SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — Both the Edgewood and Lakeside softball teams had been mired in slumps. While one team was able to pull itself out of the quagmire, the other simply spun its tires on Saturday at the Lakeside Tournament.

The Warriors (16-3, 8-2 in Northeastern Conference) claimed two wins and the tournament championship, but more importantly, tallied 20 runs on 22 hits in beating Warren JFK, 5-0, and West Geauga, 15-0.

“We definitely woke up the slumbering bats,” Edgewood coach Shelley Monas said. “It’s something every team goes through. It’s never really happened to this group. It was just something difficult that we had to overcome.

“They know what they have to do. They just have to believe in their ability. They just can’t doubt themselves. The most important part (of the player) is the six inches between the ears.”

The Dragons (12-5, 7-2 in Premier Athletic Conference), on the other hand, scored a total of four runs on 14 hits in losses to the Wolverines, 4-3, and Eagles, 3-1.

“It was a lack of focus from the get-go today,” Lakeside coach Kerri Weir said.

In the championship, Edgewood scored in all five innings and scored at least a run in the last seven innings it batted. That streak comes on the heels of an 18-inning scoreless stretch.

After plating a run in the first, the Warriors exploded for seven runs in the second with catcher Liz Wilson and pitcher Megan Dragon (the first of her varsity career) each blasting two-run homers over the fences on the Dragons’ junior-varsity field.

“It felt good,” Dragon said. “Their coach had just told their center fielder to move in right before I hit it. I wanted to put it over her head. I didn’t expect it to go over.”

“It felt amazing,” Wilson said. “As soon as I hit it, it felt like it was going out.”

Lauren Childs slapped three hits and drove in three runs and Sam Kalil collected three hits and scored three runs in the game. Leanne Rose added two hits and two RBI.

“It took a while,” Childs said. “But when we did start scoring, we scored a bunch. We kept it up. After we started hitting (early in the first game), we kept our spirits up.”

Dragon held the Wolverines hitless in the five-inning affair. She struck out 12 and walked none. The batter to reach base did so after running into Edgewood first baseman Brittney Mackey, jarring the ball loose from her glove.

Mackey was taken by ambulance to Ashtabula County Medical Center. She was sore, but tests for serious head and neck injuries proved negative, according to Monas. Mackey is listed as day-to-day and will most likely have a stiff neck for several days, according to Monas.

Lakeside, with a team that shrank in number as the consolation game moved from inning to inning — the Dragons had to ready themselves for prom — was held to just a first-inning run.