THOMPSON (NewsDakota)- After a days’ delay, the Region 2B Softball Tournament began for Carrington softball, and after a heartbreaking semifinal loss, Carrington fans were witnesses to the greatest single-game hitting performance in program history.

Region 2B Semifinal: Pembina County North 8 Carrington 7 FINAL/9

After Calleigh Hewitt hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the top of the ninth, the Grizzlies rallied to advance to the Regional Final with a three-run inning.  The Cardinals trailed 3-0 and did not have a hit through five innings, but then Maara Kutz homered and Kenedy Trostad drove home Hewitt with a double to make it 3-2.  PCN scored twice in the sixth before Kutz doubled home a run and Hewitt plated two to tie the game at 5.  But after Hewitt’s homer, PCN rallied in a driving rain as Kutz committed an error and Jocelyn Anderson delivered the walk-off single.

Region 2B Elimination Game: Carrington 13 Nelson County/Midkota 3 FINAL/6

Hewitt launched a walk-off, two-run homer in the sixth to finish off the win to advance to Wednesday.  That single swing did the following:

Marked the first cycle in program history

Marked the first five-hit game in program history

Was her fourteenth career home run and eighth career postseason homer

It also made a winner of freshman pitcher Brina Wolsky, who allowed just six hits and one earned run while striking out six.  Hewitt doubled in the first, tripled in the second, singled in the fourth, singled again in the fifth, and launched the winner in the sixth.  For the day she was 8-for-10 with two doubles, two homers, and nine RBI.

Carrington will face the loser of the Regional Final between Thompson and Pembina County North in a state qualifier on Wednesday with coverage on KDAK The Cardinal beginning at around 4:45pm.