AURORA | The Cherokee Trail and Eaglecrest softball teams met to decide the Centennial League championship and both squads will also be home Friday for Class 5A regional postseason tournaments.

The Cougars prevailed over the Raptors 1-0 Oct. 9 to win a third consecutive league championship, as Sydney Cobb threw a complete game with 15 strikeouts. The pitching duel between Cobb and Eaglecrest’s Haisley Elliott was decided in the fifth inning when Peyton Contes tripled and pinch runner Abby Anderson scored on a mishandled grounder (full game story, here ).

Cherokee Trail (18-4) capped the regular season the next day with a 12-2 win over ThunderRidge and moved into the No. 2 spot in the Colorado High School Activities Association’s Seeding Index, which determined the entire 32-team field

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