GRAND SALINE, Texas-Harmony avenged last year's playoff loss and stunned New Boston by sweeping the Class 3A regional quarterfinal series.
The Lady Eagles got another shutout performance from sophomore Analese Cano, and they backed her with plenty of run support, following up Friday's 2-0, 9-inning win with a 9-0 victory Saturday at Grand Saline's Lady Indian Field.
Harmony (25-7) advances to the Region II-3A semifinal round against Bells (23-0-1). New Boston, which had lost just once prior to the series, finishes at 23-3.
The game had two hour-long weather delays, pushing the original 2 p.m. start back to 4.
"Waiting for a playoff game to start (due to weather) can't help but effect anybody," Lions coach B.J. Brown said. "But we've talked with our girls that there was going to be that time, where weather became an adversity, and we had to be prepared.
"It's still tough, once you're ready to go to have to sit down and then have to get ready to go again. We should've handled it better."
Cano needed 83 pitches to work seven innings for the Eagles. She allowed five hits, struck out seven and had no walks.
Morgan McAlexander-one of just two seniors for the Lions-suffered the loss, giving up all nine runs-four earned-on nine hits. She threw 99 pitches in six innings, fanned six, walked none and hit a pair.
Unlike the opener, the Eagles didn't wait until extra innings to get on the scoreboard.
Jenci Seahorn ripped a one-out double to the wall in left-center to start the Harmony rally, and Marlee Seahorn beat out a bunt single to put runners on the corners.
A two-out fielding error allowed Jenci Seahorn to score the initial run, and Kinzee Settles hammered a 0-1 offering deep over the wall in left for a 3-run home run, staking the Eagles to a 4-0 lead.
Through four innings, Lauren Hurst was the lone baserunner for the Lions after she singled to right with two outs in the second.
Alexis Morden led off New Boston's fifth with a single to left. A passed ball advanced Morden to second, but a popup to Cano and a groundout stranded the runner at second to end the inning.
Marlee Seahorn bunted for a hit, again, in the fifth inning, and Kaylee Clemens put a single into shallow left. A groundout to third erased Marlee Seahorn, but the throw to first on a double play attempt ended up in the dugout. Clemens was awarded home on the deadball.
Alaysia Henderson lined a one-out single to center for New Boston in the sixth inning, but a popout on a bunt attempt and flyout ended the frame.
"I told Alaysia and Morgan that their backs probably hurt from carrying us so many times this year, as our seniors," Brown said. "You can't say enough about what this group of young ladies has done. The accomplishments they've made, the strides that they've made as a team, and the challenges they've overcome, you can't express how much you appreciate how much they've done. I couldn't be more proud of the girls."
Katelyn Welborn's hard-hit grounder to center started the Eagles' half of the sixth, and Cano drilled a double to right-center field, plating courtesy runner Katie Burkham all the way from first. Marlee Seahorn had her third bunt single to load the bases.
Clemens was hit by a pitch to force in a run, and Delaynie Nash lined a two-run single to left to make it 9-0 Harmony.
Singles by Morden and Hurst put two Lions on in the seventh, but a flyout and strikeout ended the game and New Boston's season.
Morden was 2 for 3 to lead the Lions' 5-hit attack.
Marlee Seahorn was 3 for 3 for the Eagles, Settles had the 3-run homer and Cano and Janci Seahorn each contributed doubles.
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Morgan McAlexander and Lauren Daniel. Analese Cano and Katelyn Welborn. WP-Cano. LP-McAlexander. HR: HAR-Kinzee Settles, 3rd, 2 on.