Napavine’s Dakota Lyons goes yard to lead Blue Thunder 14A into next round of Cascades Nationals

Napavine’s Dakota Lyons goes yard to lead Blue Thunder 14A into next round of Cascades Nationals

OLYMPIA — Dakota Lyons had one thought as she watched the first strike of her first at-bat scurry by her. “Gosh, I wish I would’ve swung at that.” Lyons, a soon-to-be Napavine High School sophomore suiting up for Centralia-based club Blue Thunder 14A this summer, doesn’t often bite on the first pitch. But in the first game of the 14-and-under Cascades National Championship bracket round Friday at Olympia’s Yauger Park, that first pitch had damag…