STATE HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENTS: All the right moves — Position changes, freshmen stepping up have propelled Coeur d’Alene back to state in softball

“I knew Abbey Linder would be one of the best third basemans in the league, and I’ve been wanting to put her there eventually,” Darretta said. “Kyndal’s framing is fantastic, and I told Kyndal, ‘We need to give our pitchers strikes. We have young, inexperienced pitchers, and right now that’s our focus, the more strikes you can give them, the better they will be,’ so that’s what needed to happen.”