GREENVILLE, N.C. — Midway Little League will bring another banner with it back to Texas.
Monday, Midway won the Little League Softball World Series championship game against Delmar Little League from Maryland 5-4 in seven innings.
Midway scored four unanswered runs, taking a 4-3 lead in the top of the fourth inning.
Maryland then tied the game in the fifth inning before leading off the bottom of the sixth inning with a single. Midway's star pitcher Zaneria Hughes got a huge strikeout to help them get out of the inning unscathed.
Hughes then hit in a run to take a 5-4 lead in the top of the extra inning. But, in the bottom half of the seventh, Maryland had two runners on with two outs before Hughes fielded a chopper to end the game.
It's Midway's 12th Little League Softball World Series title, the 13th for a Waco-area team.