Gar-Pal softball off to strong start

After winning five games last year to finish third in a four-team league, the Gar-Pal Vikings softball team has already won five this year.

Playing in Garfield Tuesday night, the Vikings (5-2) beat Troy in extra innings when Cassie Martin hit a game-winning shot for a 6-5 final score.

“It probably would’ve been a triple,” said fourth-year head coach Steve Witthuhn. “It was smoked out there.”

Martin did not need to finish the play because the run she drove in ended the game. The hit was her third of the afternoon.

On the mound, Chandler Pfaff pitched for the Vikings, going all eight innings wit...