Captains Jordan McDermott and Taylor Richards celebrate after the last out of the banner-clinching game.

“We’re really happy about it,” said co-captain Jordan McDermott, who caught a line drive at first base to end the game. “It was a big year because we lost a lot of key players after last year.”

“It feels great for the girls,” said head coach Mike Dunphy. “The last two we’ve had to share, to be able to win it by ourselves is a big accomplishment.”

The Vikings had to share the Patriot League banner with the Hanover Indians before leaving the league and, last year, were co-champions of the South Shore League with the Abington Green Wave with 13-1 league records for both teams. This season, the Vikings swept the season series against both the Indians and Green Wave and currently boast a 12-0 league record, which no other South Shore League team can match.

“It’s definitely better,” said co-captain and leadoff hitter Laikyn Nadolny on the team having a banner to themselves. “I’m just glad it ours this year.”

Kyla Palaschak (11) greets Nicole Eisenmann at the plate after Eisenmann's three-run homer in the fifth inning.

Two Mashpee errors and another wild pitch helped the Vikings break the game open with a three-run fourth inning and, in the fifth, Nicole Eisenmann made it 9-0 with an opposite-field three-run homer.

“She knows, when they go to the outside corner, she’ll use an inside-out swing,” Dunphy said of Eisenmann, who is batting .583 for the season with 30 RBI in 15 games. “She has good power to all fields and she’s one of the best hitters around.”

On the mound, Richards shut down the Falcons offensively in the complete game shut out. Richards had the Falcons off balance all game and did not allow many balls out of the infield.

“That was one of the most amazing games she’s ever had,” Nadolny said of her fellow captain’s performance on the mound.

“Taylor was right on her game,” Dunphy said. “For a senior who’s been on the team for four years, it’s great accomplishment for her to shutout a team for the title.”

Richards went all seven innings for her second straight shutout for East Bridgewater.

“I don’t really look at how I pitched,” she said. “We just keep looking at the next goal.”

With two more league games to go before finishing off the season against non-league neighbors Whitman-Hanson, Dunphy said the next goal for the team is to stay perfect.

“Our next goal is to go undefeated in the league,” he said. “We have to go out and beat Carver on Tuesday and Mashpee on Wednesday.”

After that, the goal for the team is to make it into the South Sectional semifinals in Taunton. Last year, the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals by the eventual champions Coyle-Cassidy, but McDermott said this year’s club has the potential to go further.

“I think we could do it,” she said, “There’s obviously going to be tough competition, but we’ve come so far, that I don’t want it to end now. None of us do.”