Mike Vukovcan HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP– It Senior Day as the Hopewell HS Softball team hosted Quaker Valley in a section game.
As we’ve written a number of times, this is an extremely young Vikings team as evidenced by the fact that there’s only 1 senior on this 2026.
Hopewell softball and youth baseball is sponsored by Lisa McCoy, your neighborhood State Farm agent.
A&S Federal Credit Union are proud sponsors of Hopewell Boys and Girls High School, Junior High and Youth Sports.
Allison Ramaley is Hopewell’s lone senior and she led by example this afternoon as Hopewell came away with a 10-4 victory over QV. With the win, the Vikings improve to 3-4 in the section.
Ramaley pitched a complete game, going 7 innings, allowing 4 runs (only earned runs), walking 0 batters and striking out 5.
This was an extremely tight game, in fact, the game was tied 1-1 heading to the bottom of the 5th inning. In the 5th and 6th innings, Hopewell put up 9 runs to put this game out of reach.
In that 5th inning, Hopewell took the lead on an RBI fielder’s choice by Gianna Rossi. Then with 2 outs, Izzy Mutkus singled to drive in Rossi, which was followed by a bases loaded walk by Teagan Scully. Next up, Marina Pinchotti singled in Dakota Roche and the final run of the five-run inning scored on a QV error. Hopewell led 6-1 after 5 innings.
QV scored 3 runs in the top of the 6th to cut Hopewell’s lead to 6-4 but the Vikings responded with a four-run bottom of the 6th.
Rossi smacked a 2-run RBI double to bring in Abigail Babinsack and Lillian Otto. Following a single by Claire Sarkis, Dakota Roche increased the Hopewell lead to 9-4 with an RBI single, which scored Rossi. The final run came across the plate on a fielder’s choice grounder by Scully.
Taking a look at the Hopewell box score, freshman Lillian Otto led the way with 3 hits and a walk. Dakota Roche and Babinsack picked up 2 hits and 1 RBI apiece. Pinchotti, Ramaley, Rossi, Sarkis, Mutkus and Scully each had a hit.
These two teams will meet up again on Thursday, but before then, Hopewell will travel to West Allegheny on Wednesday for a non-section game.
