Bear River and Ridgeline advance to 4A softball championship series – Cache Valley Daily
Bear River’s Zoe Sorensen belts a two-run homer in the first inning vs. Snow Canyon in 4A playoffs, St. George, Utah, May 19, 2022. Photo by Jeff Richards, St. George News ST. GEORGE — Although Northern Utah’s Region 11 had just two of the six teams that were still alive in the 4A softball playoffs heading into Thursday’s games, both of those teams – Ridgeline and Bear River – made it into the championship game undefeated. Meanwhile, Southern Utah’s Region 10 saw all of its teams eliminated on Thursday. No. 1 seeded Bear River, which had made it past Cedar and Hurricane on Wednesday, defeated the Snow Canyon Warriors 5-4 on Thursday afternoon to earn a spot in the finals. Meanwhile, in the other bracket, the Ridgeline RiverHawks started the tournament with a 10-0 shutout win over Dixie, after which they defeated the Crimson Cliffs Mustangs, 5-1. Thursday, Crimson Cliffs had to first make it past Region 10 rival Desert Hills, which the Mustangs did by a score of 6-2. That earned Crimson Cliffs a rematch with the RiverHawks. Ridgeline got off to an early 3-0 lead in the top of the first and never looked back, powering its way