Junior High Softball Team Defeats Shenango; Record Improves To 9-2

The Lady Wolverines put together a solid effort and defeated Shenango on Tuesday afternoon at Stiefel Park by a score of 10-0.  The game was shortened to 5 innings due to the mercy rule.

The Wolverines got on the board starting in the second inning.  Ellie Kalantzis reached base on a two-out walk and stole second.  She scored on a rbi single by Julia Nardone.  After Nardone reached second on a wild pitch, Keira Rozanski knocked her in with a single into center field.  Rozanski would score on a double by Aliya Garroway.

Ellwood City added four more runs to the cause in the third inning.  Maddie Hicks led the inning off with a walk and stole second.  She moved to third on an infield single by Kaylani Leos.  Both Hicks and Leos would score on a double into center field by Trinity Arlet.  Nardone brought Arlet in with another single.  Nardone moved to third on a single by Rozanski and Nardone scored the inning’s final run on a double to the wall in left field by Garroway.

The Lady Wolverines effectively put the game away in the fourth inning with three more runs.  Liz Mihalko reached first with a one-out walk and moved to second on a wild pitch.  Mihalko would reach third on an infield single by Cassidy Crepp and would score on a wild pitch.  Crepp scored on a single up the middle by Paige Wearing.  Back to back hit batsmen to Joy Hudspath and Bree Falesnik loaded the bases and Crepp would score the game’s final run on a walk to Aaliyah Kinney.  Nardone struck out the side in the fifth and that was all she wrote.

Nardone got the W in the circle as she tossed a one-hitter over 4 innings.  She struck out six and walked two.  Aliya Garroway added an inning of no-hit pitching with 2 punch outs and no walks.

The defense was fantastic once again as they played error-free ball for the second consecutive game.  Nardone and second baseman Rozanski each threw out two baserunners at first base.  Second baseman Falesnik made a nice play ranging far to her left to retire a runner at first.  Third baseman Chloe Duncan made the play of the game as she made a fine catch on a grounder headed for the hole and fired a strike to first for the out.  Catcher Hicks gunned down the only base runner that attempted to steal.  First baseman Wearing also fielded a grounder for an out.

The young ladies will look for win number 10 on Thursday as they head to Neshannock to face the Lancers.  First pitch is set for 6pm.