University Christian barreled into the softball state championship game with a wire-to-wire blowout in the Class 1A state semifinals on Tuesday. (News4JAX)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – University Christian barreled into the softball state championship game with a wire-to-wire blowout in the Class 1A state semifinals on Tuesday.
The Christians laid the hammer to Schoolhouse Prep in a 12-2 romp that ended in five innings due to the mercy rule at Boombah-Soldiers Creek Park in Longwood. The Christians will try and win the second fast-pitch state title in program history on Wednesday against Evangelical Christian or Geneva at 6 p.m.
UC has played in five state championship games under head coach Keith Stroud. They lost title games in 2016, 2021, ’22 and ’24. The captured their only championship in 2023.
The underclassmen-led Christians (UC has just two seniors in Elissa Murdock and Dixie Tessier) racked up nine runs in the first inning and never looked back. Sinai Tunsill, Evey Bryant and Naomi Winburn had three hits apiece in the romp. Murdock and Lydia Smith both knocked in three runs.
In the circle, Tessier scattered three hits over the five innings.
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