A championship it is not but a third-place finish in the District 3-5A tournament is still a great accomplishment for the 2021 Elizabethtown softball team. The Lady Bears secured that distinction by knocking off Exeter Township by a 9-5 final on June 2nd, improving to 20-7 on the year.

As she has all season, Kristin Geesey manned the circle for E-town, scattering 14 hits while collecting five strikeouts to go with one walk and those five Lady Eagle runs. Geesey's help on the offensive side came from a quartet of Lady Bears led by Megan Gray and her three-hit, two RBI day. Gray just missed hitting for the cycle, instead kicking off her three-hit affair with a second inning triple that led to E-town's first run. Gray's first RBI, courtesy of a fifth inning double, helped the Lady Bears turn a 3-2 deficit into a 7-3 lead while her second RBI tacked on a final insurance run in the sixth.

Sydney Stewart was not part of the two RBI quartet, but she did push across E-town's first run with a fielder's choice in the second frame. Brooke Bryan and Ava Fair were part of that quartet, and both played a part in the game swinging fifth. Bryan capped the five-run burst with her lone hit, pushing Stewart and Gray across with her single and making it a 7-3 game. Fair got the fifth inning rally rolling, driving in Carli Zerphey and Geesey to give Elizabethtown their first lead of the contest while setting the stage for Gray and Bryan. Jess Zimmerman was the final member of the quartet, splitting her two RBIs with a third inning single and a sixth inning double.

That third-place district finish sent Elizabethtown into the PIAA-5A bracket opposite District 2 winner, West Scranton in the Lady Invaders backyard at Marywood University. The Lady Bears were unable to get their offense going and the result was a 6-2 loss that closed the book on the 2021 season for Elizabethtown.

With the offense sputtering the Lady Bears produced just five hits, never more than one in a single inning. One of those hits did come early as Geesey led off the game with a double that eventually led to a 1-0 lead thanks to Fair's bunt squeeze. That lead quickly evaporated as West Scranton plated two runs in the bottom of the first and followed with single runs in the second, third and fourth that made it a 5-1 game.

The Lady Invaders put one more run on the board in the sixth, effectively erasing E-town's fifth inning score. Sophia Finch picked up that fifth inning RBI, plating Stewart who had doubled to lead off the inning one batter prior. Geesey took the complete game loss, allowing six runs on nine hits to go with three walks and four strikeouts.