MEDFORD – The Roseburg Indians summer softball team became the first team from Oregon to win the ASA Western Nationals by defeating the Rocky Mountain Thunder of Colorado 8-0 on Sunday morning in Medford.

The Indians went undefeated at the tournament and finished the year with a 24-game winning streak.

Roseburg closed the game out early thanks to the 8-run mercy rule. Leading 5-0, Nicki Derrick of North Douglas High School led off the bottom of the sixth inning with a double. A sacrifice bunt put Derrick onto third base and a suicide squeeze bunt by Katie Ladd from Roseburg High made it 6-0.

In the very next at bat, Kalie Mann of South Umpqua High School hit a walk-off two-run homer to bring the game to an end.

Madysn Blevins from RHS pitched all six innings for Roseburg and allowed three hits, while striking out five.

McKenzie Norton went 3-for-3 to lead Roseburg at the plate. Ladd, Mann, Derrick, and Maria Bacigalupo all had two hits for the Indians.

The Roseburg team finished the season 37-5 overall and didn’t lose a game for almost a month to end the season.

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*NOTE: This was the end of the season for the Roseburg summer softball team. It was previously reported that the team would qualify for a national tournament in Florida if it won the Western Regional, but that was incorrect.