PARIS — The Hampden Academy softball team has been a group of road warriors this postseason.

The fifth-seeded Broncos won their second straight road game of the Class A North playoffs, beating top-seeded Oxford Hills 10-8 in 11 innings in the semifinals. Hampden also defeated No. 4 Edward Little in Auburn in the quarterfinals on Thursday.

Saturday’s win earned the Broncos the right to return to Auburn for the regional final on Tuesday, when they will face No. 2 Lewiston at Central Maine Community College.

“Usually, on the road, it hasn’t been too good,” Hampden’s Piper Parker said. “We always do good back at our home field because we have the turf advantage. But we’ve been practicing on dirt consistently and getting ready for this game because we knew we were going to come down here and give it our all.”

Hampden Academy coach Jarrod Williams is calling these playoffs a revenge tour.

“Everybody that we’re going to play has beaten us, and we want to get them,” Williams said. “You know what I mean? And they’re all great teams.”

Lewiston beat the Broncos 6-0 in the teams’ lone regular-season meeting on May 23. Hampden has won its five games since, including victories over two teams in the Varsity Maine Top-10, Hermon (ninth) and Oxford Hills (second).

FORCING EXTRAS

Parker came through for the Broncos in a pivotal moment when she poked a two-run double into left field with two outs in the top of the seventh to tie the game at 5-5.

Oxford Hills went down in order in the bottom of the seventh, and the game went into extra innings.

Defensive plays helped the Broncos in the extra frames, including shortstop Khloe Hellum catching a hard line drive by Attie Campbell with the bases loaded to end the eighth inning.

“When that ball hit the bat, I was just thinking, I got to have it, I got to have it,” Hellum said. “Like, last game, there was one … that I dropped. I was like, well, I can’t have that happen again.”

Hampden Academy took a 6-5 lead in the 10th when Hellum scored on a passed ball.

In the bottom of the 10th, the Vikings had Emma Cooper on third base and Peyton Cleveland at second with no outs. Next up was Kyeria Morse, who tried to lay down a sacrifice bunt, but popped it high to Broncos pitcher Cat Facchini, who then threw to Parker at third base to get Cooper out for a double play.

Oxford Hills coach Cindy Goddard, who is retiring after leading the Vikings for 36 years, second-guessed her decision to attempt a safety squeeze in that situation.

“I think I would have just gone with a bunt down and see if we can score on it,” said Goddard, who led the Vikings to two state titles, five state title games and several regional final appearances. “Or maybe let her hit. But I knew that with the squeeze bunt, if they got the out at home, we had another runner at third. I didn’t anticipate the high-pitch pop-up and double-up.”

Cleveland scored later in the inning on an error to extend the game.

The Broncos broke the game open in the 11th. An error gave them a 7-6 lead, and another error brought home another run. Then Charlotte Tardiff’s two-run single extended the lead to 10-6.

Oxford Hills scored twice with two outs in the bottom of the 11th, on a sac fly and an error, in the bottom of the inning, but Facchini ended the Vikings’ rally attempt with a strikeout, her eighth of the game.

“(Hampden Academy) bunted, they hit, they did running, they took advantage of things,” Goodard said. “… We kept (up) in the game, too. So, it was a great game. Both can’t go home winners.”

In the final game of her standout high school career, Morse, a Miss Maine Softball finalist, struck out 15 batters over 11 innings in the circle.

STATISTICAL LEADERS

• Hamden Academy: Cat Facchini (winning pitcher, 8 2/3 IP, 8 K, 5 H; 2-for-6 batting, double, RBI, 2 runs), Piper Parker (2 for 4, 3 RBI)

• Oxford Hills: Kyeria Morse (11 IP, 15 K), Peyton Cleveland (RBI, 3 runs), Attie Campbell (2B)