May 8, 2023 3 min read

Softball

• Jefferson-Morgan scored three insurance runs in the top of the seventh, as the Rockets topped Mapletown, 8-4, in Class A Section 2 action Monday afternoon. 

Jefferson-Morgan’s Payton Farabee hit a two-run homer and singled. 

Mapletown pitcher Devan Clark helped her own cause with a double and two RBI. Clark stuck out eight and walked four. Teammate MaKenna Lotspeich tripled. 

Winning pitcher Kaylee Larkin struck out three and walked six in earning the win for the Rockets (6-6, 8-7), who are playoff bound. 

• Beth-Center swept a doubleheader against Washington in Class 2A Section 3. The Bulldogs won the first game, 14-5, before earning a 16-5 triumph in Game 2. 

Hannah Belmont had 10 strikeouts and walked three in winning the first game. She was 3-for-5 with a double. Teammate Alyvia Montgomery was 3-for-4, including a double. KJ McDaniel and Emma Pohill doubled for Beth-Center.

The Prexies’ Kaprice Johnson and Amari Oakley hit home runs. 

The Bulldogs’ Sonya Peterson was 2-for-3 and doubled in the second game. Washington’s Morgan Winters doubled. 

• Olivia Kolowitz pitched a five-inning no-hitter in Belle Vernon’s 12-1 victory over Albert Gallatin in Class 4A Section 2. 

Kolowitz struck out five and walked two.

Lexie Daniels had three RBI and tripled for the Leopards (10-2, 13-4). Grace Sokol had three singles. 

Belle Vernon’s Lauren VanDivner and Mia Zubovic each had two RBI. 

Baseball

• South Fayette’s 8-1 home victory over Upper St. Clair in Class 5A Section 2 brought a smile to Trinity as the Hillers qualified for the WPIAL playoffs with the Panthers’ loss.

Trinity and Upper St. Clair tied in the section at 3-7, but the two split their season series, which means both teams qualify. 

The Lions (7-3, 14-3) enter the playoffs as the section’s second-place team behind Bethel Park (9-1, 13-4). 

South Fayette scored three runs in the first, which was enough offense for pitcher Tyler Skeen, who allowed one unearned run on three hits in six innings. 

Anthony Diodata and Lucas Cooper doubled for the Lions. Teammate Michael DiMartini tripled. 

South Fayette’s Tyler Pitzer, a South Carolina pitching recruit, proved he can swing the bat, as he had two hits, including a solo home run. 

• Ryan Petras had four hits in Bethel Park’s 6-2 non-section victory at Ringgold. 

Petras doubled and had two RBI, as the Black Hawks (13-4) gear up for the playoffs as the champion in Class 5A Section 2. Ray Altmeyer added an RBI double for Bethel Park. John Chalus tripled. 

Alex Kolano drove in the Rams’ two runs with a single in the third. Ringgold (8-10) is also playoff bound.