Mike Vukovcan The Hopewell JV softball team took on the Beaver Falls Tigers and came away with a 17-0 win (5 innings, Mercy Rule).
The Lady Vikings scored 10 runs in the 1st innings, 3 more in the 3rd inning and 4 runs in the 5th. This was a game where everyone on the Hopewell roster contributed.
Hopewell softball and youth baseball is sponsored by Lisa McCoy, your neighborhood State Farm agent.
The big hit in the first inning was a 2-run double by cleanup hitter Mikaela David, which brought in Ella Hartle and Hazel McCowin. On the play, David went to third on a fielding error and scored on a throwing error.
In the 5th inning, Madeline Earley clubbed a run-scoring double that bounced off the bottom of the wall in straightaway center field. Center field at Beaver Falls is 215 feet from home plate – in contrast, Hopewell’s CF fence is 200 feet.
In the game, Sophia Magistro, Maddi Pontis, and Earley led the way with 2 hits each. Hartle, David and Annabeth Sembower each collected a hit. David led the way with 3 RBIs, while Hartle, Pontis and Earley had 2 RBI apiece. Magistro, Sembower, McCowin, Lily Parish and Cadence Zito each drove in a run.
Magistro and Hartle scored 3 runs, with McCowin, Pontis and Earley scoring 2 runs and David, Sembower, Parish, Zito and Addison Pavlisko all scored one run.
On the mound, 3 Hopewell pitchers combined for a 1-hitter. Ella Hartle got the start and went the first 2 innings, allowing just 1 hit, 0 walks and striking out 5 Beaver Falls batters. Madeline Earley pitched the 3rd and 4th innings and didn’t allow a hit, walked 1 and struck out 4. Addison Pavlisko closed things out, not allowing a hit and striking out 2 batters.
