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Hopkins homers way to Lake Conference title

By Brian Stensaas, Star Tribune, 05/17/11, 4:18PM CDT

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Royals clinch title with five-homer performance over Wayzata

The Hopkins softball team didn't just clinch the Lake Conference championship last week. The Royals did so with an exclamation point – or five.

Playing at Wayzata, a slow-pitch softball field with a temporary fence erected about 200 feet out from home plate, Hopkins jumped out to a 10-1 lead thanks to five home runs.

Bianca Peterson homered twice and Hayley Nybo hit a moon-shot that cleared the temporary fence and hit the permanent fence behind it.

"That was a bomb," Royals coach Anne Campbell said. "The girls on the team couldn't believe she hit the man-fence. That's what they call it because that's the fence for the slow-pitch men."

Wayzata rallied, however, clubbing three homers of its own to pull within a two runs before Hopkins closed out the victory.

The eight home runs left Campbell shaking her head.

"And there wasn't any wind blowing," Campbell said. "I've been coaching 33 years and I've never seen anything like that. You talk about the bats and the 3 extra feet from the [pitching] rubber make, there's your proof."

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