STATE CENTER — When Lillian Fischer launched a three-run home run in last year’s Rose Festival Tournament final, it gave the West Marshall softball team a momentary lead in an eventual 10-inning loss to East Marshall.

This year’s two-run bomb by Fischer was the finishing touch the Trojans needed to end the streak.

Sophomore pitcher Aubree Greenwood held East Marshall (15-7) to just two hits and West Marshall knocked off the Mustangs 4-0 in Saturday’s championship game, ending the Trojans’ string of 11 consecutive losses to their cross-county rivals.

West Marshall (13-7) broke the ice with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth inning, and the Trojans punched through with three insurance runs in the sixth.

Fischer’s no-doubter over the left-field fence was the pièce de résistance.

West Marshall went down in order in three of its first four at-bats as East Marshall pitcher Peyton Grabenbauer and her defense held firm. In the fifth, Rachel Randall reached with a one-out single and moved up on Olivia Randall’s sacrifice bunt.

With two outs, eighth-grader Ashtyn Blood blooped a single to right field, scoring Rachel Randall as the game’s first run.

The Trojans broke it open in the sixth. Lily Zahnd was hit by a pitch with one out, and Fischer followed three pitches later with her second homer of the season. Amelia Ranson rattled the fence in left-center field with a double, and Riley Randall’s single through the middle scored her for the 4-0 lead.

Greenwood pitched around a one-out walk in the seventh, bookending the inning with strikeouts to close out West Marshall’s first win over East Marshall since 2017.

Blood had two of the Trojans’ seven hits in support of Greenwood, who struck out nine and walked three in the win.

Ashtyn Wheater hit a two-out single in the first and Bailey Grant got a leadoff double in the second, but both runners were stranded on base.

Grabenbauer allowed four earned runs on seven hits and a hit batter while striking out four.

Pleasantville 9, MHS 0

Harper McGraw hit a three-run home run to finish off Pleasantville’s 9-0, six-inning victory over Marshalltown in the consolation final of the Rose Festival Softball Tournament on Saturday night.

The Bobcats (8-12) managed just two hits in the shutout loss, but still stranded nine runners on base. Olivia Wise and Briley Danielson hit back-to-back one out singles in the top of the sixth, and Brooklyn Smith walked to load the bases, but the key hit never came for MHS.

Pleasantville (11-7) scored twice in the first inning and twice more in the fourth, and the Trojans finally finished off the win with five runs in the sixth.

Four-straight hits chased Hanna Osgood from the circle, and Charlotte Reyes was unable to get out of the jam. After an error, McGraw delivered the finishing blow with her three-run homer.

Kally Wysong struck out three, walked five and hit a batter for Pleasantville. Osgood gave up seven runs on 11 hits and two walks while striking out four in the loss.

West Marshall 13, MHS 3

West Marshall claimed its fourth-straight win in the series with Marshalltown, battering the Bobcats 13-3 in four innings in the first round of Saturday’s Rose Festival Tournament.

The Trojans tallied 13 hits and grabbed ahold of this game with eight runs in the second inning.

Marshalltown led entering the second, 2-1, before falling behind for good. Abby Janssen and Laney Danielson walked, and Janssen’s courtesy runner Rayelle Brott scored after a pair of wild pitches. Aubree Mundt followed with an RBI single, and the Bobcats led 2-0.

West Marshall cut the deficit in half with Amelia Ranson’s RBI single scoring Lily Zahnd, who had walked, with two outs in the bottom half of the first.

The game got away from the Bobcats in the second, when West Marshall racked up eight runs on seven hits. Amelia Ranson’s bases-clearing double was the decisive blow, while Riley, Rachel and Olivia Randall all followed with run-scoring singles.

Run-scoring doubles by Lillian Fischer and Ranson sparked the Trojans in the third, and Alayna Frederick’s RBI double drove in Olivia Randall, who also had doubled, as the game-ending run in the bottom of the fourth.

Ranson finished 3-for-3 with two doubles, two runs and five RBIs, while Olivia Randall was 3-for-3 with a double, two runs and an RBI. Fischer had a single, a double, two runs and two RBIs, and leadoff batter Jillian Karsjen was 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.

West Marshall eighth-grader Cailyn Brown earned the win in the circle for 3 2/3 innings of work in relief of Taylor Thomas. Brown allowed one run on two hits and two walks while striking out four.

Briley Danielson took the loss for MHS, allowing nine runs on eight hits and three walks over two innings, striking out one. Charlotte Reyes pitched an inning, and Kam Price got one out before West Marshall ended the game by mercy rule.

East Marshall 3, Pleasanville 0

Peyton Grabenbauer went 4-for-4 at the plate and pitched a four-hitter as East Marshall blanked Pleasantville 3-0 in the first game of Saturday’s Rose Festival Tournament.

Grabenbauer and the Mustangs allowed only one Pleasantville baserunner to advance as far as third base as the Trojans stranded seven runners on. Grabenbauer pitched all seven innings for the win, walking three while striking out four.

She also hit two doubles and two singles, driving in a run, and her courtesy runner Amiya Kluck scored once.

East Marshall had 12 hits but stranded eight runners on base. Delaney Ryan was 2-for-3 with an RBI, while Bailey Grant doubled and scored. Miyah Grabenbauer was 2-for-4 with a triple and a run scored. Vaeda Bryan singled and scored as well.