GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The D.C. Pickleball Team survived a thrilling battle against the St. Louis Shock with a DreamBreaker victory to make the championship match of the MLP Mid-Season Tournament.

The teams had squared off twice before today’s encounter, with D.C. winning in Atlanta in a DreamBreaker and St. Louis winning last month in the nation’s capital 3-1.

The third installment on Saturday certainly didn’t disappoint.

D.C. came out firing, and the men’s doubles pairing of James Ignatowich and Dekel Bar overpowered the Shock’s teenage duo of Hayden Patriquin and Gabriel Tardio 25-18.

Anna Bright and Kate Fahey then took the women’s doubles point for St. Louis with a 25-23 win over Rachel Rohrabacher and Vivian Glozman.

Mixed doubles followed that same sequence, with Glozman and Bar winning the first for D.C. before Bright and Patriquin took the second to bring on the deciding contest.

D.C. took the DreamBreaker 21-17 when the teams faced each other at the first event of the year in Atlanta, and it seemed like a different result was likely when St. Louis jumped out to an early lead sparked by a 4-0 rotation from Bright against Rohrabacher.

But D.C. never let the lead grow too big and slowly worked its way back into the match after teams switched sides at 11.

Ignatowich came up especially big in the DreamBreaker and hit some highlight-reel type shots against Gabriel Tardio.

Eventually, the teams found themselves tied at 20-20 with Bright and Rohrabacher coming back onto the court.

Rohrabacher didn't let her winless rotation earlier in the DreamBreaker impact her play when it mattered most, and she scored two consecutive points against her PPA women’s doubles partner to send D.C. to the finals.

The former University of South Carolina tennis player was motivated to redeem herself after the slow start.

“I was really upset with myself for going 0-4 in the first round, so I just told myself that there was nothing to lose and tried to make up for letting my team down,” she shared. “I’m glad I could pull it out.”

D.C. now moves on to the finals, where a clash against the New Jersey 5s awaits.