Rain doesn’t stop Providence softball from earning share of league title
Fabi Jimenez and the Providence High softball team won a three-way share of the Liberty League title.
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In was an anticlimactic way for the Providence High softball team to earn a share of the Liberty League championship.
However, after a nine-year title drought, the Pioneers will take it.
Coming into Friday, the Pioneers were in a three-way tie for first place in league with Pacifica Christian and Archer, with all three squads possessing 7-2 league marks.
Providence, which is 11-5-1 overall, was scheduled to take on Oakwood on Friday at Olive Park in its regular season finale. However, the game was called off because of poor playing conditions on the field.
Similarly, Archer and Pacifica Christian were also scheduled to finish their league campaigns with games Thursday and Friday, but those two contests were also rained out.
Administrators at all three schools decided not to reschedule the games and, because the squads split games among one another, all three were crowned tri-league champions.
It is the first league title for Providence since 2006.
“In the last games for the three of us, we were all playing teams that we beat pretty easily before,” said Providence Coach Joel Curtis, whose team beat Oakwood, 17-1, in the teams’ first meeting of the year. “I don’t want to say that it was pretty certain that we would all get wins in our final games, but it really looked that way. So that’s the way they decided to make us all co-league champions.
“Any time you can win a league title it’s an accomplishment, no matter it you have to share it with another team, or in this case, two other teams. Our girls have worked really hard for this and it’s really nice for our seniors.”
Along with deciding on the league-title situation, the schools also worked out the placement for the teams in the CIF Southern Section playoffs, with the pairings set to be released Monday. Providence has earned the No. 2 seed from the Liberty League, which Archer the No. 1 entrant and Pacific Christian No. 3.
“The bad thing about not playing the game Friday was it was senior night and we really wanted to honor our seniors,” Curtis said. “But going in as No. 2 from our league hopefully we will have a home game for the playoffs and we can honor them then.”
