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Softball playoff roundup: Deer Park cruises to 5A title; Smithson Valley takes 4A crown

AUSTIN — Kristen Davenport pitched a three-hit shutout and went 2-for-4 with two RBIs to lead Deer Park to a 6-0 win over Klein Collins in the Class 5A softball state championship game Saturday at McCombs Field.

Deer Park (31-8), making its first trip to the state tournament, scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning with the help of a one-out RBI single by Davenport and a two-out RBI single by Devann Hebert. Deer Park added another run in the second on an RBI single by Caitlin Plocheck.

A day after getting 12 hits in a 6-3 semifinal win over Plano East, Klein Collins (31-5) didn’t get a hit until the fourth inning against Davenport (15-2). Klein Collins managed only three singles; Deer Park had 14 hits.

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Spring Branch Smithson Valley 9, Montgomery 8: Celena Massey went 2-for-4 with three RBIs to help Smithson Valley (30-6) win the 4A state championship.

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Smithson Valley won its first state title since it was the 5A champion in 2009. It led, 5-0, after two innings and 9-5 going to the bottom of the sixth. Montgomery scored three in the sixth, but a groundout with a runner on second ended the inning.

Montgomery had 14 hits in a semifinal win over Forney, and it got 13 hits Saturday. But Montgomery (34-7) left eight runners on base, and at least one in each of the first six innings.

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Kellen Robles and Megan Hill combined for five hits and four runs for Smithson Valley.

Lufkin Hudson 8, Henderson 4: In a matchup of elite pitching recruits, Kelsee Selman outpitched Tiarra Davis to lead Lufkin Hudson (36-5) to the 3A state title.

Selman (36-3), a junior who has committed to LSU, struck out 13 and also hit a two-run double in the fifth. After Henderson (30-9) scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth to cut Hudson’s lead to 6-4, Selman struck out back-to-back hitters with runners on second and third to end the inning.

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Davis (19-7), a junior who has committed to Texas, held Hudson scoreless for the first four innings. But Hudson scored six runs in the top of the fifth, then got a two-run home run from Alyssa Dotson in the seventh.