BELLEFONTE — Aspen Bishop and Kate Lansberry belted home runs for the second day in a row and were two of four Clearfield girls with multi-hit games, but the Bellefonte bats were hot, too, and the Lady Raiders turned back the Lady Bison 16-11 in high school softball action at O’Leary Fields Tuesday.
Bellefonte, which had six players with more than one hit, tied Philipsburg-Osceola for first place in the Mountain League lead with its eighth consecutive win. The Lady Raiders are 10-1 with a 7-1 league record.
The make-up game loss dropped Clearfield to 3-4 in the league and 4-5 overall.
Lansberry and Abby Fedder had three hits apiece while Bishop and Karly Rumsky added two apiece for the Lady Bison, who held leads of 2-0 and 6-2 early.
Brooke Cline singled ahead of Bishop’s two-run homer in the first inning, her fourth of the season, but Rianna Trexler got the Lady Raiders even with a two-run double.
In the second frame, Lansberry broke the tie with her homer after Fedder singled. Then, Lindsay Hand was hit by a pitch and Mackenzie Lansberry doubled ahead of run-scoring hits by Rumsky and Bishop.
Bellefonte forged another tie on three walks, two hits and two passed balls and inched ahead 7-6 with a single marker in the third inning.
Hanna Lauck’s two-run double and Wetzler’s RBI single widened the gap to 10-6 in the fifth, but the Lady Bison made it a one-run game again in the top of the sixth.
Fedder led off with a single and circled the sacks on walks to Kate Lansberry, Hand and Mackenzie Lansberry. Rumsky and Cline drove in runs with forceouts.
A solo home run by Maddie Tice touched off a six-run outburst by the Lady Raiders in the lower sixth, with Lauck doubling for two RBIs and Mallorie Smith singled across another run before a Lady Bison misplay let in two more tallies.
Hand closed out the scoring with a single that plated Fedder and Kate Lansberry in the seventh inning.
Erica Hanes started for Clearfield and gave up five hits, three walks and six runs in two innings. Fedder finished up and was the losing hurler, allowing 11 hits, two walks and 10 runs, only four of which were earned.
Lexi Rogers was the winning pitcher, working five-plus innings and surrendering 11 hits and nine runs. She walked two batters and hit two. Smith pitched the final two frames, giving up three hits and two runs.
Top hitters for Bellefonte were Wetzler with three hits, Lauck with the two doubles and four RBIs, Trexler with two hits and three RBIs and Smith and Emma DeHaas with two hits apiece.
The Lady Bison get a rematch with the Lady Raiders Thursday at the Bison Sports Complex.
Mountain League Standings – Philipsburg-Osceola 7-1, Bellefonte 7-1, Bald Eagle Area 6-2, Clearfield 3-4, Central 3-4, Penns Valley 2-5, Tyrone 2-6, Huntingdon 0-7.
CLEARFIELD — 11
Mackenzie Lansberry 2b 4111, Karly Rumsky cf 4022, Brooke Cline ss 4111, Aspen Bishop lf 4123, Makayla Ross 1b 4010, Erica Hanes p 1000, Makeeli Redden ph 1000, Kirstin Norman 3b 1000, Abby Fedder 3b-p 4330, Kate Lansberry dp 3332, Lindsay Hand 2212, Kyra Mollura c (flex) 0000. TOTALS: 32 11 14 11.
BELLEFONTE — 16
Mallorie Smith cf-p 4321, Alexis Wetzler ss 5231, Rianna Trexler 3b 5123, Maddie Tice c 4121, Lissi Przybys 1b 4000, Lexi Rogers p 3110, Mckenna Port cf 2110, Emma DeHaas 2b 4420, Hanna Lauck lf 3124, Taylor Kerr rf 4211. TOTALS: 38 16 16 11.
Score by Innings
Clearfield    240 003 2 – 11 14 3
Bellefonte   241 036 x – 16 16 0
E – Cline 3. PB – Mollura 2. LOB – Clearfield 5; Bellefonte 9. 2B – M. Lansberry; Trexler, Port, DeHaas, Lauck 2. HR – Bishop (4), K. Lansberry (2); Tice. SB – K. Lansberry 2; DeHaas.
Pitching
Clearfield – Hanes 2 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 3 BB, 2 K; Fedder 4 IP, 11 H, 10 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 0 K.
Bellefonte – Lexi Rogers 5 IP, 11 H, 9 R, 9 ER, 2 BB, 1 K; Smith 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 K.
HB – Rogers 2 (Hanes, Hand).
W – Rogers. L – Fedder (2-5).
Lady Bison Scoreboard:
Date Opponent Score Record
3/23 CENTRAL ppd. 0 – 0
3/26 @ Curwensville 14 – 2 1 – 0
3/27 CENTRAL ppd. 1 – 0
3/29 @ Huntingdon ppd. 1 – 0
4/02 CENTRAL ppd. 1 – 0
4/03 @ Bellefonte ppd. 1 – 0
4/05 @ Huntingdon ppd. 1 – 0
4/06 TYRONE 8 – 18 1 – 1
4/09 @ Bald Eagle Area ppd. 1 – 1
4/11 PUNXSUTAWNEY 7 – 13 1 – 2
4/12 PENNS VALLEY 9 – 7 2 – 2
4/16 GLENDALE ppd. 2 – 2
4/17 @ Philipsburg-Osceola ppd. 2 – 2
4/18 @ Philipsburg-Osceola 2 – 8 2 – 3
4/19 CENTRAL ppd. 2 – 3
4/20 @ Central 8 – 6 3 – 3
4/20 @ Central 5 – 11 3 – 4
4/23 HUNTINGDON 10 – 3 4 – 4
4/24 @ Bellefonte 11 – 16 4 – 5
4/26 BELLEFONTE
4/28 @ Bald Eagle Area
4/30 @ Bradford
5/01 @ Tyrone
5/02 GLENDALE
5/03 @ Huntingdon
5/04 BALD EAGLE AREA
5/07 @ Penns Valley
5/09 @ Hollidaysburg
5/10 PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA
5/14 ALTOONA
