Arizona high school softball produced a wild one earlier this week when
South Mountain (Phoenix) beat
Metro Tech (Phoenix) 54-39 in one of the highest-scoring games in national history.
Richard Obert of the Arizona Republic reports that the game included 527 total pitches, 64 walks and 14 strikeouts.
"It was a wild game," South Mountain coach James Irvine told Obert. "The umpire had a pretty consistent tight strike zone and my pitchers just couldn't find it."
The victory snapped a 13-game losing streak for South Mountain.
This contest came just five days after the same two teams combined for 46 runs in a 33-13 win for Metro Tech.
According to the National Federation of High Schools Record Book, the national record for combined runs in a game is 94. That game went down in 1983 in Maine with
Washington Academy (East Machias) beating now-defunct Lubec Consolidated 88-6.
