AUSTIN — The Dripping Springs High School softball team (31-9-1 overall) is in serious contention to play for a state championship and is one of four teams remaining in Conference 6A D2 after winning two of three games — 4-3, 1-6 and 8-1 — over Cedar Ridge High School to advance to the State semifinal.
In game one of the 6A D2 Region IV Final best-of-three game series Thursday, May 15 against Cedar Ridge, the Lady Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Three consecutive innings were scoreless until the Raiders scored two runs in the fifth inning to take the lead.
Dripping Springs kept the Raiders scoreless in the top of the sixth and scored a run in the home half to tie the game 2-2. Both teams were scoreless in the seventh inning to force extra innings. The Raiders scored a run to again take the lead, but Dripping Springs rallied for two runs with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning for a 4-3 win.
