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'That's a movie right there': Yorktown softball's unlikely hero leads Tigers to sectional title

ARCADIA, Ind. — It’s never been easy this season for Yorktown softball, so of course, Saturday’s sectional championship game at Hamilton Heights was no exception. And the player who stepped into a starring role to save the Tigers’ season was an unlikely hero.

All around Savannah Baker, the defense was crumbling. The Tigers tensed up in the final few innings, making five errors to allow a five-run lead to disappear – one of which was on an infield pop-up that would have ended the game. And up at the plate now, with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh and Yorktown clinging to a one-run lead, was Hayley Greene, the sophomore slugger with a .