From Staff Reports

SPOKANE, Washington — Monrovia High School’s Elise McCarthy hit two home runs to power the Arcadia 14U softball travel team to a 3-2 win over Idaho’s Couer d’Alene Crush to win the Amateur Softball Association of America 14U national championship Saturday night.

Arcadia trailed 1-0 in the bottom of the fourth before McCarthy’s two-run home run, followed by a solo shot in the fifth to make it 3-1. Arcadia scored 76 runs and allowed only five unearned runs in a span of seven games played.