The evening ended with a joyous celebration, a coach getting a water cooler shower, and plenty of smiles over achieving a feat that hadn’t been done in quite a while.

It just involved the team no one expected.

Camden McGloster hit a go-ahead RBI single during a four-run rally in the bottom of the sixth inning, and Vicksburg High stunned Warren Central 7-4 on Tuesday for one of the biggest upsets of the season in Mississippi high school softball.

It was Vicksburg’s first win over its crosstown rival since 2012. The 13-game losing streak included an 18-0 blowout two weeks ago.

“It’s nice to finally win,” Vicksburg senior first baseman Avery Van Norman said. “The whole time I’ve been playing for Vicksburg — I’ve been playing since seventh grade — we never beat Warren Central in fast-pitch. My seventh-grade year we beat them in slow-pitch. As a team we really needed this win. I hope it’s good for us and our momentum will carry into the playoffs.”

Warren Central (11-12, 6-2 MHSAA Region 2-6A) only needed to win to clinch the region championship. Instead, it will settle for a No. 2 seed in the Class 6A playoffs and a week of regrouping before the postseason begins on April 24.

Warren Central will face Saltillo in the first round, and Vicksburg will play Grenada.

“You’ve got to shake off all the noise and everything that you’re going to hear,” Warren Central coach Brian Ellis said. “It’s disappointing because you lose an opportunity to win the district. You hate to see it happen. But nobody really counted us in to be in a position to win a district championship anyway, so I’m proud of them. Now we have to bounce back from it and get ourselves ready to go again.”

Vicksburg (8-14, 5-3) was locked in as the No. 3 seed from Region 2-6A regardless of what happpened Tuesday, but it never seemed like a team with nothing to play for besides pride.

Pitcher Lili Kistler held Warren Central, a team that had scored in double figures in each of its last three games, without a run through the first three innings.

The Missy Gators broke through for three runs in the bottom of the third, with Trinity McGloster scoring on a passed ball and Zion Harvey hitting a two-run double.

“They’ve got some good players. I knew coming in — both games — if you hit the ball right at somebody else and give them a chance to stay in the game then these are the types of things that happen,” Ellis said. “We hit some balls really hard tonight, but we hit them right at them and they made the plays. In this game you always have the possibility to win or lose a game and it’s a matter of where the ball falls.”

Warren Central scored a run in the top of the fourth, but did not really answer back until the sixth inning. After loading the bases with one out, Mary Clell Allred and Mari Kynlea Ferguson hit back-to-back singles to plate three runs and give the Lady Vikes a 4-3 lead.

Vicksburg didn’t wilt under the sudden adversity. Harmony Harris and Kistler started the bottom of the sixth with singles and then Makynzie Dunmore chopped another base hit over the head of WC third baseman Sydney Hern to bring in the tying run.

Camden McGloster followed with a single up the middle to score the go-ahead run, and the Missy Gators tacked on two more on a ground out and an error.

“I think we did really good staying in the game. Usually we start pretty good but it’s hard for us to continue staying in the game. Our energy was up, everything was up. We didn’t get in our heads. If we made an error we cleaned it up the next play. That was really good,” Van Norman said.

Warren Central mounted one last comeback in the seventh inning. It put two batters on base with no one out before Kistler retired the next two. Allred then hit a ground ball to shortstop. Trinity McGloster fielded it and threw to third for the final out on a play close enough to spark a discussion among the umpires.

After conferring, they confirmed the call and the Missy Gators started their celebration that included the water cooler shower for Knox, a team picture and plenty of smiles and hugs.

“I feel so ecstatic,” Trinity McGloster said. “This is my senior year and we haven’t beat Warren Central since my seventh-grade year. To say it’s my last time ever playing Warren Central and to get a win, this is awesome. I’m very proud of my team.”