CURWENSVILLE – The Curwensville Lady Tide softball squad made it two for two on Tuesday afternoon with a home field win over visiting Johnsonburg, 3-2.
The victory has the Lady Tide sitting at 2-0 on the young season.
Speaking of Young, Curwensville pitcher Rylee Young surrendered just four hits, while striking out 11 with no walks or earned runs given up.
The Lady Tide scored the game’s first runs, two in the bottom of the fourth, thanks to a couple of throwing errors by the Ramettes.
With two outs Curwensville freshman Keisha Maines singled to get things rolling.
Madison Bumbarger put down a bunt that was thrown away by Johnsonburg first baseman Ashton Watts that moved Maines and Bumbarger to second and third.
Lady Tide junior shortstop Hannah Dixon also bunted with Ramette third baseman Kylee Wall promptly throwing the ball away that allowed Maines to race home with the first run of the contest.
Young then followed with an RBI single that brought home Bumbarger.
Johnsonburg picked up its first run in the top half of the fifth inning to keep the score close at 2-1 in favor of the Lady Tide.
Curwensville scored in the bottom half of the fifth inning, in what proved to be the game winner, when with one out Emily Miller singled and Kelsi Bumbarger came on as her pinch runner.
A passed ball followed with Bumbarger moving to second base and then scoring on a Kaylee Sedgwick game winning double to right centerfield.
Johnsonburg picked up a run in the top of the sixth and threatened for more but the Tide defense came through to secure the victory.
Lady Tide second baseman Kaylee Harnett had two hits on the afternoon.
Allen Leigey, Curwensville head coach, said after the game, “The big thing was that we haven’t played a game since March 24 and we weren’t very crisp. Then when Johnsonburg threatened in the top of the sixth our defense came through enabling us to pick up the win.”
Weather permitting, the Lady Tide are to travel to St. Marys Wednesday to play Elk County Catholic with the first pitch scheduled for 4:15 pm.
JOHNSONBURG – 2
Jaylie Johnson cf 3011, Britnee Thorwart c 3010, Nicole Myers ss 3000, Kylee Wall 3b 3000, Ashton Watts 1b 3100, Hannah Park p 3010, Madison Herzing lf 3010, Jenna Tomaski 2b 3000, Skylar Sherry rf 3100, TOTALS – 27 2 4 1
CURWENSVILLE – 3
Hannah Dixon ss 3010, Rylee Young p 4011, Kaylee Harnett 2b 3020, Haley McGarry c 3000, Emily Miller dp 2010, Kelsi Bumbarger pr 0100, Kaylee Sedgwick 1b 3011, Teghan Jacobson rf 2000, Camryn Richards ph 1000, Keisha Maines lf 2110, Madison Bumbarger cf 2100, Mackenzie Anderson ph 1000, Chloe Tubbs flex/3b 0000, TOTALS – 26 3 7 2
SCORE BY INNINGS: R H E
JOHNSONBURG 000 011 0 2 4 3
CURWENSVILLE 000 210 x 3 7 4
ERRORS – Watts, Wall, Herzing. Young, H. McGarry, Tubbs, Jacobson. LOB – JOHNSONBURG – 4 CURWENSVILLE – 10. 2B – Sedgwick.
PITCHING
JOHNSONBURG
Park 6 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 7 K, 5 BB
CURWENSVILLE
Young 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 11 K, 0BB
WP – Young (2-0) LP – Park
UMPIRES: Tom Moore, Denny Kopenhaver
Lady Tide Scoreboard:
| Date | Opponent | Score | Record |
| 3/24 | CLARION | 3 – 1 | 1 – 0 |
| 4/04 | JOHNSONBURG | ppd. | 1 – 0 |
| 4/05 | JOHNSONBURG | 3 – 2 | 2 – 0 |
| 4/06 | @ Elk County Catholic | ||
| 4/09 | @ Moshannon Valley | ||
| 4/11 | GLENDALE | ||
| 4/13 | @ Purchase Line | ||
| 4/14 | KANE | ||
| 4/18 | @ Harmony | ||
| 4/19 | @ DuBois Central Catholic | ||
| 4/21 | BROCKWAY | ||
| 4/25 | PURCHASE LINE | ||
| 4/27 | @ Johnsonburg | ||
| 4/29 | @ West Branch | ||
| 5/02 | ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC | ||
| 5/04 | @ Sheffield | ||
| 5/04 | @ Sheffield | ||
| 5/05 | CLEARFIELD | ||
| 5/10 | @ Kane | ||
| 5/12 | DUBOIS CENTRAL CATH. | ||
| 5/17 | @ Brockway |