Run-scoring singles by Abby Warnagiris and Cameran Chambers fueled a five-run 12th-inning rally and powered Moon Area to a wild 12-8 victory over host Upper St. Clair in a WPIAL Class 5A Section 3 softball game Thursday.
Sydney Ray contributed a sacrifice fly in the 12th and two runs scored on a Panther error.
Upper St. Clair scored once in the bottom of the 12th, but the Tigers held on for the win.
Moon pitcher Katie DeMarco did yeoman’s work, hurling the first 11 1/3 innings before giving way to Warnagiris with one out in the 12th. DeMarco yielded seven earned runs on 15 hits and three walks but managed to endure for the win.
DeMarco also swung a big bat, going 5 for 7 with an RBI and four runs scored. Chambers finished with three hits and drove in four runs and Warnagiris also had three hits.
Macy Trost and Sydney Ray each had two hits; Trost drove in three and Ray one.
The two teams battled to a 6-6 tie after seven innings and the game remained tied until the top of the 11th inning when Moon moved in front 7-6. DeMarco’s single moved the automatic runner, Danica Bacu, to third with one out and Trost stroked a base hit to center field to score Bacu.
Upper St. Clair tied the score in the bottom of the 11th on Geneva Eisinger’s two-out RBI single.
Moon opened the scoring with a pair of runs in the first inning, with both coming home on Trost’s base hit.
The Tigers added a third run in the third inning on Alina McMahon’s RBI single.
DeMarco held the Panthers scoreless through the first four innings, but they erupted for three runs in the fifth inning.
Brooklyn Kemp’s two-run single was the big blow, and Caroline Barnard’s sacrifice fly tied the score.
Moon answered with three runs of its own in the top of the sixth, with all three runs scoring on Chambers’ bases-loaded double. That gave Moon a 6-3 lead.
But Upper St. Clair came right back with three runs of its own, tying the score at 6-6.
BASEBALL
Montour 2, Thomas Jefferson 1
Zander Stern came up big in the late going both on the mound and at the plate for the Spartans as they pushed across a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to edge the Jaguars in a Class 5A Section 4 game at Montour.
Stern delivered the game-winning single with one out and the bases loaded in a 1-1 tie.
Dalton Young started the rally in the seventh with a walk and he moved to third on Ryan Gamble’s single and an error. After a flyout, an intentional walk loaded the bases and Stern followed with his game-inning base hit.
Stern’s plate heroics came after a stellar turn on the mound in the top of the inning.
Thomas Jefferson put runners at second and third with one out, and Stern was called upon to relieve Olliver Wovchko on the mound. Stern struck out the first batter he faced, then induced the next hitter to ground out, ending the threat and preserving the 1-1 tie.
Montour trailed 1-0 heading into the fifth inning but pulled even on a walk, a base hit by Caleb Armbruster and Matteo Weber’s RBI single.
The Jaguars took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on a walk, an error, a wild pitch and Noah Kaszer’s sacrifice fly.
Montour finished with five hits and no one had more than one.
Michael Ivanoff pitched the first four innings for Montour, giving up an unearned run on four hits while walking three and striking out three.
Wovchko pitched 2 1/3 innings and allowed three hits while striking out three.
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Pine-Richland 3, Moon Area 1
The Rams took three of four sets to claim a victory over the Tigers in a Class 3A Section 3 match Thursday night at Moon.
Pine Richland won by scores of 25-12, 25-11, 24-26 and 25-18.
In the only set it won, Moon trailed 22-17 before rallying to tie the score at 24-24 and then capturing the final two points to take the set.
No individual statistics were available.
Shaler 3, Montour 0
The Titans posted the sweep, coming from behind in the first game to win 25-21 and then taking the final two sets 25-19 and 27-25 in a Class 2A non-section contest at Shaler.
No other details were available.
Photos by Mike Longo Jr.
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