Orange Beach, Ala. – (OBA) – Just about every time Shane Alexander thinks about his softball team’s incredible run, another point of history seems to reveal itself. Like the fun fact that only one percent of high school athletes experience the thrill of a state championship. In any sport.

He has two players each who have been star players on Orange Beach’s six straight softball state championships: catcher Ava Hodo and infielder Teagan Revette, both seventh-grade starters in 2021. Hodo has caught in virtually every game for Orange Beach since and even called pitches for his last four years. Teagan Revette has played in virtually every game as an infielder, first as a third baseman, but the majority of the time as a second baseman.

“We still haven’t found any one player that has won six in the same (team) sport,” Alexander said. “I’ve reached out, and there’s nothing. There are kids who have possibly won six, but in different sports. You can come up with a lot of thoughts on a five-hour bus ride.”

Six times he’s made that bus ride back from Oxford to Orange Beach. Each time with a new state championship trophy, two in Class 2A and four in Class 4A.

That’s a start on the history. No Alabama softball team had won six straight state championships. Mulling over the past few years of this incredible run, Alexander perked up at the thought of a program winning a state championship in its first year of competition. And every year since.

“I can’t remember that being done before either,” he said.

This year’s team has come full circle with the 2021 hero and the 2026 hero collaborating to get the final out for title number six. Pitcher MK McMullan, MVP of the 2026 Class 4A tournament, throwing the final strike to Ava Hodo, the walk-off home run hitter from the 2021 championship.

Other improbable records include going 24-0 at the state tournament sites in Oxford and Jacksonville State, winning four games each year, and never playing a game in the loser’s bracket.

For the year, Orange Beach scored 493 runs while allowing only 53. McMullan, just a sophomore, went 28-1 and tossed all four state tournament wins, and the 46-1 Lady Makos have been ranked at number one in various national polls this season, including MaxPreps, which named Orange Beach national champions in 2024. The only loss was to undefeated South Warren of Bowling Green, Kentucky, another nationally ranked team currently 

Hodo and shortstop Katie King are headed to Arkansas to play college ball, and Revette will be playing for Mississippi State, among many scholarships earned by Lady Mako players.

Here’s how the Lady Makos brought home six straight championships.

2021: Pisgah, 3-2: Orange Beach softball lore – a six-year program with a lore already – will forever recall the ninth-inning home run by Hodo and her bold prediction to Alexander that Orange Beach would win six before she was gone, culminating this year. Pisgah took a 2-1 lead in the top of the ninth. Daigle Wilson got a one-out walk in front of Hodo’s blast. Ironically, Pisgah previously held the record for consecutive state titles with five from 2001-05 and had more state titles, 10, than any other program in Alabama. Click here for a game summary

2022: Mars Hill, 2-1: Wilson’s single pushed across the championship-winning run, but some heads-up baserunning by Falon Beebe helped set the stage. Beebe reached first, and Georgia McDonald bunted her to second. Bebee saw that third base was open and sprinted to take the extra base. Wilson followed with the single. Click here for a game summary

2023: Beat Houston Academy 5-0: Tournament MVP KG Favors pitched a one-hitter after giving up a lead-off single and got run support from two hits each by L.C. Robbins, one a home run, and Abby Oldman. Daigle Wilson got on base four times, stole two bases, and scored twice. L.C. Robbins caught a fly ball for the last out. Click here for a game summary

2024: Beat Brooks, 2-1: Tournament MVP KG Favors pitched a four-hitter, and Hodo and Revette drove in the two runs, with Revette and Katie King scoring them. MaxPreps named Orange Beach as the 2024 national champion. Revette fielded a ground ball for the final out. Click here for a game summary

2025: Beat Curry, 9-2: Curry’s Ambry Taylor, now Alabama’s third baseman, started off this championship game with a first-pitch home run to put the Makos down quickly. Orange Beach came back strong, led by tournament MVP shortstop Katie King. Taylor Poland caught a fly ball for the last out. Click here for a game summary

2026: Beat Plainview, 6-0: Orange Beach scratched out an early run and then added 5 in the fifth inning, more than enough as tournament MVP McMullan shut down Plainview. McMullan, who also when two for three with three RBIs, ended the game with a strikeout caught by Hodo. Click here for game summary