Indiana High marches on to the state semifinals in Quad-A baseball, but the season ends for the two Heritage Conference teams in the PIAA state tournament quarterfinals.
Pat Dougherty recaps another dominant Indiana pitching performance in its quarterfinal against Central Valley.
Coach Dan Petroff says his well-stocked pitching staff got the job done, as usual.
Petroff brought in Greg Minnick with the bases load in the fifth inning of a 0-0 game, and Minnick, after pitching four scoreless innings on Monday, shut down the threat.
After last year’s one-run loss in the state championship game, Petroff says his players know how tough it is to make a playoff run.
At Gateway High School yesterday, Homer-Center fell behind early in their Class A baseball quarterfinal, and Eden Christian never let them back into the game.
Todd Marino has the story.
SOFTBALL
West Shamokin took a 1-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth inning but South Williamsport put up three in that inning and scored another in the sixth to come away with a 4-2 win in the Double-A quarterfinals.
Malena Stewart was 3-for-4 and drove in a run for the Wolves and Briar McClafferty hit a solo home run. West Shamokin outhit the Mountaineers 9-7, with Avery Elkin getting two base hits, as the Wolves finished a 20-5 season one sort of reaching the Final Four.
