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Glendale ends JV’s season on Peterson’s 1-hitter

FLINTON — Glendale sophomore pitcher Madison Peterson said after Monday’s District 6 Class 1A quarterfinal game that she’s playing for the seniors in the playoff run for the second-seeded Lady Vikings. “I’m really close to these seniors, and I don’t want them to leave,” Peterson said. On Monday, not only did she put the senior class on her back, but it might as well have been the whole Glendale student body. Peterson pitched a one-hitter and allowed just one unearned run and struck out nine, and also put together three hits at the plate in a 9-1 victory over No. 7 ...

Run-crazy ’Dogs shut out Crushers

CLAYSBURG — Claysburg-Kimmel had a hitting session on Sunday in preparation for its playoff game against Bishop McCort. The extra work paid off as the Lady Bulldogs jumped all over Lady Crusher starter Belle Toth from the start. The third-seeded Bulldogs scored in all but the fourth inning of a 10-0 mercy rule victory in the quarterfinals of the District 6 Class 1A playoffs on Monday afternoon. “I just told them before the game that we have to come out ready to play,” Claysburg-Kimmel coach Mike Barbarini said. “We practiced hard on slower pitching, and she (Toth) was in ...

Warriors, Moore limit Mustang offense

MORRISDALE — The eighth-seeded Portage softball team had top seed West Branch on the ropes several times during Monday’s District 6 Class 1A quarterfinal as they had runners on second and third with either one or no outs on three occasions and had a runner on second with just one out on another. But Lady Warrior ace Makena Moore was able to limit the damage to just one run, while stranding nine Portage base runners — eight in scoring position —in a 4-1 Lady Warrior victory. Moore was able to get out of all but one of the jams without giving up any runs by striking out 17 Lady ...

Heights suffers stinging defeat to MC

Cambria Heights’ bats went silent after manufacturing an early lead, Marion Center’s Lydia Miller hit a grand slam and drove in six RBI, and the Stingers ended the Highlanders season, 12-2, in a District 6 Class 2A first round playoff game on Monday at Marion Center Community Park. The Highlanders’ Martina White walked to lead off the game and later scored on Elle Bender’s RBI single. Bender came around to score on a bloop single by Rylee Bernecky that landed in between third base and home plate. “We always try to do that,” Cambria Heights coach Drew Thomas said about the ...

Big third inning enough to carry Mustangs

By Nate Ritchey nritchey@altoonamirror.com PORTAGE — Clinging to a one-run lead, Portage got its bats going in the third inning of a contest with Bishop Carroll. That inning proved to be the difference as the Lady Mustangs held on for a 5-2 victory over the Lady Huskies in District 6 Class 1A first-round playoff action on Thursday afternoon. “Stringing those clutch hits together made the momentum shift,” Portage coach Madison Baumgardner said. “I know that with our team, especially, hitting is contagious. So, if we can get those couple together than it’s real easy to ...

JV bunches its runs together for victory

By Andy Stine astine@altoonamirror.com ALEXANDRIA — Down 1-0 in the bottom of the fourth inning of Thursday’s District 6 Class 1A first-round softball game against 10th-seeded Williamsburg, seventh-seeded Juniata Valley was looking for a spark for its offense. They got double of what they asked for from the bats of Taryn Stewart and Kassidy Watson, who both launched home runs in the bottom of the fourth to jump-start the Lady Hornet offense. It continued the rest of the way in an 11-3 victory over Williamsburg at Juniata Valley High School. “We started a lot slower than ...