LA JOLLA ---- In baseball slang, a yacker is a hard-breaking curveball from the pitcher. At Torrey Pines High, a yacker is the center fielder.

And because of Julia Yacker's two-out single in the bottom of the 10th inning, the top-seeded Falcons made history with a 1-0 win over Carlsbad in the CIF San Diego Section Division I softball final Tuesday night at UC San Diego.

Yacker drove in freshman catcher Shelby Evans, whose one-out single started the final rally.

What made the first softball title in school history even more special was that it came three days after a fire blew out a generator at UCSD on Saturday, forcing the title game to be postponed for 72 hours.

In the end, it didn't matter how long the wait was. Except to Yacker, a junior who missed a squeeze bunt in the section final two years ago.

"Her dad has been telling me for two years Julia would redeem herself,' said Torrey Pines coach Jon Moore, whose team finished with a 31-6 record. "I've waited 16 years for this moment, so waiting three more days was no big deal.

"This has been a magical year. We set a school record for wins, the seniors won 104 games on varsity, I got my 300th coaching win, we won three league titles in four years and now we have a CIF title.'

For much of the game, it looked as if Carlsbad (19-11) would be crowned champion.

The Lancers had golden scoring opportunities in the third, fourth, seventh and ninth innings. Each time, Falcons starter Rachel Nasland (17-2) halted the threats.

Nasland allowed eight hits and walked one, but struck out 15.

"We hung in there, hung in there, hung in there and hung in there,' Moore said. "Rachel gutted it out all night.

"That's why she's the best pitcher in the county.'

Yacker's game-winning single was only the fifth in the game against Carlsbad's Shelley Proctor, who fell to 10-8.

That single wiped out the memory of Yacker's missed bunt chance in 2010 in a 1-0 loss to El Camino.

"It was tough to live with because I felt like I lost CIF that year,' Yacker said. "That's why I was nervous in the 10th. I didn't want that feeling to come back again.

"When I hit it, I watched the ball, and when I saw the outfielders running toward the outfield fence I knew it was over.'

Nasland was too busy running onto the field to know where the hit landed.

"I was on the field as soon as she hit it,' Nasland said. "I was hoping it was over at that point because I was all the way out on the field.'

Carlsbad nearly broke through in the third and fourth innings.

With one out and the bases loaded in the third, Emma Schneider's liner to center field was caught by Yacker and turned into an inning-ending double play.

In the fourth, the Lancers got a pair of one-out singles, but Nasland got a strikeout and a groundout to escape that threat.

Torrey Pines threatened in the fifth inning with Kelsey Buchanan's single and an error. A strikeout, a foiled stolen base try and another strikeout ended that inning.

"Carlsbad never backed down,' Nasland said.  "We just made Torrey Pines history.'

And Yacker can forgive herself.

"I'm so excited for everyone who has waited a long time for this,' Yacker said. "It's crazy that it's never happened before, winning CIF.