Goose eggs. Twenty-one goose eggs. It all added up to a state baseball championship for the Williston Coyotes.

The Coyotes blanked Fargo South 1-0 on Saturday night at Memorial Ballpark to win their first state baseball title. Williston had never before played in the Class A final.

Right-hander Shawn Egge and lefty Trevor Sorenson combined on Saturday's whitewashing. Egge, a junior, went the first four innings, blanking the Bruins on one hit. Sorenson, a senior who threw a 97-pitch 2-0 shutout against defending champion Dickinson on Friday night, took over in the fifth. Sorenson held South to two hits the rest of the way, giving him 10 shutout innings for the tournament.

South certainly didn't hand the game to Williston. The Bruins stranded two runs each in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings.

In the fifth the Bruins appeared ready to take the lead with the bases loaded and one out. Sorenson walked Brian Matthews with one out and Aaron Hall grounded a single to left, Matthews holding at second. Justin Fahy grounded another base hit to left field, and Matthews was held at third base.

With Brady Meyers at the plate, coach Donn Bryant put a suicide squeeze on with the count 2-and-1. Matthews got a big jump, but Meyers popped a high, outside pitch high in the air. Shortstop Jordan Braun snared the pop-up, narrowly averting a collision with Sorenson. Sorenson continued on to third base, where Braun's throw completed a back-breaking double play.

"I saw (Matthews) coming out of the corner of my eye and I heard (third baseman Alex Hanson) yell, so I knew I'd better not give him a good pitch," Sorenson said.

Sorenson said he was just a hair's breadth from crashing into Braun.

"Jordan scared the crap out of me," he said. "- I went (on) to third because that was the easiest play."

All told, South stranded seven runners.

Williston carved out its precarious 1-0 lead in the fourth inning, thanks to a South error.

Braun slapped a ground ball that shortstop Aaron Hall bobbled to start the inning.

Quinn Devlin sacrificed Braun to second and cleanup man Doug Richter delivered a run-scoring double to left-center.

Sorenson said he wouldn't have conceived of three state tournament shutouts in his wildest dreams.

"No way," he said. "We didn't even know who we were going to pitch. We just threw people out there and tried to get the job done."

Sorenson, the tournament MVP, said his arm was cooperative when it came time to take the mound with just 26 hours rest.

"It felt good. It was just stiff and I thought it would work its way out and it did," he said. "After warmups I was good."

Williston coach Brad Westphal said his defense could take a big bow, right along with the pitching staff.

"I don't think we had an error this tournament," he said. "I couldn't have asked for anything more. The last two nights were tough ballgames and the kids hung with it. We had some great defense and some great pitching."

The championship was Williston's first. The Coyotes hadn't finished higher than fourth previously.

South was shooting for its third championship. The Bruins last won in 1998.

Williston closed the season with 10 wins in its last 13 games and finished 23-12. South ended with the state's best record at 24-6.

Williston 000 100 0 - 1 5 0

Fargo South 000 000 0 - 0 3 1

Shawn Egge, Trevor Sorenson (5) and Doug Richter; Adam Erickson, Jacob Edland (5), David Enst (5), Max Rusch (7) and Matt Beneke. W - Egge, 2-0. L - Erickson, 4-2. Save - Sorenson. HR - None.

Highlights: W - Richter 1-for-3, double, 1 RBI; James Laqua 1-for-3, 1 SB; Sorenson 1-for-3, double; 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 1 SO; Egge 4 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 3 SO. FS - Aaron Hall 2-for-3; Erickson 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO;

Records: Williston 23-12, FS 24-6.