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HARRISBURG — They had to come from behind to do it, but the La Pine Hawks nailed down the outright Mountain Valley Conference baseball championship Wednesday with a 7-4 victory over Harrisburg.

Jake Farnsworth was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, and the senior left-hander struck out the side in order in the seventh inning to secure the win — and La Pine’s second straight league title.

The Class 3A No. 2-ranked Hawks trailed 4-1 after three innings but rallied for three runs in the sixth to tie the score and three more in the seventh to take the lead. Farnsworth came on in relief in the bottom of the seventh to close the door as La Pine finished the MVC season with a record of 11-1.

Eddie Price was 2-for-4 with three RBIs, and Angelo Roes had two hits and scored two runs for the Hawks (18-2 overall).

La Pine plays a nonconference doubleheader at Sisters on Friday, then awaits a home conference playoff game on May 18.

Also Wednesday:

Baseball

Summit 11, Redmond 0: With Hayden Love and Wolf Meckem combining for four hits and four RBIs, the Storm cruised to an Intermountain Conference win. Shane Norton scattered five hits and struck out four in a complete game for Summit, and Drew Steelhammer had two hits. The Storm (12-3 IMC, 12-10 overall) sit half a game behind Bend (12-2 IMC) for first place in the league standings, while Redmond (3-11, 7-16) dropped 1½ games back of Mountain View (4-9 IMC) for third. The top three teams in the IMC advance to the Class 5A postseason.

Bend 17, Ridgeview 7: The Class 5A No. 10-ranked Lava Bears pounded out 17 hits en route to an Intermountain Conference victory. Cooper Simmonds paced Bend (12-2 IMC, 16-6 overall) by going 4-for-4 with two doubles and five RBIs. The Bears’ Steve Talamantes also went 4-for-4, finishing with a double and five RBIs. Reece Gordon was 4-for-5 with three doubles for the winners, and Cole Frey singled, doubled and drove in three runs for Bend, which maintained a half-game lead over Summit (12-3 IMC) for first place in the IMC. Hudson Harbolt was 2-for-3 for visiting Ridgeview (4-10, 6-17), which dropped half a game behind Mountain View (4-9 IMC) for third in the league standings. The top three teams advance to the Class 5A postseason. Also for the Ravens, Nolan Merritt and Kevin Edmonson both doubled and drove in a run, and Ben Gunnels had two RBIs.

Softball

Summit 15, Redmond 14: Molly Wasserman’s fourth hit of the game was a run-scoring single in the bottom of the seventh inning that gave Summit a walk-off Intermountain Conference win. Wasserman’s one-out hit to left-center field drove home Hailey Nelson with the decisive run, capping a two-run rally to counter a four-run Redmond top half of the seventh that put the visiting Panthers up 14-13. Kiki Fierstos’ third double of the game plated two runs in Redmond’s seventh-inning uprising. Tiana Waller was 4-for-5 with five RBIs for the Storm (3-12 IMC, 4-17 overall), and Nelson, Amanda Mellor and Grace Dealy also had four hits apiece for the winners. Gianna Viola had three RBIs for Summit. Fierstos was 4-for-5 and Savannah Mills was 3-for-4 for Redmond (6-9, 8-15), which remains half a game behind Bend in the race for third place and the IMC’s final postseason slot.

Ridgeview 12, Bend 3: Sage McVay went 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI, Allicite Frost was 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI, and Ridgeview picked up its 20th straight win with an Intermountain Conference victory. Ally Henry had two hits for the Class 5A No. 7-ranked Ravens (14-0 IMC, 20-1 overall), and Marley Sargent and Kiani Nakamura each had a hit and two RBIs. Jessie Wiest homered in the fifth inning for Bend (6-8, 9-14-1), while McKenzie Bradley, Madilynn Weisner, Olivia Dority and Maya Eliff all had singles. With two games left in the regular season, the Lava Bears are one game behind Mountain View (7-7 IMC) for second in the league standings and are half a game up on Redmond (6-9 IMC) for third. The top three teams in the IMC advance to the 5A postseason.

Harrisburg 8, La Pine 0: HARRISBURG — Evie Toruno’s late-inning single broke up a no-hitter, but that was the only hit of the day for La Pine in a Mountain Valley Conference loss to Class 3A No. 9-ranked Harrisburg. The Hawks (6-7 MVC, 11-12 overall) had won five of six coming into Wednesday’s contest and remain in third place going into Friday’s home game against fourth-place Coquille, a game that will determine the home team for the first round of the MVC playoffs on Tuesday.