Softball: Crenshaw rallies on a bizarre play to tie Lincoln in seventh

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Crenshaw scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning and tied its City invitational championship game with Lincoln, 4-4, at UCLA’s Easton Stadium.

Through eight innings, it’s still tied at 4-4.

The title will be decided using the international tiebreaker, with a runner starting on second base.

Crenshaw’s big inning came with a run in, one out and the bases loaded. A pop-up to first would have been the second out, but the ball was dropped. The runner at first base took off to second and Lincoln played it like a force play. The runner from third and the runner who started from second both scored. The runner who began the play at first base tried to advance to third but was thrown out.

Again, that was all on one play. But two runners scored, and that was good enough for Crenshaw.

-- Martin Henderson