It was a 2-1 game last year and it was a 2-1 final again this year.
But with a different winner this time.
The Nokomis High School girls softball team from Newport received a two-hit gem from senior righthander Mia Coots to avenge last year’s 2-1 loss to York in the State Class B final by beating the Wildcats by the same score on Saturday at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham.
It was the Warriors’ first ever softball state title and they snapped York’s 35-game winning streak.
It was Nokomis’ 15th straight win and they wound up 18-2.
York concluded its season at 19-1.
In a pitching duel between Miss Maine Softball finalists Coots and McKayla Kortes, the same as a year ago, both pitchers struck out nine, according to the Portland Press Herald.
Kortes allowed three hits.
Nokomis broke a scoreless tie in the top of the sixth when Raegan King reached on an infield hit and scored on Addison Hawthorne’s triple. A throwing error allowed Hawthorne to also score on the play.
Coots took a no-hitter into the sixth but Emily Estes singled and Maddie Fitzgerald doubled her home with one out.
But Coots pitched out of the jam and retired York in the seventh.
York had scored at least 10 runs in 14 of its previous 16 games but Nokomis had held opponents to two runs or less in 13 of its previous 14 contests.
