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The South Williamsport softball team opened its season strong in Myrtle Beach, scoring 14 runs over the final three innings and pounding Elizabethtown, Tennessee, 14-1, in six innings. Elizabethtown was a regional champion in Tennessee a year ago and had already played five games. Alizabeth Schuler threw a seven-hitter, struck out four and threw 58 of 75 pitches for strikes in her high school debut while also going 2 for 4 with a triple.
Olivia Beck, Claire Alexander and Kendall Cardone all had two hits and two RBIs. Cardone tripled and Beck and Alexander each had doubles. Aleigha Rieppel and Abby Lorson also had hits as South scored six runs in the fourth, erasing a 1-0 deficit. The Mounties play defending Ohio State champion Grove City tomorrow morning.
• Williamsport's track and field team opened the season in Chambersburg this past weekend at the Tim Cook Memorial Invitational. The Millionaires took advantage of the impressive competition presented by 25 other teams from southern Pennsylvania. On the girls side, Williamsport had six individual top-8 finishes, and eight individual top-8 finishes on the boys side.
In girls competition, Luseane Ma'afu took second in the shot put and Tanjiyah Martin took fifth. Ma'afu also was a fifth-place finisher in the discus, and Erica Haag ended with fifth in the javelin. Countess Lingard finished seventh in the 200 and Anna Hartstead was an eighth-place finisher in the 800. The Williamsport 400 relay team took third with the team of Keyana Springman, Adrianna Clemens, Lingard and Prynn Coup. The team of Clemens, Emily Hale, Ellie Fisher and Anyae Grissom took fifth in the 1,600 relay, and Hale, Harstead, Kanina Lattie and Fisher were fifth in the 3,200 relay.
Williamsport's Garrett Laver took fourth in the discus and fifth in the javelin on the boys side. Jamaire Harden was also a fifth-place finisher, doing so in the 110 hurdles. Cameron Sims took third in the 100, and Jimmy Pombor took eighth. Patrick Nardi was a sixth-place finisher in the 3,200 and Charles Crews III took seventh in the shot put. Williamsport's three relay teams also all reached the podium.
Angelo Casas, DJ Greene, Pombor and Sims took second in the 400 relay. Greene, Aiden Everett, Alonzo Rice and Casas were sixth in the 1,600 relay, and Nardi, Holden Furey, Owen Trump and Ethan Holcomb took fourth in the 3,200 relay.
• Williamsport defeated Jersey Shore, 5-0, in boys tennis. Kyle Shuler earned a 6-3, 6-3 win against Jackson Stemler at No. 1 singles. Shreshth Singh and Abheet Sarker earned wins at Nos. 2 and 3 singles, respectively with scores of 6-1, 6-0 each.
• Penn College swept Gallaudet in college baseball, 8-5 and 16-0. In the second game, Gallaudet committed nine errors and were limited to just two singles.
Hughesville graduate Chance Webb threw 4 1/3 innings of relief and didn’t allow a single hit or earned run while striking out five in the first game. He earned the win to improve to 1-1.
In game two, Shane Price went 4 for 5 with a double and scored three runs. Jacob Carles had two hits apiece in both games.
• After an athletic career in which he worked until he was able to earn a spot as a starter on a regionally-ranked men's soccer team, senior Luke Jordan has earned one of the 42 prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships handed out to fall athletes.
Jordan is Lycoming's fifth NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner, the second-most amongst Middle Atlantic Conference schools, behind only DeSales' six.
"Luke is, first and foremost, a tremendous person – intelligent, caring and an incredible representation of what we want a student-athlete to be at Lycoming," Director of Athletics Mike Clark '93 said. "Justin, Sam, Brandon and Nick are also wonderful people, as are all the Warriors that we have nominated for the postgraduate scholarship. To see the success that we have had in garnering recipients is more than a little humbling, and it speaks to both what a great place Lycoming is and what great people we have attracted to this College. I am also incredibly grateful for the leadership that Associate Director of Athletics Joe Guistina, Dr. Sue Beidler, who retired as our faculty athletics representative in 2020, and Dr. John Whelan, our current FAR, have provided our student-athletes as they have completed their nominations."
• Bucknell senior Abby Neff earned Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week honors on Monday following a stellar performance in a 16-9 league win over Lafayette.
Neff recorded a game-high five caused turnovers and picked up three ground balls against the Leopards, and she was part of a defense that dominated early and late in the game. The Bison conceded only four goals in the first half while racing out to a 13-4 halftime lead. After Lafayette closed the gap to four in the third quarter, Bucknell's defense got back in gear and pitched a shutout in the fourth period, allowing the Bison to pull away once again.
A four-year starting defender for the Bison, Neff is in the midst of a strong senior campaign. She currently ranks second in the Patriot League in ground balls per game (2.56) and third in caused turnovers per game (1.56).
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL
South Williamsport 11,
Elizabethtown, Tenn., 1
(SIX INNINGS)
Elizabethtown 001 000 -- 1 7 2
South 000 632 -- 11 14 1
Pritchard and O’Quinn. Alizabeth Schuler and Olivia Beck. W: Schuler, (1-0). L: Pritchard.
Top Elizabethtown hitters: Ingram 3-3; Jensen 2-3, 2B, RBI. Top South hitters: Claire Alexander 2-4, 2B, 2 RBIs; Kendall Cardone 2-3, 3B, 2 RBIs; Beck 2-2, 2B, 2 RBIs; Schuler 2-4, 3B; Aleigha Rieppel 1-4, RBI; Abby Lorson 1-2, RBI; Sage Lorson 1-3; Lily Reidy 1-3; McKenzie Mitstifier 1-1; Sophia Dibble 1-1.
Records: South (1-0), Elizabethtown (4-2).
BOYS TENNIS
Williamsport 5, Jersey Shore 0
SINGLES
1. Kyle Shuler (W) def. Jackson Stemler, 6-3, 6-3; 2. Shreshth Singh (W) def. Eli Bower, 6-1, 6-0; 3. Abheet Sarker (W) def. Connor Cornelius, 6-1, 6-0.
DOUBLES
1. Evan Beiter/Ben Manetta (W) def. Brandon Shrodo/Brennan Smith, 6-3, 6-0; 2. Owen Kaar/Sma Radulski (W) def. Matt Fravel/Aaron Baker, 6-0, 6-0.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Penn College 8, Gallaudet 5
(GAME ONE)
PCT 000 030 5 — 8 9 1
Gallaudet 004 001 0 — 5 4 5
Zac Weaver, Chance Webb (3) and Nathan Gustkey. Johnathan Guerrero, Darren Droslbaugh (7) and Salvador Diaz. W: Webb (1-1). L: Guerrero (2-2).
Top Penn College hitters: Jacob Carles 2-3, RBI, run; Brian Robison 2-4, 2B, 2 RBIs, run.
Penn College 16, Gallaudet 0
(GAME TWO)
PCT 112 035 211 — 16 13 1
Gallaudet 000 000 000 — 0 2 9
Ben Bretzman, Samuel Zeigl (7) and Matt Bailor. Shea Sliva-Wynne, Josh Dugan (5), Mitchell Dolinar (6), Robert Quigley (7) and Salvador Diaz. W: Bretzman (1-2). L: Sliva-Wynne (1-2). S: Zeigl (1).
Top Penn College hitters: Jacob Carles 2-5, RBI, 3 runs; Shane Price 4-5, 2B, 3 runs; Jake Wagner, 2B.