
YAKIMA DIAMOND CATS/Courtesy photo
Diamond Cats see lead, game slip away at Southeast Nationals
Cincinnati club rallies past Yakima, which sees stay at Tennessee tourney come to end
STAT HOUND
Jul 18, 2026
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. – Yakima’s stay at the USSSA Southeast Nationals tournament ended Saturday morning.
The STX Bombers of Cincinnati rallied for four runners in the fifth inning for a walk-off 7-6 victory, ousting the Diamond Cats from the tournament.
Trailing 1-0 after the first inning, Yakima took the lead in the second inning on Elise Heater’s RBI single. Heater would score on an error.
The Damond Cats played add-on in their next three bats, with Madi Statler’s RBI double to score Brooklynn Root, who had also doubled, in the third.
An inning later, Root smacked a two-run double to push Ashleigh James and Heater. Leila Cook later scored on an error to make it 6-1 Yakima. Heater doubled, while James reached on a fielder’s choice, and an error put Cook on first.
The Bombers, though, would rally themselves, with a pair of runs in the fourth and the decisive outburst in the fifth.
Yakima totaled eight hits – four of them doubles.
Ainsley Johnson went the distance on the mound for the Diamond Cats (17-8). Just three of the Bombers’ runs were earned, as they were aided by a pair of Yakima errors in their final at-bat.
