Florida high school softball: Evangelical Christian wins second straight Class 1A title

Wednesday's Class 1A title game between Evangelical Christian and Geneva School combined for 31 runs in a slugfest at Boombah-Soliders Creek Park in Longwood.

ECS celebrates after winning the Class 1A state softball championship 17-14 over Geneva of Casselberry on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. / Rok Baller LLC/Special to The News-Press / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

LONGWOOD, Fla..- There were records broken and history made in Wednesday's Florida Class 1A softball state championship game between Evangelical Christian School out of Fort Myers and The Geneva School out of Kissimmee.

The top-seed in Class 1A Evangelical Christian won their second consecutive state title in an absolute slugfest outlasting The Geneva School, 17-14.

The 17 runs from the Sentinels are the most runs scored in a state championship game since 2019, when Trinity Christian Academy (Jacksonville) when the Conquerors, defeated Westminster Christian, 16-0, as well as in 1989 when Naples defeated Brandon 16-0. The combined 31 runs are the most in a state championship game since 2014 when American Heritage Plantation outlasted Belleview, 11-10 and in 2012 where 21 runs were combined.

Evangelical Christian (28-3) made the Final Four for the fourth consecutive year and this was their third consecutive state championship game appearance, having lost in 2023, and won in 2024.

The scoring started in the top of the first inning for Geneva (22-4), where senior infielder Emma Bastian connected on a solo home run as part of a four-run inning for the Knights. Sophomore Chloe Incinelli followed up with an RBI double, and then eighth-grader Eden Bastian followed up with a two-run double to extend the Knights' lead to 4-0.

The Sentinels responded with three runs of their own in the bottom half, led by sophomore shortstop Karsyn Mootz, who drove in two of the team's three runs in the opening frame with a two-run home run. Mootz went on to drive in six runs for the game, where she followed up with a two-RBI triple and a two-run single.

Going into the bottom of the fifth inning, the Sentinels trailed 14-12 before sophomore infielder Sam Yzaguirre came through with her second home run of the season to give the Sentinels a 16-14 lead.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, Mootz gave her teammates a key insurance run with her second triple of the contest

Junior pitcher Hayden Billie pitched two scoreless innings for the Sentinels to finish off the complete game despite giving up 14 runs, with 13 of them earned, walking four, and finished with five strikeouts.

Seventh grader Dallas Esperas had a tough outing for the visiting Knights, where she allowed 10 runs (10 earned runs), nine hits, and five walks, lasting just three innings.

Eighth grader Bella Ortiz came onto pitch for three innings, allowing just seven runs with all of them earned, seven hits, three walks, and striking out six in relief.

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