by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi
David nearly defeated Goliath on Friday, June 6, in Warsaw.
Lancaster, which had already punched its first ticket to the Class 1 state softball tournament for the first time in 24 years, almost pulled off the upset of the decade in the Region 1A final at Rappahannock.
The Raiders took a 34-game winning streak over Lancaster into the regional championship and kept the streak alive with a walk-off single by Reagan Barrack in the bottom of the seventh for a 3-2 win.
The Raiders went on to edge William Campbell, 1-0, in similar fashion, manufacturing a run in the bottom of the sixth to win their home Class 1 quarterfinal on Monday, June 9, and advance to the semifinal tomorrow, June 13, at Moyer Sports Complex in Salem. Their opponent hadn’t been determined at press time.
Lancaster, as the Region 1A runner-up, traveled for its first state game since 2001 to play Buffalo Gap on….
