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Onalaska High School's summer softball team reached the championship game of a tournament for the third time in five tries this season Saturday, finishing second in the Coulee Region Girls Softball League's postseason tournament, which was conducted at Luther.

Onalaska advanced to the championship game with a 13-1 win over Lewiston, Minn. Onalaska took control early with 10 first-inning runs.

That was more than enough for Liz Burritt, who earned the win with three innings of one-hit, no-walk, four-strikeout pitching. Alyssa Snow allowed an unearned run in the fourth and final inning. Burritt, Kyla Fredrickson, Megan Wagner, Cedar Netwal, Tricia Madison and Alyssa Stauffer had safeties in Onalaska's six-hit attack.

Onalaska opened with an 8-0 win over Central II. Burritt tossed a complete-game two-hitter, striking out three against two walks.

Stauffer paced Onalaska's offense with four RBI's, a triple and a double. Madison also notched two hits. Burritt, Hailee Schanke, Fredrickson, Wagner and Harreld also had knocks.

Central I broke a 1-1 tie with two runs in the bottom of the fifth in a 3-2 win in the championship game. Onalaska had the tying run on base in the top of the sixth and final inning after a Fredrickson single drove in Burritt, but Onalaska's couldn't complete the comeback.

Onalaska took the initial lead in the first. Schanke doubled and scored on an errant throw.

Burritt had her best outing in terms of strikeouts and walks with seven punchouts and no walks in a complete game. Just one of the three runs she allowed was earned.

Wagner also had a hit for Onalaska. Onalaska completed its season with a doubleheader at Tomah Wednesday evening (after the Community Life deadline).