The Bartram Trail softball team used a seventh-inning stand to pull off a program-first on Friday night.

It'll be one that the Bears don't forget for awhile either.

Bartram weathered a furious comeback attempt by Paxon, surviving for a 4-3 victory and a spot in Tuesday night's Class 4A regional final against Wakulla.

Reaching the regional final round is a nice feat in itself, but making four in a row is something that the Bears had never pulled off before until Friday. In fact, it's a milestone streak reached by just four other programs from North Florida (Eagle's View, Providence, Trinity Christian and West Nassau).

How the Bears got there will be just as memorable.

Bartram (28-2) took a 4-0 lead into the top of the seventh but actually found itself in a situation where Paxon had the go-ahead runner at the plate. Error-free until that point, Bartram struggled with three straight miscues to open the inning. Instead of taking their second consecutive playoff shutout into the regional final, the Bears were clawing just to keep their lead.

"I don't even know what I was thinking (in the seventh)," said Bartram's Laura Campion, the night's offensive star following a 2-for-3 performance with three RBIs and the winning run in the sixth inning.

"I was just like, my stomach's just turning out there. But we always come together."

Pitcher Chelsey Pedley made two of those mistakes on routine grounders and force-out situations. She fielded both balls cleanly, checked the baserunners and then went after the runner at first. Both times, the throws were short.

Sarah McClain followed with the only hit of the inning, a single into center field. By the time Bartram knew it, the Bears' four-run lead had evaporated into a tense 4-3 game with no outs. Pedley said that moment was the wakeup call of the season and she responded accordingly.

Pedley induced a fly out that she caught, followed by a fielder's choice and then a long pop out to deep center to end it.

"I was hoping for another shutout," said Pedley, who teamed with Megan Bristow to no-hit Bishop Kenny in Wednesday's 7-0 win.

"It's always the seventh inning (that she struggles with). I always get so excited. It's all about composure. I need to be more composed. I definitely love having my defense behind me. I just need to work on my defense."

Coach Jen Harman said that she was happy with how Pedley bounced back after the Bears ran into trouble.

"They're a good team; she a great job on the mound facing them," Harman said. "And our defense behind her is solid. We just can't panic in the seventh."

Bartram was airtight on defense for six innings and used that to stave off the hot-hitting Eagles, who had outscored their final four opponents by a combined 58-4.

Paxon was poised to grab a lead in the top of the second. A stand-up triple by Nikki Ochoa put a runner in scoring position with one out.

Ochoa wouldn't make it in, getting thrown out at the plate by Kelsey Chisholm on the following batter. First baseman Savannah McCormack had a leaping grab of a liner in the sixth, and catcher Hayley Craven picked a runner off second base on the following play.

Clinging to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth, Bartram got a major offensive boost. Campion, who drove in Bartram's first two runs with a liner between the pitcher-shortstop gap in the fourth, responded with her second big hit of the game -- a single straight up the middle of the field to drive in a run.

Campion would later come around to score on a single by Craven, sliding under the tag at the plate. Campion said that she was due for a big hit because she was anticipating an offspeed pitch from Paxon's Ochoa.

"I knew it was coming; I knew she was pitching a changeup," Campion said. "I literally said it out loud, 'just wait.' The umpire and catcher probably laughed when I said it. I just had to be patient and wait on my pitch."

Outside of Campion, Chisholm and Libby Crowe had two hits apiece for the Bears. Joanna Malandrucco doubled and scored. McCormack also doubled.