Dean Douglass stole home with two outs in the fifth inning to snap a 3-3 tie and lift Our Lady of the Sacred Heart to a 4-3 victory over Riverview Wednesday in a WPIAL Class 2A Section 3 baseball showdown.
The win enabled the Chargers to capture the Section 3 title outright, as they finished with an 11-1 record. It’s OLSH’s second section title in as many years.
Riverview entered the game trailing OLSH by one game in the standings, and a Raiders’ win would have given them a share of the section crown. Instead, Riverview finished at 9-3.
The Raiders opened the scoring with a three-run first inning. Eli DeVita singled home one run and Miles Duncan followed with a two-run double to make it 3-0.
A bases-loaded walk to OLSH’s Colby Lane cut the Chargers’ deficit to 3-1 in the second inning and Iseia Fields-Schulz drove in a run in the third inning to pull OLSH to within 3-2.
OLSH’s Gino Williams then evened the score in the fourth inning at 3-3 when he banged a two-out double that brought home Wyatt Walsh.
The game remained tied until the fifth. Sean Hudac led off the inning with a walk and pinch runner Walsh moved to second when Douglass was hit by a pitch.
After a pop out, a balk moved the runners up 90 feet. But Walsh was thrown out at the plate on Fields-Schulz’s sacrifice bunt, which moved Douglass to third.
With Bruno Williams at the plate, Douglass stole home to put OLSH on top, 4-3, and that proved to be the difference.
Fields-Schulz worked the first six innings on the mound and gave up eight hits and two earned runs. He walked just one and struck out six. Hudac came on in the seventh inning to retire the side in order and nail down the win.
Thomas Medwig and Fields-Schulz each had two hits to lead the Chargers’ six-hit attack.
Central Catholic 6, Montour 2
Yaniel Heredia’s three-run double keyed a four-run second-inning outburst and that carried the Raiders past the Spartans in a non-section game at Montour.
Each team scored a run in the first inning, with Montour’s run coming on a wild pitch.
But Central Catholic took advantage of three walks to load the bases in the second, and Heredia cleared them with his double to left.
CJ Proch’s base hit made it 5-1 and he delivered an RBI double in the fourth to extend the Raiders’ lead to 6-1.
Montour added its final run in the sixth inning on an error by the Central Catholic catcher that allowed Michael Ivanoff to score.
The Spartans loaded the bases in the sixth inning with two outs but could not score.
Bishop Canevin 11, Steel Valley 1
Jackson Maddix went 4 for 4, scored two runs and drove in a pair to spark the visiting Crusaders past the Ironmen in a non-section game.
Maddix had a pair of singles, a double and a triple in the win, as he accounted for four of his team’s 10 hits.
Maddix drove in the game’s first run in the opening inning, then contributed an RBI single in the five-run third inning that extended Bishop Canevin’s lead to 6-1.
Tyler Maddix contributed an RBI single, as did Layne Gerba.
Brady Wagner drove in three runs for the Crusaders, one of which came on a double, and Jamin Brock also had an RBI.
Kole Olszewski pitched the first four innings and gave up just two hits and a run. He walked three and struck out eight and Gerba pitched two scoreless innings in relief.
Springdale 11, Carlynton 6
Noah Robbins tripled home two runs to highlight a six-run second-inning rally, and that proved to be the difference as the Dynamos beat the Cougars in a Class 2A Section 3 game at Springdale.
Carlynton jumped to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning when Isaac Anker tripled home a run and then scored on an errant throw.
But Springdale answered with a run in the home half of the first, then erupted for six in the second.
Anker also drove in a run with a fielder’s choice, as did Eric Firle, in the third inning that cut Springdale’s lead to 7-4, but the Dynamos answered with two in the bottom of the inning.
Carlynton finished with seven hits, and no one had more than one. Tylere Henrich had a hit and drove in two runs.
Quaker Valley 10, Sto-Rox 0
Ryan Finamore went 3 for 3 and drove in three runs as the Quakers overpowered the Vikings in a Class 3A Section 1 game.
Finamore’s RBI single in the first inning gave Quaker Valley a 1-0 lead and he doubled home a run in a three-run second inning for the winners. He tacked on an RBI single in the fourth inning that helped extend his team’s lead to 7-0.
Marquise Thomas accounted for Sto-Rox’s only hit, a leadoff single in the fourth inning.
Quaker Valley pitchers Jack Cindrich and Nolan Wagoner did not walk a batter and combined to strike out nine in the five-inning contest.
SOFTBALL
Moon Area 8, Quaker Valley 1
Katie DeMarco pitched a five-hitter and helped her own cause at the plate by going 3 for 3 and driving in a run as the Tigers whipped the Quakers in a non-section game.
DeMarco struck out 13 and did not walk a batter in her five innings of work.
Offensively, Moon totaled nine hits, with Cami Chambers and Macy Trost each contributing two hits and two RBIs.
Trost’s RBI single in the first inning gave Moon a 2-0 lead, and Chambers’ two-run single in the second inning was the key blow in a four-run rally. Trost also drove in a run with a single in that inning.
DeMarco did not walk a batter and struck out 13 for Moon.
Montour 12, Mars 1
Shania Cope had two hits and drove in four runs, three of which came on a fourth-inning double, to propel the Spartans past the Fightin’ Planets in a Class 5A non-section game at Montour.
Caylee Moser finished with two hits and drove in two runs with a base hit in a seven-run fifth-inning rally for the Spartans. Danielle Terpack’s two-run single in the third inning wiped out an early Mars lead and Montour never looked back.
Also driving in runs for the Spartans were Emmy Ellis, Hailey Herbst and Natalie Ciamacco.
Montour pitcher Gabby McDowell gave up four hits and three walks while striking out two in her five innings of work.
Cornell 12, Bishop Canevin 5
Katie Wegley collected two hits and drove in five runs and Mckenna Griffith had three hits, scored four runs and drove in one to power the Raiders past the Crusaders in a Class 1A Section 1 game.
Samantha Mellus added two hits and drove in three runs for Cornell, which jumped to a 1-0 first-inning lead and then added three in the second to build a 4-0 lead.
Bishop Canevin fought its way back, scoring single runs in the second through fifth innings, and by that time the Crusaders trailed just 5-4.
But Cornell tacked on two more runs in the sixth on Wegley’s two-run single, and then put the game out of reach with a five-run seventh inning.
Emma Ambriz drove in a run with a base hit in the seventh and Mellus delivered a three-run double.
Ava Washington had three hits to lead Bishop Canevin’s nine-hit attack while Macie McClain and Alexis Summers each added two. Desiah Trent drove in two runs for the Crusaders.
BOYS LACROSSE
Moon Area 19, Allderdice 2
The Tigers had 13 players record at least one goal or one assist in rolling past the Dragons in a Class 2A Section 2 match Tuesday night.
New varsity goal scorers for Moon were Josh Koren, Griffin Rupp and Owen Hopkins.
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