Metro

GREENVILLE, N.C. — The Johnstown West Suburban softball team, featuring several players from the Mirror coverage area, won its first game in the Little League World Series on Sunday night in dramatic fashion.

West Suburban edged Guilford (Conn.), 2-1.

With the game televised on ESPN+, West Suburban went the first five innings without getting a hit off Guilford starter Maeve Eagleson.

But Johnstown starter Reagan Bills, a Cambria Heights School District student, was just as effective, giving up a single in the third inning but no runs. She finished the game with 15 strikeouts.

Guilford was able to push across a run in the top of the sixth when Michaela Mascari stole home.

Johnstown’s Mallory Bailor reached on an error to begin the bottom of the sixth and later scored on a Kendal Schilling single, Johnstown’s first hit of the game.

With two outs, Leilah Schilling-Mansour singled in Schilling to win the game.

Johnstown faces Los Angeles at 4 p.m. today.

GUILFORD (CONN.) (1): Mahon 2b 200, Eagleson p 200, Michalowski 3b 200, Reinhold c 200, Klein 1b 200, Pradith cf 200, Mascari ss 110, Winters 100, McGowen rf-lf 200, Barbarito 201, Bizzario 100, Volpe lf-rf 100. Totals — 20-1-1.

JOHNSTOWN WEST SUBURBAN (2): Gaunt 2b 200, Bills p 100, Hines c 200, Worthington 1b 100, Fees ss 200, Bailor 210, Baxter rf-lf 200, Shepherd lf 100, Schilling lf-rf 211, Schilling-Mansour cf 201, Keefe 100, Divido 3b 100. Totals — 19-2-2.

SCORE BY INNINGS

Guilford (Conn.) 000 001–1 1 1

Johnstown 000 002–2 2 2

RBI–Schilling, Schilling-Mansour. WP–Bills. LP–Eagleson. SO–Bills 15, Eagleson 6. BB–Bills 2, Eagleson 3.

Records: Guilford (Conn.) (0-1); Johnstown West Suburban (1-0).

TBT final

WICHITA, Kansas — Former University of Pittsburgh basketball player Nike Sibande, the 2023 ACC Sixth Man of the Year, helped lead his team, the Aftershocks, to the championship of The Basketball Tournament, on Sunday night.

The Aftershocks, a team of mostly Wichita State alumni, earned an 82-67 win over defending champion Eberlein Drive — which had knocked out Hollidaysburg-based Sideline Cancer earlier in the quarterfinal round of TBT — in Sunday’s final.

Sibande came off the bench to score 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting and grabbed six rebounds for the Aftershocks, who were led by tournament MVP Marcus Keense, who finished with 22 points.

Sibande averaged 13.5 points per game in helping the Aftershocks to a 6-0 record and the $1 million team prize.