Maxfield belted a home run in each of the two remaining games Saturday, and older sister Olivia went 4-for-5 with a home run, three RBI and three runs scored over two games to help Bear River clinch its 10th state title and third since 2016 with a 14-6 win Saturday afternoon over reigning champion Tooele at Spanish Fork Sports Park.
SPANISH FORK After Bear River s McCall Maxfield lost to Tooele in the first game of the best-of-three Class 4A state championship series Friday afternoon, she did what any competitive softball teenager would do to get back on the right track.
She fired up a karaoke machine with a freshman after going to an escape room with the team and sang along to a collection from the Frozen soundtrack and a few Taylor Swift albums.
And it worked like a charm.
Maxfield belted a home run in each of the two remaining games Saturday, and older sister Olivia went 4-for-5 with a home run, three RBI and three runs scored over two games to help Bear River clinch its 10th state title and third since 2016 with a 14-6 win Saturday afternoon over reigning champion Tooele at the Spanish Fork Complex.
The Lady Bears softball club finished off the regular season emphatically last week, winning at home in convincing fashion on senior night to cap an undefeated run through the Region 11 schedule.
The Bears are now focused on making a run in the state 4A tournament and will begin their playoff quest later this week on home turf.
Bear River closed out the region schedule hosting Mountain Crest on Tuesday, May 4, and the Bears bats got going early with five first-inning runs. The Mustangs got within 5-3 in the top of the second inning, but that was as close as it would get as the Lady Bears added four runs in the third and five more in the fourth, capped off by McCall Maxfieldâs two-run homer, to cruise to a 15-3 win in four-and-a-half innings.