spring sports season with three teams in the final four. But it was the softball team that got there first.

The second-seeded Lady Crusaders turned in a dominant performance Friday night in the first round of the NCISAA Division II softball tournament, crushing visiting Concord Academy 13-3 in a game that was never close. Grace walked off with a mercy-rule win following a misplayed sacrifice fly by Hayley Pugh which allowed Reagan Lindholm to score and end the game with one out in the bottom of the fifth. Moments earlier, McKayla McDougald had stolen home as the lead runner on a double steal that moved Lindholm into scoring position.

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