Live results: McNary, Dallas softball advance, plus Friday's OSAA scores

DALLAS — Kadence Morrison struck out six to lead Dallas/Falls City to a 3-1 OSAA 5A quarterfinals victory over Silverton on Friday afternoon.

Dallas head coach Brandi Jackson said after the win that it was “extremely difficult” facing someone in their league in a playoff.

“They (Silverton) have gotten progressively better as the years went on,” Jackson said. “So we knew it was going to be a nail biter.”

Dallas freshman Grace Walls got things started offensively with an RBI single in the second.

“She’s done really well putting the ball in play,” Jackson said of Walls, who joined the varsity squad midseason after a players‘ injury.

In the third, junior Chloe Zajac’s single up the middle drove in another run, giving the Dragons an insurance run.

The Foxes made it a one-run game in the fifth on Justina Semerikov’s infield single.

But Morrison‘s RBI double in the bottom of the fifth stretched Dallas’s margin to 3-1.

Meanwhile, on the mound Morrison got out of a crucial bases-loaded jam in the sixth, while striking out the final batter in the seventh.

“To see that, especially in a pressure situation, just goes to show how much growth and maturity she has had from last year,” Jackson said.

Dallas will travel to Pendleton where they will face No. 1 seed Pendleton / Griswold in the semifinals round on Tuesday.

SOFTBALL

Class 6A quarterfinals — Friday

• Tigard 5, Newberg 0

• McNary 2, Sheldon 0

• Oregon City 4, West Linn 3

• Bend 13, McMinnville 3

Class 5A quarterfinals — Friday

• Pendleton 10, The Dalles 0

• Dallas 3, Silverton 1

• Lebanon 10, Ridgeview 0

• Wilsonville 9, Eagle Point 1

Class 4A quarterfinals — Friday

• Marist 8, Henley 0

• Stayton 3, Astoria 0

• La Grande 9, Ontario 3

• Estacada at Cascade 7, Estacada 4

Class 3A quarterfinals — Friday

• Yamhill-Carlton 10, Enterprise 0

• Scio 11, Harrisburg 6

• Burns 7, Blanchet 0

• Taft at South Umpqua 10, Taft 3

Class 2A/1A quarterfinals — Friday

• Grant Union 15, Toledo 0

• Nestucca 13, Glide 12

• Kennedy 6, Union 2

• Lakeview 7, North Douglas 1

BASEBALL

Class 6A quarterfinals — Friday

• Lakeridge 2. Sherwood 1

• West Linn 5, Sheldon 4

• Canby 1, Mountainside 0

• Clackamas 6, Lake Oswego 1

Class 5A quarterfinals — Friday

• Lebanon 4, Pendleton 3

• Willamette 4, La Salle 3

• Crescent Valley 11, Thurston 5

• Wilsonville 11, Putnam 0

Class 4A quarterfinals — Friday

• Philomath 2, Banks 1

• Marist at La Grande 10, Marist 4

• Mazama 4, North Marion 3

• Hidden Valley 17, Junction City 0

Class 3A quarterfinals — Friday

• Blanchet 12, Cascade Christian 2

• Brookings-Harbor 8, Santiam 1

• Yamhill-Carlton 9, Pleasant Hill 8

• South Umpqua 6, St. Mary’s 1

Class 2A/1A quarterfinals — Friday

• Umpqua Valley Christian 11, Bandon 1

• Dufur 10, Neah-Kah-Nie 0

• Knappa 4, Regis 3

• Kennedy 6, Monroe 1

This article originally appeared on Salem Statesman Journal: Oregon's McNary, Dallas softball advance in OSAA quarterfinals