NEW BETHLEHEM – The Curwensville Lady Tide softball team won its 12th straight contest Tuesday afternoon. The Tide traveled to Redbank Valley High School and came home with an abbreviated 11-1 victory. Curwensville stretches its 2008 season mark to 13-1.
Erin Bressler, Morgan Peterman and Shannon McDonald paced the Curwensville offense with two hits apiece. McDonald and Bressler had doubles, as did Ashley Demchak and Stacey Johnson as the Tide shortened the game to five innings with their offensive assault.
The big inning for the Lady Tide was when they scored six runs in the top half of the third frame.
Redbank pitcher, Bowser, walked three straight Lady Tide in Jenessa Stiles, Tess Bloom and Bressler. Singles by Peterman and Holly Lansberry, plus a couple of Redbank Valley errors, gave the Lady Tide a 10-0 bulge after just two and a half innings.
Head coach of the Tide, Allen Leigey, spoke about Bressler and Peterman, “Erin (Bressler) and Morgan (Peterman) are doing a great job at the bottom of the order. That really puts a lot of pressure on the opposition. The other team can’t take anyone for granted in our lineup.”
The Lady Tide gave up their first run in six games since defeating St. Mary’s 4-1. Redbank Valley picked up an unearned run in the second inning ending Curwensville’s scoreless inning streak at 25.
Lansberry once again went the distance, striking out 11 hitters and extending her record to 11-1.
Curwensville makes the long trek to Sheffield on Wednesday in a make-up contest. The game was rained out last Saturday. The Lady Tide beat Sheffield twice last season, 13-0 and 9-0.
CURWENSVILLE – Holly Lansberry p 3112, Sara Clark lf 3101, Shannon McDonald ss 4120, Ashley Demchak c 3011, Jenessa Stiles 3b 2100, Stacey Johnson 1b 3110, Tess Bloom cf 1210, Erin Bressler rf 2221, Morgan Peterman 2b 2222, Lauren McKeown ph 1000. TOTALS – 24 11 10 7
REDBANK VALLEY – A. Stepulla rf/lf 3010, T. Fenstermaker 2b 3000, T. Troup ss 2000, B. Hildebrand c 0100, K. Bowser p/cf 2000, H. Crawford lf 1000, Wiant p 0000, A. McCullough 1b 2010, H. Wanninger 3b 2000, N. Boyles rf 2000. TOTALS – 17 1 2 0
SCORE BY INNINGS R H E
CURWENSVILLE 136 10 11 10 2
REDBANK VALLEY 010 00 1 2 2
ERRORS – Demchak, Johnson Wanninger, Stepulla. LOB – Curwensville 4 Redbank Valley 3. 2B – McDonald, Demchak Johnson and Bressler. SAC – Clark. SB -Bressler.
PITCHING IP H R ER BB K
CURWENSVILLE
Lansberry 5 2 1 0 1 11
REDBANK VALLEY
Bowser 4 2/3 10 11 8 3 3
Wiant 1/3 0 0 0 0 0
WP – Lansberry (11-1) LP – Bowser