Not a lot of hitting Wednesday night by either team, but enough base runners for Red Mountain to scratch out a couple runs and knock off  Mountain View in the winners' bracket final of the Division I state softball tournament.

Red Mountain scored once in the third and once in the sixth to back the two-hit pitching of Bre Macha to take a 2-0 win over Mountain View at Rose Mofford Softball Complex.

Red Mountain (32-5) now waits until Monday May 13 to see who it will face in the D-I title game at ASU's Farrington Stadium.It will be the fifth consecutive year Red Mountain has reached the big-school final. The Lady Lions have won the last three titles and were runner-up the year before. Red Mountain takes on the winner of the Friday May 10 losers' bracket game between No. 14 Chaparral and No. 5 Mountain View (27-7) for the title.That game is set for 7:30 p.m. at Rose Mofford. 

"Five straight, it's what you work for," Red Mountain coach Rich Hamilton said of being a title-game participant. "Your goal is to get  to that game."

Macha, a junior, matched up for the umteenth time with Mountain View senior Val Kaff for the right to go to ASU next week. Kaff pitched well as usual. She fanned 12, walked six and allowed six hits. She pitched out of a couple jams, but an errant throw and a fly ball that might have been caught provided Red Mountain its runs. Macha gave up two singles -- to Sid Ryan and Kaff. She walked one and struck out. nine. Only one Mountain View base runner (five in all)reached second base.

Red Mountain scored its first run using a single by TJ Beeson, a two-out single by Jordan Beck and a couple errors after Mountain View tried to throw out Beeson at third on Beck's hit. Beck got in a rundown between first and second and Kinsey Ryan's throw to second was dropped. The ensuing throw home to get Beeson as she broke for the plate was wild.

McKenzy Gutierrez singled  to leadoff the Red Mountain sixth and scored on a long two-out fly to right by Alyssa Fernandez. The ball was about two feet short of the fence and the Lady Toros Maria Serrano appeared to be in position to catch it. The ball fell just behind her and Gutierrez scored easily from first.

"That was a big at-bat for Fernandez," Hamilton said. "Val struck her out the first three times, but she came back and was able to hit that one hard. It was a big run."

Red Mountain has beaten Mountain View 10 of the last 12 times they've met in the last three seasons. The Lady Lions have won all three this year. They came closest in this one, after 4-1 and 8-0 losses earlier.

"We had better swings this time against Bre," Mountain View coach Joe Goodman said. "We couldn't string any hits together. We made a couple mistakes and they got their runs. Unlike the last two times, we didn't crumble after a bad inning. Brushed ourselves off and stayed in it to the end."