STANDISH – South Portland carried a 16-game winning streak into Saturday’s Class A state championship, but the Cony Rams did them one better. Well, four better.

Cony ace Sonja Morse allowed just two base runners as the Rams completed a perfect 20-0 season to capture the state crown. The Red Riots ended the season 17-3.

South Portland didn’t collect their first hit off until a two-out single by Danica Gleason in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Both times the Red Riots found themselves with a runner on base they were promptly picked off, including Gleason, who slipped trying to get back to the bag in the seventh while taking her secondary lead and was picked off by Cony catcher Nicole Rugan to end the game.

The Red Riots’ only other base runner came in the fifth after Morse walked Sam DiBiase.

“It just wasn’t our day,” said Gleason.

Morse was virtually untouchable as she struck out 10 to best South Portland’s hard-throwing lefty, Erin Bogdanovich.

“She was great, lights out,” said South Portland coach Ralph Aceto. “She was very tough. She kept us off balance.”

“My hats off to them. They beat us. Fair and square.”

On any other day, Bogdanovich’s three-hit, 13-strikeout performance would have been enough to secure a win for her team, but Morse’s outing stole the show.

Bogdanovich cruised through much of the game but hit a bump in the road during the fourth inning, when she allowed Morse to reach with a leadoff walk.

After she was sacrificed to second and advanced to third on a wild pitch, Morse scored the eventual game-winning run on bloop single to right field by Cecelia Fuller. Olivia Deeves, who had reached base on a walk, also came around to score after the throw got by DiBiase to the backstop.

Morse did the rest for Cony, as she secured their first title since 1983.