Sophia Zepeda pitches like the ace Mundelein needs her to be. ‘I saw my potential.’ Now she’s reaching it.

Sophia Zepeda pitches like the ace Mundelein needs her to be. ‘I saw my potential.’ Now she’s reaching it.

Mundelein senior pitcher Sophia Zepeda’s run of bad luck appears to be behind her. Zepeda, who pitched sparingly behind then-sophomore Shae Johnson during the Mustangs’ run to fourth place in Class 4A last year, was anointed the ace of the staff after an injury sidelined Johnson for this entire season But Zepeda, a College of Lake County commit, then suffered back-to-back injuries that forced her to sit out some games. “It was frustrating becaus…