Local roundup: Lady Pioneers upend Avonworth, 4-3
Emmaline Beazell was 4 for 4 and drove in the go-ahead run with a two-out single in the top of the seventh inning to help West Greene defeat Avonworth, 4-3, in a battle of top-tier WPIAL softball teams at Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Saturday.
Winning pitcher Payton Gilbert had three hits, including a double, and allowed one run on three hits with one walk and three strikeouts.
The Class A Lady Pioneers took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on Khyler Davis’ RBI squeeze bunt following back-to-back singles by Kendra Thapr and Beazell. West Greene scored twice in the fifth on Kylee Davis’ RBI double and Madelyn Roberts’ run-scoring single to go up 3-0, but Reese Long’s three-run homer in the sixth pulled the Class 3A Lady Antelopes (4-1) even at 3-3.
Avonworth threatened with a runner on third in the bottom of the seventh but the Lady Pioneers’ Sammi Zimmerman snared a line drive to end the game.
Ali Linhart took the loss in relief of starter Sydney Savatt.
Roberts had two hits for the Lady Pioneers.
Frazier 13, Charleroi 1 – Grace Vaughn homered and knocked in three runs and eight different players had at least one RBI in the Lady Commodores’ five-inning, non-section victory at Charleroi.
Zoey Zurenski smacked a pair of doubles and knocked in two runs and Grace Polkabla and Emme Travalena both doubled and singled for Frazier (1-1) which also got three hits from Malayna Burton.
Winning pitcher Addison Hiles gave up one run on two hits with three walks and six strikeouts, and singled twice. Gracen Hartman also had two hits for the Lady Commodores who got one RBI apiece from Hartman, Hiles, Travalena, Morgan Fisher, Burton and Delani Anderson.
Ariahna had the lone RBI for the Lady Cougars (2-3). Payton Huweart was the losing pitcher.
Baseball
Connellsville 3, Penn-Trafford 2 – Easton Bryner knocked in two of the visiting Falcons’ three runs in a non-section victory against the Warriors (4-2).
Jeff Dunaway was the winning pitcher for Connellsville (4-1).
United Local (Ohio) 13, West Greene 3 – The Pioneers’ Will Shipman had a double and an RBI but West Greene (0-6) fell to United Local in a non-section game at the Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Darren Knight tripled for West Greene (0-6). Hayden Hamilton was the losing pitcher.
College softball
Grove City 4, Waynesburg 2; Grove City 6, Waynesburg 2 – Grove City swept a PAC doubleheader against the visiting Yellow Jackets.
Waynesburg (2-4, 16-7) took a 2-0 lead in the first game on Alyssa Rager’s two-run homer in the fourth inning but Grove City (6-0, 15-4) scored the final four runs of the game. Rager had two of the Yellow Jackets’ four hits.
Waynesburg again took a 2-0 lead in the second game with a pair of unearned runs in the first inning with RBIs from Rager and Camdyn Kowalczyk but had only two hits the rest of the way as Grove City again roared back to win.
College baseball
Washington & Jefferson 6, Waynesburg 2; Washington & Jefferson10, Waynesburg 1 – The Presidents swept a PAC doubleheader over the host Yellow Jackets.
Waynesburg (1-5, 5-18) led 1-0 in the first game after two innings before the Presidents (6-0, 14-4) roared back to win. Aidan Williams and Alec Engelmore each had a single and an RBI for the Yellow Jackets. Ethan Erhard took the loss. West Greene graduate Dalton Lucy pitched four innings of relief, allowing two runs on six hits with one walk and six strikeouts.
Waynesburg again took a 1-0 lead when Trent Giraffa doubled and scored in the second inning. The Yellow Jackets held that lead until the fifth when W&J tied it and then went ahead with a three-run homer in the sixth. The Presidents pull away from there.
Vincent Turner had two of Waynesburg’s five hits, including a double.
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Softball
West Greene 5, Columbiana (Ohio) 2 – Payton Gilbert had a double, single and an RBI and was the winning pitcher in the Lady Pioneers’ non-section victory over Columbiana at the Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Gilbert allowed one earned run on two hits with two walks and six strikeouts
Emmaline Beasell drove in two runs, Kendra Tharp doubled and Kylee Davis had two hits for West Greene (3-0).
Ella Dota doubled for Columbiana.
Latrobe 10, Mount Pleasant 0 – Mya McHugh was 3 for 3 with a double and was the winning pitcher in the Lady Wildcats’ (3-2) five-inning, non-section win over the Lady Vikings (2-2).
Baseball
Revere (Ohio) 11, West Greene 2 – Logan Shields singled and scored a run in West Greene’s non-section loss to Revere at the Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Darren Knight took the loss.
Women’s track and field
CMU Invitational – Duquesne sophomore Mia Pierce won the discus with a throw of 155 feet, 9 inches at the CMU Invitational.
The Laurel Highlands graduate, who also finished first in the event in last week’s 49er Classic in Charlotte. N.C., recorded the third-longest throw in Duquesne history.