Lake Creek caps undefeated year with state crown: 'A perfect season is something no one ever thinks about'

The Lake Creek Lions softball team capped their undefeated 2021-2022 season on Saturday (June 4) with the school's first-ever state championship in the sport, according to a VYPE Houston report that was ran by Houston NBC affiliate KPRC.

The Lions made easy work of the Georgetown Eagles en route to a 7-0 victory in the Class 5A State Championship Game held at Red & Charline McCombs Field on campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the high school sports website reported.

VYPE Houston reported that the title came just three years after the varsity team played its inaugural game.

Lake Creek compiled a 41-0 overall record, to which junior Ava Brown said just happened as she and her teammates didn't seek perfection, per the report.

“I think a perfect season is something no one ever thinks about, no one ever knows if that’s going to come out of whatever you’re putting out there,” Brown told VYPE Houston. “That in itself is amazing. Being a state champion, anybody has that ability no matter how many games you win or how many games you lose. You can always become a state champion if you have the right mindset, and we all did.”

The website reported that Brown provided a spark for the Lions' offense, chipping in a two-run RBI in the seventh to seal the game and the championship for the young program.

Before that, VYPE Houston reported, Lake Creek pounced on Georgetown's comedy of errors to hold a 4-0 lead midway through the contest.

According to the report, the Lions' state-clinching victory is the 19th shutout of the season.

For head coach Michelle Rochinski, whose daughter Kalee plays catcher for the team, the title joins the Class 4A accolade she won when she helmed the team at Montgomery Independent School District (MISD) in 2012, VYPE Houston reported.

“We’ve dreamed of this," Rochinski told the website, recalling how she told a then-7-year-old Kalee how the same thing would happen to her. "Ten years ago, I was on this field with Montgomery and she was 7 years old. I got home and I told her one day this could be her. Ten years later it is her and we have the gold medal.”