A pair of Moon Area athletes won two individual events and three of their teammates each won one Wednesday at the Midwestern Athletic Conference track and field meet, held at Shenango High School.
Rachel Stepp and Sonya Taylor brought home a pair of gold medals while Jared Moyer, Noah Koepfer and Alena Taylor each captured one, and the Tigers also featured two victorious relay efforts, one in each of the boys and girls meets.
Stepp won both the 200- and 400-meter events with times of 24.54 and 55.93, respectively, and Sonya Taylor outpaced the field in both the 800 (2:18.60) and 1,600 (5:13.06).
Moyer won the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 40.75 seconds, Koepfer took first in the pole vault with a mark of 14 feet, 4 inches, and Alena Taylor prevailed in the 300 hurdles in 45.42.
Moon’s 4×400 relay team of Samuel Herrera, Evan Senkevich, Marcus McGill and Moyer posted a winning time of 3:24.43 while on the girls side, the Tigers 4×400 relay group consisting of Stepp, Alena Taylor, Sonya Taylor and Maria Depner won with a time of 3:58.95.
McGill placed second in the 400 and Montour’s Andrew Ludwick won the silver in the 1,600. Ellen Senkevich of Moon took second in the triple jump.
Other top five finishers on the boys side were Evan Senkevich (3rd-400), Herrera (3rd-800), Evan Slawuta (Moon 5th-2:04.27), Ethan Moldovan (Carlynton 3rd-3,200), Shawn Ghafoor (Montour 3rd-long jump, 4th-triple jump, 4th-high jump) and Moon’s 4×800 relay team, which placed third in 8:29.09. That group consisted of Evan Slawuta, Ryan Slawuta, Joseph Weaver and Herrera.
Other top five individual finishers on the girls side were Alena Taylor (3rd-100 hurdles), Tiffany Miller (Montour 3rd-800), Elise Ashcroft (Moon 4th-800 and 4th-1,600), Alexis Schuler (Moon 4th-3,200), Ellen Senkevich (Moon 3rd-high jump), Lani Blevins (Carlynton 5th-3,200) and Depner (5th-discus).
Moon’s quartet of Gabrielle Spitznagel, Alexis Schuler, Erinn Ashcroft and Callie Speerhas finished third in the 4×800 relay while Carlynton’s team of Isabella Sysak, Maria Leithauser, Ava Pancake and Blevins took fourth.
SOFTBALL
Sewickley Academy 8, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 6
Alana Spencer’s RBI double in the fifth inning snapped a 5-5 tie and lifted the Panthers past the Chargers in a non-section game at Youthtowne.
Sewickley Academy led 3-0 going into the bottom of the third inning before OLSH scored twice
on RBI singles by Camryn Hummel and Mya Eshenbaugh.
OLSH plated three more runs in the fourth inning to go in front 5-3. A run-scoring fielder’s choice tied the score at 3-3 and Lizzie Smith followed with a slow roller up the third base line, and that brought home Lauralei Kroniser with the go-ahead run.
A passed ball enabled Julia Pinter to score, making it 5-3.
But the Panthers erupted for four runs in the fifth and that proved to be the difference.
Sydney Trippe had three hits for OLSH while Kroniser and Hummel each had two.
Upper St. Clair 6, Moon Area 3
The visiting Panthers built a 6-0 lead over the first five innings and went on to post a Class 5A Section 3 victory over the Tigers.
An error on a ground ball allowed Upper St. Clair’s first run to score in the fourth inning and Geneva Eisinger’s RBI single accounted for the second run.
The Panthers added four more runs in the fourth, including one that came in on Nora Stutzman’s base hit. Stutzman had two of the Panthers’ six hits off Moon pitcher Katie DeMarco, who gave up two earned runs in going the distance.
Sydney Ray had two hits, including a two-run double, for Moon.
South Side 22, Bishop Canevin 2
Ariel Poelcher went 4 for 4 with three doubles and a home run and knocked in five runs to pace the Rams past the Crusaders in a Class 1A Section 1 game that ended after four innings.
Brooke McNary added three hits, including a home run, and drove in five while Emma DeLong and Kelly Tingler each drove in three runs.
Lia Pilarski went 2 for 2 and drove in one of Bishop Canevin’s runs.
BASEBALL
Taylor Allderdice 12, Bishop Canevin 7
The Dragons brought out the heavy lumber, smacking five home runs en route to a victory over the host Crusaders.
Kingston Mankoski’s three-run homer in the first inning gave Allderdice a 3-0 lead but Jackson Maddix’s two-run shot in the bottom of the inning pulled Bishop Canevin to within a run.
The score remained 3-2 until the fourth when Graves and Noah Landi each belted two-run homers for Allderdice to make it 7-2.
Lukas Stead’s grand slam in the fifth made it 11-2, but the Crusaders put five runs on the board in the fifth. Brooklyn Harvey’s solo home run started the scoring, Brady Wagner added a two-run single, a fourth run scored on an error and Maddix added a sacrifice fly.
Maddix went 4 for 4 while Harvey and Nate Astor each had three hits.
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