LYNN – Lynn Classical won the rubber game against crosstown rival English Sunday, defeating the Bulldogs, 3-2, in the final of the John G. Holland Memorial Softball Tournament at Breed Middle School.Click here for a photo gallery.The two teams split the regular-season series and won the right to face each other for a third time Saturday night when English outlasted Swampscott, 2-0, in a nine-inning preliminary game and Classical followed with a 3-1 win over St. Mary’s.Jenny Garrity pitched a complete game in the win over St. Mary’s Saturday and took over in relief to save the game for Sunday’s starter, Katie Cuozzo. She pitched 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief and snuffed out a potential game-tying English rally in the fifth inning. For her efforts, she received the Ginny Dandreo award as the tournament’s outstanding pitcher.However, special mention should go to English’s Tiffany Drown, who completed both games of the tournament without allowing an earned run.All five runs in Sunday’s final were unearned.St. Mary’s defeated Swampscott, 8-3, in the consolation game.Scholarship winners were Jen Mageary of English, Marissa Gambale of Swampscott, Kristen Mondello of St. Mary’s and Jaime Behen of Classical.In the final, English got on the board courtesy of a pair of Classical errors and without benefit of a hit. Valerie Fiaccaprilli reached on an overthrow, making it to second on the play. She stole third and came home on another overthrow.Classical scored three runs in the third – again, all of them unearned. With one out, Rachel Carroll and Cuozzo hit singles. After Katie Fitzgerald walked, both Fallon Gaudet and Hannah Byrne got on base via errors, allowing all three runners to score. Drown bore down, however, and got the final two hitters to end the inning.English had a golden chance to climb back into the game – and perhaps tie it – in the fifth when Taylor Newhall hit a one-out triple and Fiaccaprilli was hit by a pitch.However, Garrity came on to pitch and got the dangerous Mageary to pop to short for the second out. In the process of walking Kara Crowley intentionally, she threw one a little too wide and catcher Chelsey Bartlett couldn’t reach it, and it careened all the way to the backstop, allowing Newhall to score the second run.However, Garrity got Lauren Walsh to ground to second to end the inning.Even though Larissa Paula singled to start the seventh, Garrity got the next three English hitters on groundouts to ice the game.”I knew English was going to come to play,” said Classical coach Chris Warren. “They’re a good team, and I knew it was going to be a war.””Once again, we were ‘this’ close,” said English coach Alisa Fila. “It’s been that way with us all year. We’re right there ? but just not enough.”In the consolation game, the Spartans, 12-8, got five runs in the third and three more in the fourth. Kristina Burri, who knocked in four runs during the game, got two RBI in the third with a single. Erin McAndrews hit a bases-loaded double to score the other three in the third. Burri had two RBI in the fifth with a double. The other St. Mary’s run scored on an error.Sophomore Vanessa LaFauci went all the way on the mound for the win.”I’m glad we hit the ball, because we didn’t Saturday night,” said St. Mary’s coach Colleen Newbury.St. Mary’s awaits today’s MIAA tournament pairings.The Big Blue scored a run on a wild pitch in the fifth and scored two more in the sixth on an error and a fielder’s-choice groundout. Gambale had two hits for Swampscott.”I’m glad we didn’t stop playing when the score got to be 8-0,” Swampscott coach Annamaria Addonizio. “We hit the ball, which was good.”Saturday night, Crowley hit a triple that scored Mageary, who had singled, with one run; and then scored the other on Walsh’s sacrifice fly as the Bulldogs earned their trip to the final.The game was a scintillating nine-inning pitcher’s duel between Drown and Swampscott’s Cortney Fletcher.In the other game, Makenzie Coppinger tripled and sco