WEST HAVEN — It took Thomaston two overtimes to win a Class S title in girls basketball this spring.

So with seven basketball players on the softball team, it was no surprise that it took the Golden Bears extra innings to win the Class S softball title Saturday afternoon at Biondi Field at West Haven High.

And the way they did it was impressive — Thomaston rallied from a second-inning, six-run deficit to beat Old Saybrook 7-6 in eight innings.

Erin O'Neill's single to center drove in Gabby Hurlbert in the bottom of the eighth inning for the game-winning run. It was Thomaston's first softball title in its first trip to the finals since 2005.

"This one was in overtime, basketball was in overtime," said Hurlbert, one of the basketball players. "Crazy. We make it all hard. But it's been fun.

"Every game we've been doing this, coming back in the end."

No. 2 Thomaston (20-2) rallied in just about every tournament game. The Bears beat St. Paul 2-1 in 10 innings in the second round, Coventry 2-1 in nine innings in the semifinals.

But they had never been down by six runs. Eighth-seeded Old Saybrook hit Thomaston pitcher Morgan Sanson early. Paige Trabucchi opened the game with a triple and the Rams (20-8) took a 3-0 lead after one inning and a 6-0 lead after two.

"Unfortunately, you would think six runs is enough," Old Saybrook coach Laura Westner said. "But I guess we didn't get the job done today. It's very tough to lose a 6-0 lead."

Thomaston didn't panic. And Old Saybrook's offense cooled off.

"It was early on, so there was a lot of game left," said Thomaston co-head coach Kelly Finlay. "We usually turn it on later. We told them to keep fighting, working hard. And it worked again. Couple hits, couple bunts, moving them around. We built a lot of momentum."

Jensyn Cleveland tripled in the fifth but was picked off at third. Thomaston didn't agree with the call and got fired up. Danielle Ginest scored on an error and Hurlbert singled and scored.

The momentum was just starting to roll and, in the next inning, Thomaston batted around. Sanson, Nicole Schaefer and Nina Bacone opened with singles to load the bases. And then Thomaston started scoring. Every time that Old Saybrook tried to force an out at home, either there was an error or the Thomaston runner beat the throw. The Bears scored four times and it was 6-6.

"Hits, errors, we couldn't make outs when we needed to," Westner said. "We had chances to make the outs at the plate. Those couple of runs killed us because they ended up tying the game.

"It's not really our M.O. to lose on errors like that. We just couldn't get an out. They rallied and they didn't have an out forever. Not even bad throws, just not dead-on. They were close at the plate. It's just disappointing because we came so far."

Fitch, Seymour Win

Caroline Taber pitched a five-hitter and Taylor Wolfgang had a two-run single as top-seeded Fitch-Groton defeated No. 19 Sacred Heart Academy 3-1 to win the Class L title in Meriden. ... Raeanne Geffert pitched a two-hitter to lead No. 1 Seymour past No. 7 East Haven 2-0 in the Class M championship game in West Haven. Makayla O'Hara had an RBI single in the first — Seymour's only hit of the day.