Webb City outlasted McDonald County 7-6 in 10 innings in the championship softball game of the MSHSAA Class 4 District 12 Tournament on Saturday.

The Cardinals, although outhit 16-9, were errorless in the field and finally subdued the equally determined Mustangs in the chill — mid-40s, a slight breeze and cloudy — at the Joplin Athletic Complex.

Said Webb City coach Walter Resa: "Both teams played with the heart of a champion. Neither team wanted to relinquish anything."

The Cardinals won 1-0 in their first meeting this season, Resa said, before they exchanged high-scoring results.

"Throw out games 2 and 3. I didn't expect 13 runs today," Resa said. "I was expecting more like our first meeting. But neither team could shut down the other.

"We had different people step up at different times," Resa said. "It was a total team effort."

Webb City (23-4), which finished third in Class 4 in 2011, will entertain Ozark on Wednesday in the sectional round.

Webb City, seeded second to McDonald County, pushed across the winning run in the top of the 10th inning on a leadoff double by Emily Harris, a wild pitch and Samantha Gilstrap's grounder.

Morgan Lammey's two-run single had given the Cardinals a 6-5 lead in the seventh. A single by winning pitcher Kaitlin Beason, two wild pitches, a walk to Desirea Buerge and a stolen base preceded the safety by Lammey.

Beason and Asia Bemo each had two hits for the Cardinals.