CENTRAL NEW YORK – If all went to plan for the Jamesville-DeWitt softball team, it would return to the Section III Class A championship game and get even for falling in last June’s championship game to Auburn.

New Hartford altered those plans.

With a stunning late-game rally in Sunday’s sectional Class A semifinal at Onondaga Community College, the no. 4 seed Spartans stunned the no. 1 seed Red Rams 11-6.

Nothing that had taken place during the regular season and post-season indicated that this would happen. J-D was 18-3 going into the game, and in 17 of those wins had accumulated double-digit runs.

That included an 18-5 romp over Indian River in last Thursday’s sectional quarterfinal, a game where the Rams plated seven runs in the first inning and six runs in the third.

Emily Bulone had a home run and two singles on her way to six RBIs. Miriam Zoghby went four-for-four as she and Kate Dorazio both scored three times and drove in two runs. Kaira McMahon also had a pair of RBIs.

Now J-D faced New Hartford after rains on Saturday forced a 24-hour postponement and a relocation to the OCC turf. And the Rams promptly took a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the second and stretched the margin to 6-1 two innings later.

McMahon pitched well until the top of the sixth, when New Hartford started to hit on a regular basis, accumulating four runs to cut J-D’s margin to 6-5.

Then, in the top of the seventh, New Hartford loaded the bases before Alex Volo hit a go-ahead two-run double. Taylor Scranton’s single made it 9-6, and Raven Gonzales and Sophia Burynski both drove in runs, too.

J-D couldn’t answer in the bottom of the seventh, and it was New Hartford advancing to a place in the sectional final against Auburn, the no. 2 seed, who won the other semifinal 4-2 over Camden.

Before it knocked off the Rams, New Hartford first defeated its fellow Spartans from East Syracuse Minoa in the quarterfinal round by a score of 3-0.

Unlike the semifinal, this game featured strong pitching from New Hartford’s Sienna Holmes and ESM’s Olivia Goff, who each threw two scoreless innings at the outset.

Then New Hartford got to Goff for two runs in the bottom of the third, adding a run in the sixth. Holmes held ESM to five hits, one each by Goff, Ava Burry, Natalie Quonce, Morgan Ransom and Hannah DeGonzaque. ESM’s season ended with a 13-6 record.

Christian Brothers Academy, the no. 6 seed, had won its opening-round game over Watertown, but then saw its run ended in the quarterfinals with a 9-4 defeat to Camden.

The Brothers took a 3-0 lead with a run in the first and two runs in the third, Erin Nardells and Allison Boule driving in runs as Mackenzie Witz had two hits and scored twice and Avery Bowman got three hits.

Camden negated all of this by tying it 3-3 in the third and then, with four runs in the bottom of the fourth, going in front for good. Brooke Musch led the Blue Devils with three RBIs. CBA went 10-7 this season.