SCHOFIELD — No. 1 D.C. Everest is one game away from their first-ever WIAA state softball appearance after downing No. 5 Chippewa Falls 2-1 in an extra-inning thriller on Monday, June 2.

Addison Kluck, the back-to-back Wisconsin Valley Conference player of the year, led the way for the Evergreens, pitching a complete game with zero earned runs, and 11 batters sent away. She notched her twelfth consecutive double-digit strikeout performance.

Chippewa Falls and the Evergreens were both scoreless entering the sixth inning, until Chippewa Falls capitalized with a double that scored the go-ahead run. The Evergreens, hitless until the sixth inning, answered when Sydney Spear drove in Brooke Brown with a ground ball made successful via error, tying the game at 1-1 entering the seventh.

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