Prep softball: Barbs lose leads in seventh, ninth in loss to Hubs

We tried to not hit balls at her because she’s such an outstanding fielder. “Everybody’s got a great No. 1 pitcher on the mound that can go out and beat anybody, any day”.

Nicolette Trapani pitched a complete game, allowing two runs with four strikeouts on 93 pitches.

Against Audubon in the top of the ninth inning, Grace Osborn scored on a wild pitch, Haven Layne singled home Madison Darnell and Camryn Ratliff’s sacrifice fly scored a sliding Ali Hartman for the eventual game-winning run.

“They’re young”, Ferington said of a roster that includes only one senior. “We have to take it one game at a time”.

“My way, or you’re going to have a seat” on the bench, he said.

“We always had someone special from each school throw out the first pitch”, Clouse said.

The Cougars were coming off a 4-3, eight-inning loss to Newcastle Saturday at the Little Axe Tournament.

TAMA – After the singles matches in the South Tama County girls tennis team’s season opener against Mount Vernon, the Trojans were down 2-4 to Mount Vernon with only three doubles matches remaining.

“He is the heart and soul of our team”, Szparka said. “That’s when we chose to come together”.

Carbon would put up nine runs in the third inning with the final four runs coming from a walk-off grand slam by Cripps. “A big hit like that will help her”. Kara Neidigh (2-for-3, three RBIs, double), Haiden Brookens (2-for-2, two runs scored), MacKenzie Stake (2-for-2, two RBIs, triple), Molly Keefer (2-for-2, two RBIs, double) and Rebecca Fisher (1-for-2, RBI triple) led the way for Chambersburg. Going 2-for-4 each were junior Haley Stoneman, junior Cory Krajewski, freshman Emma McCauley and Ryan, who led Battlefield with five RBIs. If not, he said, the search for a successful candidate could take somewhere between two weeks and possibly a month.

Sophomore Alicia Horn tossed a no-hitter and went 2-for-2 with two RBIs in Northern Lehigh’s 11-0 win over Catasauqua. “We’ll have to have other people step up and fill some spots for us”. Offensively, we worked hard this past week on being more aggressive at the plate and it really paid off with an increase in hits, but timely hitting is still a problem for us. “We will definitely be working on offense and just grinding it out everyday”.

Another four-year starter, outfielder Michael Conflitti has a good bat and fine speed in the middle of the lineup.

After Wolcott went on top 2-1 in the third, and with runners on the corners, Turiano saved at least one run with a running catch of a sinking liner in left field.

During her freshman season with the Cardinals, Funke started twice and played in 33 games overall.