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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO \u2013 Sometimes, the best plan is to just take care of yourself and let everything else sort itself out.<\/p>\n

Read more CIF-SS softball playoffs: Thursday\u2019s first-round scores, Friday\u2019s schedule<\/a><\/p>\n

That was the formula for JSerra on Thursday in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 softball playoffs.<\/p>\n

JSerra took care of business. It hit the ball, it fielded the ball, it scored more runs than Yucaipa. The Lions took a 3-2 victory on an afternoon that could have been their last of the season.<\/p>\n

Instead, JSerra put the ball in play, and the jitters, nerves \u2013 whatever you want to call it \u2013 that Yucaipa brought with it on its 60-mile bus ride was the downfall of the Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n

After Annabel Raftery\u2019s leadoff double in the bottom of the first inning, Yucaipa committed three errors. Two throwing errors came on Magenta De Arte\u2019s pop single to left that staked JSerra to a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

JSerra added another run in the second inning on what was scored a bunt single followed by a two-out RBI by Raftery.<\/p>\n

Yucaipa didn\u2019t think JSerra scored any earned runs against pitcher Brooklyn Dent. Earned or not, JSerra had three total, which was one more than it needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur chemistry was a little off in the first inning,\u201d Thunderbirds coach Alyssa Liu said. \u201cI think they were in their heads to come here, I don\u2019t think they were ready. We started scared. Nerves is all it was.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs coaches, we knew it was going to be a close game. We wanted to play them. We weren\u2019t scared to play them. We knew it was going to be a good game, and it was a great game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yucaipa\u2019s scoring was a bit more decisive and gave the Thunderbirds a real chance at an upset. In the fourth inning, cleanup hitter Liberty Waysz belted a one-out double to left field. An out later, Sophia Bicondova cleared the center field fence \u2014 marked at 210 feet \u2014 into the wind to make it a 3-2 score.<\/p>\n

Read more Softball playoffs roundup: Huntington Beach wins on walk-off single; El Toro\u2019s Hayden Jo Stofle throws no-hitter<\/a><\/p>\n

It gave life to Yucaipa (21-7-1), but set up the Thunderbirds to forever look back at the pivotal first inning and wonder \u201cWhat if?\u201d<\/p>\n

JSerra (21-8) won\u2019t lose any sleep over it. The Lions move into the second round against the winner of Ayala and Charter Oak. JSerra will play Ayala at home or Charter Oak on the road.<\/p>\n

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JSerra lost in the Division 2 finals last season, and the Division 1 semifinals the year before.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the potential to win the whole thing, we have the talent,\u201d JSerra coach Katie Stith said. \u201cWe know we can play with any of them. We\u2019re trying to go to the end. That\u2019s our standard. We just have to worry about ourselves, staying loose, not trying to do too much, and sticking to what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The thing they do is win.<\/p>\n

JSerra senior Liliana Escobar gave up two earned runs in seven innings with eight strikeouts and a walk. She allowed five hits.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we got those two runs we were able to settle in a little bit, though we went a little flat,\u201d Escobar said. \u201cThere\u2019s always off days. I don\u2019t think there was a specific reason for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two runs at the beginning were great, but we had to battle through the whole game. I don\u2019t think there was a point in the game where we thought it was over until it was completely over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dent, a junior committed to UNLV, gave up five hits with a walk and two strikeouts in six innings. Two of the hits were bunts that were beaten out.<\/p>\n

Read more Clarence Carter, soul singer known for \u2018Patches\u2019 and \u2018Strokin\u2019,\u2019 dies at 90<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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