Thursday, May 28, 2009

By NJS.com Staff

FRANKLIN LAKES -- Welcome to The SportsZone, NJS.com's video feature that is the baby of Matt Small, a Miami University communications student, former Rutherford High School baseball player and regular NorthJerseySports.com contributor during a summer internship.

We have The SportsZone slated as a weekly feature with an accumulation of highlights, but then there are those games that are too good to leave sitting around like Wednesday's North 1, Group 3 state sectional softball semifinal between Ramapo and Pascack Valley.

There was brilliant pitching performances by both PV's Brittany DeMaio and Ramapo's Juile Shaw, sparkling defense by both teams, a collision at the plate, the added pressure of the state tournament, the memory of the Bergen County Tournament final from earlier this week and, of course, Shaw's walkoff homer in the bottom of the 10th inning that kept Ramapo's postseason alive and ended Pascack Valley's in one swing of the bat. See for yourself.