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TEMPE — The 4A-I state baseball title game ended in 10 innings after more than a dozen position and lineup changes, and a combined 28 hits and seven errors.

It ended with Tempe McClintock players and fans shrieking, posing for photos and hoisting the championship trophy.

It ended with Sahuaro players and coaches huddled for a final team meeting in the right corner of the outfield, after sixth-seeded McClintock prevailed 9-8 over the 12th-seeded Cougars at Tempe Diablo Stadium.

Sahuaro starting pitcher Kyle Waddell finally left the game after throwing 124 pitches, according to his coach's count, in the baking sun, after allowing a single to lead off the 10th inning.

McClintock then drew a walk from freshman reliever Andrew McKeever. Then a balk advanced both runners. Kyle Heckathorn drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly to center.

"It definitely stings," Sahuaro senior second baseman Dan Arrington said. "I know I put everything out there. I know everyone else put everything out there."

Sahuaro senior ace Pat McCoy was unavailable to pitch after throwing 96 pitches in a 2-1 state semifinal victory Friday over Canyon del Oro, leaving coach Mark Chandler to stick with Waddell. The 6-foot-4-inch right-hander gave up 17 hits, struck out two and walked one.

"He still had good velocity," Chandler said. "Myself and the pitching coach, Brit Echols, were keeping an eye on his location, the bite on his breaking ball. It wasn't a hard decision at all."

But by the 10th inning, Waddell was growing tired and his fastball was elevating, so Sahuaro (18-14-1) decided to turn to McKeever, its No. 3 starter.

"The guy threw great," McClintock coach Harold Bull said of Waddell. "That's one of the gutsiest performances I have seen. The kid deserves a tremendous amount of credit because he kept his club where they needed to be."

Waddell also did it with his bat, smashing a two-run triple in the three-run fifth that gave Sahuaro a 5-4 lead.

"I felt good," he said. "You just have to go with what you have."

McClintock tied it in the sixth and, after Alex Ferguson hit a go-ahead double in the eighth, the Chargers came back again in the eighth.

After Sahuaro scored two runs in the ninth, Jimmy Patterson tied the game again with a two-run homer that went more than 420 feet.

"It was not a one-sided game; it was a battle back and forth. Nothing to be ashamed of," Waddell said.