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Artesia’s Rylee Crandall dominated Gallup in Saturday’s Class 4A softball final. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal) (Click here for the Class 4A bracket.) Even a washed-away 2020 season could not stop the momentum of Artesia’s softball program. The Bulldogs captured their third straight 4A softball state title blanking Gallup 4-0 at the University of New Mexico Softball Field on Saturday afternoon. Junior pitcher RyLee Crandall had a dominant one-hit shutout victory, striking out 15 and walking just one. Crandall came one out from pitching a no-hitter, but Gallup’s Taylor Morgan broke it up with an infield single. “Our team just wanted to do as much as we could do to get back here again,” Crandall said of the state finals win. “It would’ve been nice (to have the no-hitter), but my team had my back, and I’m super-proud of them.” ....