MVU and Brattleboro battled through an incredibly balanced championship game in 2013. Both pitchers were perfect through 3, with Kayla Wood and Dakota Raleigh showing they're the top two in the state. It got exciting and the MVU defense escaped some jams as the game continued scoreless into extra innings. Incredibly, Kayla stayed perfect through 9 innings vs a Thunderbird lineup who had just beaten #1 seed Essex 8-0 ... Finally, with two out in the 9th, after a great double play of LF-C-3B, Brattleboro slipped in a a run for a 1-0 win. Amazing. Kate and I have had the chance to work with many of the MVU players in winter pitching (since they were in 4th or 5th grade!) and on our summer orange team of lore. Great ladies with great coaches and great families. They made us proud. Dakota, Coach Everett Johnson would have loved you. Dakota, Meggie, Kirstin, Katie, Sommer, Arika, Lindsay, Laura, Coach H, Coach M, and all of MVU, bravo! I am thankful that NMC flexibility allowed Marilyn and I to see the game - and that Kate was able to come up from Yale to see her pitching student and oranges in action.