TAUNTON – The magic ride continues. The St. Mary’s softball team is playing Saturday for a state championship.The Spartans earned one of the most improbable victories they’ll ever see Wednesday night at the Jack Tripp Softball Field – a come-from-behind, nine-inning 4-3 win over Cohasset on Brittany Hanscom’s hard single up the middle that scored Gabriella Cohan – in the Division 3 state semifinals.Click here for a photo gallery.As a result, they’ll face Monty Tech Saturday at Worcester State (time to be announced) for the title.That the Spartans rallied in the top of the seventh inning to tie the game isn’t all that unusual. St. Mary’s has rallied in this tournament before.But it’s the way the Spartans rallied that people were buzzing about afterward. Merely saying that St. Mary’s played small ball isn’t enough. They played micro-ball ? nano-ball, even.If there was an opportunity to bunt, St. Mary’s bunted. And most of the time, it worked ? especially when No. 5 hitter Ariel LaRosa squeezed home the tying run.”We noticed that every we bunted, they threw the ball around, so ? well, you hate to say you want to take advantage ? but you have to take advantage,” said St. Mary’s coach Colleen Newbury.The inning started with St. Mary’s down, 3-2, and Maria Nazzaro up at bat. Nazzaro, naturally, bunted her way on and promptly stole second. Erin McAndrews was next, and Cohasset pitcher Kelly Naegelin elected to walk her – one of three free passes the junior catcher got after smoking a double and a single her first two times up.Kristen Mondello, the cleanup hitter, sacrificed the runners along and nearly beat out the bunt herself. That was enough of a surprise. But when LaRosa followed by laying down a perfect bunt, Nazzaro – who played brilliantly all afternoon both offensively and defensively – crossed the plate and the game was tied.”She’s a pretty good bunter, actually,” said Newbury. “Some of their fielders just looked indecisive on the bunts, so we kept doing it.”Cohan became the fourth hitter of the inning to bunt, and she reached when third baseman Carly Martin couldn’t make a play, with the other runners staying put.They all stayed put thereafter, as Sam Kiley flied to left (too shallow to risk sending pinch-runner Michelle Macchione) and Jenna Fraher popped to second.Meanwhile, Kiley, pitching in relief of starter Vanessa LaFauci, helped herself out immeasurably in the field. She caught two absolute shots back to the mound, and started a nifty 1-4-3 double play that got her out of the sixth and set the stage for the comeback.”Boy,” marveled Newbury, “didn’t she get some shots hit back at her!”Cohan opened the ninth with a single to centerfield and then, with one out, hustled all the way to third on Jenna Fraher’s groundout to first. Hanscom, in the No. 9 spot, then scorched one up the middle as Cohan scampered home.”She’s really hit well in this tournament,” said Newbury.”We work on our hitting all the time,” said Hanscom. “In the gym, off the tee ? an hour and a half at the batting cages (Tuesday).”If that was the end of it, it still would have been a memorable game. But Hanscom and second baseman Kristina Burri combined in the bottom of the inning for a defensive gem. With one out, Carly Salerno roped one to center that Nazzaro almost managed to stab. But the ball glanced off her glove. However, Hanscom, the right fielder, was there to back her up. She fired the ball to Burri, who then spotted Salerno trying for third. She threw to Fraher, who tagged the runner with room to spare.”I couldn’t believe she was going,” said Burri, who threw a runner out at second against Shawsheen in the last inning of the Spartans’ first-round win. “It almost seemed as if she thought she had the base.””I’m really proud of this team,” said Newbury. “They didn’t quit, even when they were behind in the last inning. To come from behind the way they did ? that’s just amazing.”St. Mary’s took a 2-0 lead in the third when Fraher walked, stole second,