NJCAA crowns 10th-seeded Angelina (Tex.) 2014 softball champ at Canyons Complex

Written by Andy Griffin
May 18, 2014
NJCAA softball World Series at The Canyons Softball Complex, Angelina vs Central Florida. St. George, Utah, May 17 2014 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, St. George News

ST. GEORGE — Angelina, Tex., beat Central Florida 8-5 Saturday afternoon to capture the 2014 National Junior College Athletic Association championship at the highly-regarded Canyons Softball Complex, culminating the four-day national event hosted by St. George City,

The Lady Roadrunners built an 8-1 lead in the “if necessary” game of the double-elimination tournament, then held off a Patriots rally to hoist the trophy Saturday evening. Angelina was a heavy underdog as the 10th-seed going into the tourney, but rushed through all competition to earn a shot at the title.

The eighth-seeded Patriots handed AC a 6-2 loss in the first championship game, but couldn’t rally against the ‘Runners in the second game.

St. George News photographer Robert Hoppie captured some of the top moments from the event Saturday, so check out his photos here:

Tourney website

Click on photo to enlarge it, then use your left-right arrow keys to cycle through the gallery. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andy Griffin has been in sports media since 1989 and has covered BYU, Utah State and the Utah Jazz as well as all sports in southern Utah. A journalism graduate of USU, Andy has carried on a dual career as both a sports writer and a sports broadcaster and has been heard around the country. He has also been published in USA Today, Sport magazine, The Sporting News, Fairways magazine, the Los Angeles Times and locally in the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Spectrum. Andy was “The Voice of Region 9 sports,” for many years. He also hosted a daily sports talk show for three years called AG in the a.m. Andy has been married to his college sweetheart Shelly for 28 years and has five children ages 13 to 25.

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