CENTRALIA — R.A. Long’s fastpitch season came to a shocking end at Fort Borst Park here Friday with a 7-3 loss to Centralia in a Southwest 2A District winner-to-state, loser-out game.

“We just didn’t handle adversity well in this tournament,” said Lumberjills coach Jennifer Godinho, whose squad was champion of the Greater St. Helens 2A League, dropped into the elimination bracket when it lost its tourney opener to the Evergreen 2A Conference’s No. 4 seed. “The north teams are way more aggressive than the teams in our league, and we didn’t adjust to it. We fought hard and had a good season, but this was a disappointing ending.”

Centralia won the EvCo title and was upset in the semifinals by Woodland, which finished second to the Jills in the GSHL 2A. The Tigers capitalized on three RAL errors to score five times in the fifth inning and wipe out a 2-1 deficit.

Centralia had just two base hits during the rally.

Baily Harris absorbed the loss for RAL (18-4), scattering eight hits with seven strikeouts.

Sadie Petersen and Averie Bogner each went 2-for-4 with a run scored for the Jills, and Harris (hit) and Kaylie Dobbins each had RBIs.

Tara Haas was 1-for-3.

TENNIS

Local players still alive

LACEY — R.A. Long’s Kelsey Craft and Mark Morris’ Lauren Salberg remained in contention for a state berth in singles play, as did the MM doubles team of Lauren Anneberg and Jill Isaacson during action in the Southwest 2A District girls tennis tournament at Valley Fitness Center.

Craft opened with a 3-5, 7-5, 7-5 victory over Mari Pace of Black Hills in what RAL coach Helen Donovan called “a very good match … Kelsey too care of the critical points when she needed to.”

Craft, however, fell to Hockinson’s Mackenzie McWilliams 6-4, 6-1 in the second round, dropping her into a 9 a.m. consolation match Saturday against an Aberdeen player. The winner advances to state.

McWilliams is the No. 1 seed from the southern half of the district.

The Lumberjills’ doubles entry, Lindsay Norris-Collette and Hannah Johnson dropped a pair of tough three-set matches and were eliminated. The RAL duo lost to Centralia’s Jonica McMillan and Maggie Hernandez 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, and to Washougal’s Nicole Cooper and Adrienne Martin 7-6, 2-6, 6-3.

It was their fourth match of the season against the Washougal pairing.

Salberg opened with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over an Aberdeen player, then lost to W.F. West 5-7, 6-3, 6-1. In doubles, Anneberg and Isaacson lost to W.F. West 6-3, 6-3, and beat Aberdeen in a classic match 4-6, 7-6 (8-6 tiebreaker), 7-6 (7-2).

“They played wonderfully well,” MM coach Michele Waite said of her doubles squad.

Salberg and the Monarchs’ doubles entry play consolation matches at 9 a.m. Saturday.

TRACK

Bingham keeps shining

RAYMOND — Jasmine Bingham broke an 18-year-old school record in winning the 200 meters, and also captured the 100 and anchored Wahkiakum’s first-place 800 relay team at the Southwest 2B District track and field meet on Thursday.

Bingham qualified for next week’s state meet at Eastern Washington University in Cheney in both sprints, the relay and in the long jump by finishing third (15-11 1/2).

The top five place-winners at district move on to state.

Bingham won the 200 in 25.97 seconds, eclipsing the old record of 26.10 set by Megan McCoy in 1991.

“Jasmine has been chasing that record all of her high school career and she finally got it,” Wahkiakum coach Mike Riley said. “She earned it.”

Bingham won the 100 in 12.56, and the 800 relay of Abby Burns, Sarah Doumit, Shelby Deaton and Bingham prevailed in 1:50.27.

White Pass won the girls’ team crown with 75 points. Wahkiakum was sixth with 54.

Also earning state berths for the Mules were district champion Doumit in the high jump (5-2) and Amanda Collier in the javelin (fifth, 94-1).

Willapa Valley won the boys’ team title with 97 points. Wahkiakum was sixth with 36. Fifteen teams competed in the meet.

State qualifiers for the Mules were Riley Prestegard in the 100 (third, 11.80) and 200 (fourth, 24.19), Brett Chaput in the discus (third, 131-4) and the 400 relay of Bryce McClain, Phillip Doumit, Jake Goldsmith and Presetgard (third, 46.3).

Shay Bingham took sixth in the pole vault, but will still advance to state because he matched the qualifying standard of 11-6.