Penns Valley Rally Dooms Lady Bison 9-6

HYDE – The Penns Valley girls softball team rallied for six runs over the final two innings to defeat Clearfield, 9-6, at the Bison Sports Complex on Tuesday afternoon.

The Lady Rams also beat the Lady Bison back on April 13, at Spring Mills, by a score of 11-4.

Penns Valley jumped out with three quick first inning runs to put Clearfield in a hole right from the start.

But coming off the high of winning its first game on Monday against Tyrone, the Lady Bison showed determination and fight to get back into the game and eventually get the lead until the sixth and seventh innings.

However, it was the defense that couldn’t make the big plays as Clearfield committed seven errors on the afternoon that quickly dashed any hopes of winning back to back games.

Nonetheless Clearfield picked up two runs in its first at bat as Brooke Cline led off by picking up a walk with Makeeli Redden following with a booming triple to right field that scored Cline.

Redden then would score on a well executed squeeze bunt from Erica Hanes that cut the Penns Valley edge to 3-2 after one.

Clearfield tied the game at 3-3 with a lone tally in the bottom of the third when Karly Rumsky smacked a double down the left field line and later scored on a Hanes two out single.

The Lady Bison had its biggest inning in the bottom of the fifth, scoring three times to jump out in front 6-3.

With one out in the fifth, Rumsky stroked another double, this time to left center, which was then followed by a Cline RBI double over the center fielder’s head.

Cline and Hanes, who reached on an error, would later score to give the Lady Bison the three run margin heading into the final two frames.

Then the defense of Clearfield committed two errors in each of the final two innings, allowing Penns Valley to score three in the sixth to tie the game at 6-6, and then score three more in the top half of the seventh to win 9-6.

Rumsky paced the Lady Bison offense with the two doubles while the Lady Rams got two hits from Lydia Collison, Ryleigh Cain and Emma Kubalak.

Penns Valley had four doubles, one each from Lydia Collison, Cassidy Stover, Cain and Kubalak.

The Lady Bison (1-14) are at home once again on Wednesday afternoon to battle arch rival Curwensville. Game time is at 3:45 pm.

PENNS VALLEY – 9 

Lydia Collison 2b 5122, Caroline Collison 4110, Dayna Brown ph 1000, Ryah Thompson lf 3100, Cassidy Stover c 4010, Ryleigh Cain 3b 4120, Abby Thom 1b 4000, Emma Kubalak p 2021, Harley Hess p 1200, Paige Kerstetter cf 2111, Devan Stoner ph/cf 1101, Mikenna Lyons ss 4101, Dayna Brown flex/rf 0000, TOTALS – 35 9 9 6

CLEARFIELD – 6

Brooke Cline ss 3211, Makeeli Redden 2b 3111, Molly Sartin 2b 1000, Erica Hanes rf/dp 3112, Abby Fedder p 3010, Maddie Lewis cr 0000, Makayla Ross 1b 3000, Aspen Bishop lf 3010, Kyra Mollura c 2000, Kate Lansberry dp 2010, Lindsay Hand rf 1000, Karly Rumsky cf 3220, Kirstin Norman flex/3b 0000, TOTALS – 27 6 8 4

SCORE BY INNINGS R H E

PENNS VALLEY 300 003 3 9 9 2

CLEARFIELD 201 030 0 6 8 7

ERRORS – Lyons, L. Collison, Redden, Norman, Cline, Rumsky, Ross, Fedder, Sartin. LOB – PENNS VALLEY – 8 CLEARFIELD – 3. 2B – L. Collison, Stover, Cain, Kubalak, Rumsky 2, Cline. 3B – Redden. SB – Hess, Lewis, Ross. SAC – Collison, Thom, Lyons, Hanes. DP – PENNS VALLEY 2, CLEARFIELD.  HBP – Thompson (by Fedder).

PITCHING

PENNS VALLEY

Kubalak 4 1/3 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 1BB, 2 K

Hess 2 2/3 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1BB, 2 K

CLEARFIELD

Fedder 7 IP, 9 H, 9 R, 5 ER, 2 BB , 5 K, 1 HB

WP – Hess. LP – Fedder (1-12).

UMPIRES: John Martino, Jim Pullman

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