P-G: Mt. Lebanon will get a chance to defend its title

The defending WPIAL and PIAA champion Blue Devils are headed back to the playoffs.

Mt. Lebanon softball coach Nicole Fajtak is not sure if her team will be viewed as the reigning queens of the diamond or viewed more by their 7-10 overall record.

"I hope we have earned respect even if our record looks very deceiving," Fajtak said. "I don't know how we are going to be viewed, but what happened last year gets forgotten really quickly."

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Mt. Lebanon's Coach Didn't Need A Great Speech To Motivate Players To PIAA Title

Mt. Lebanon softball coach Nicole Fajtak didn't summon her inner Vince Lombardi in the moments before her team took the field at the PIAA Class AAAA championship. She didn't tell her players to win one for the Gipper or that this was the most important game of their lives. Her message was simple.

"I just said to them, 'Look, we've come this far. I know you won't accept anything but winning at this point,'" she said. "There was no great motivational speech, no great words. I just said you won't accept anything else." They didn't.

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