Emily Castle got plenty of work for Chandler's softball team this week and finally was rewarded for solid pitching with a W in Friday's contest with Mesa Mountain View.

Castle tossed a complete-game, two-hitter and her teammates rolled out four runs to snap a sixth-inning tie as the Wolves beat Mesa Mountain View, 5-1, in a 6A game at Chandler High.

Castle, a sophomore, has become Chandler's go-to in the circle. She pitched on the junior varsity as a freshman last year. and has seen an increased work load as this season's progressed. This week she started all theree games and pitched 16 2 /3 innings, allowing just two earned runs. The run allowed Friday was unearned. Her record improved to 7-1.

"(Castle) was outstanding today," second-year Chandler coach Jana Rae Slayton said. "We needed this one. The last two games (this week) didn't go our way. This team has come together putting in a lot of work. We're on a mission."

Chandler made it to the D-I state playoffs last year for the first time since 2012 and advanced to the elite eight before bowing out. 

Chandler (13-6-1, 4-3 power-ranking games), which lost games earlier this week to Millennium (3-2) and Mountain Pointe (10-6), stopped a three-game losing streak with the victory. Castle allowed the first two batters of the game to reach on a single and error, but proceeded to mow down the next 14 hitters in succession. That success protected a 1-0 lead shem was given in the first inning thanks to an RBI single from battery mate Rachel Brown.

Castle's streak of retired hitters ended with two outs in the fifth only because of two outfield misplays that combined to score Mountain View's lone run.

Chandler's bats caught fire in the bottom of the sixth off Mountain View's Paula Alapizco, who was doing her best to match Castle to that point.

Syd Babik's one-out single, a walk to Lilly Saucedo and Jaudrey Ah Quin's double put Chandler up 2-1. Abby Brumfiel then rifled a two-run single to right to push the advantage to 4-1. Brumfiel was thrown out at third after an error in right field. The uprising wasn't finished, however, as Desiree Arnold lifted a home run to dead center for the game's final tally.

Mountain View (9-10, 4-3 prg) was seeking a third win this week and its first three-game winning streak since 2013. The Toros upended Corona del Sol with a big, sixth-inning rally on Tuesday in a 6-3 victory and had their bats working Thursday in a 19-run outburst agaist Skyline. 

Other than Natalie Burley's first-inning single, one by Kenzie Fox in the sixth and the Chandler misplays on fly balls off the bats of Sarah Chapin and Jadie Carson, Mountain View was handcuffed by Castle. Carson made a nice catch in left in the third inning and Burley and Fox combined on a nice 4-6-3 double play to end a Chandler threat in the fourth.

"We couldn't string hits together," Mountain View coach Joe Goodman said. "Maybe we should have saved some hits from the Skyline game.