SMITHSBURG, Md. – Chase Sarber had three hits and drove two runs on Friday to help lift Smithsburg to a 9-5 victory over Walkersville as the Leopards honored their graduating baseball players on Senior Day.
After allowing the Lions to take an early lead, Smithsburg rallied for five runs in the bottom of the second inning, highlighted by Heath Githens two-run single. The Leopards scored on an error in the third to move to a 6-2 lead and protected the advantage to get the win.
Githens pitched six innings for the win for Smithsburg. He allowed three runs on six hits, while walking three and striking out six. Githens also drove in two runs.
Gavin Ramarge added two hits for the Leopards, who stole eight bases in the game.
Mallardi leads North Hagerstown
Senior Matt Mallardi fell a single short of collecting North Hagerstown’s first hitting cycle in 59 years on Thursday in the Hubs’ 13-3 win over Frederick.
Mallardi homered, tripled and doubled with three RBIs in the six-inning victory. He never got a fourth at-bat because of the early ending to the game.
Mallardi missed on matching the only cycle in school history, set by Marty Sauble on April 18, 1967. Sauble drove in seven runs, scored three times and stole three bases in North’s 20-5 win over Boonsboro.
With Thursday’s win, North moved to 8-4 and ended a three-game losing streak.
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL
South Hagerstown 3, Oakdale 1
IJAMSVILLE, Md. – Baylee Hancock hammered a two-run homer in a three-run fourth inning to give South Hagerstown all the production it needed to score a win over Oakdale.
Hancock’s homer and Kaelynn Kunkle’s RBI grounder helped the Rebels erase the Bears’ early one-run lead.
Kailia Burke shut down Oakdale with a complete-game four-hitter. She allowed an unearned run in the first and struck out three without a walk to complete the game in 80 pitches.
The game was delayed by lightning for an hour and was played quickly enough to avoid a downpour.
Kunkle finished with two of South’s six hits while Kunkle also walked twice, once intentionally.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Ruffner ties school record as Shepherd splits with Kutztown
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. – Madelayne Ruffner continued her torrid pitching pace by tying her school record for strikeouts in a game in an opening game 1-0 PSAC East victory in extra innings over Kutztown.
Shepherd (20-20, 15-13) lost 11-2 in the nightcap.
Ruffner fanned 19 in a 10-inning effort to tie the single-game record she set earlier in the season against Millersville. Ruffner has 801 strikeouts for her career. She moved to 12-7 with the shutout allowing just three hits and two walks.
Shepherd won the game in the bottom of the 10th, starting with infielder Hailey Putnam starting on second base as the ghost runner under extra-inning tiebreaker rules. Jordan Gugliuzza sacrificed Putnam to third before she scored on Sam Colaw’s single to left.
Colaw led the Rams with a pair of hits.
Kutztown pitcher Amanda Slabicki took the loss, allowing the run on seven hits with two strikeouts over 9 1/3 innings.
Kutztown (31-17, 20-8) took a 2-0 lead in the first in the nightcap with on Morgan Slomkowski’s RBI double.
Shepherd got one run back in the bottom of the inning on Brenna Collis’ double.
The Golden Bears added five runs on four hits and an error to take a 7-1 advantage in the second and got a three-run homer from Alexa Stevens in the four-run third to take an 11-1 lead.
The Rams scored in the fourth as Boonsboro’s Haylee Hartman doubled and scored on a single by Gugliuzza.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
East Stroudsburg 5-1, Shepherd 3-7
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. – Shepherd University’s Bodie Pullen had two hits and three RBI’s to lift Shepherd University to a 7-1 victory on Friday in a PSAC East doubleheader split with East Stroudsburg.
Pullen crushed a three-run homer in the sixth to give the Rams (26-20, 12-12) a 7-1 lead.
East Stroudsburg took a 1-0 lead in the second inning of the nightcap on a Cole Serfass double.
The Rams jumped to a 4-1 advantage in the fourth behind RBI doubles by Rubendall and freshman outfielder Cam Wilberding (Damascus, Md./Damascus). Pullen’s homer gave the Rams a six-run lead.
Pitcher Devin Mattei pitched seven innings to earn the win, allowing one run on six hits with three walks and three strikeouts.
In the opener, Shepherd took a 2-0 in the second, highlighted when Rubendall was hit by a pitch before scoring on a throwing error to highlight the rally.
East Stroudsburg (31-13, 17-7) scored one in the fifth when Connor Reilly singled and later scored on a single from Gabe Gillespie.
The Warriors took a 5-2 lead in the sixth behind a two-run single from Serfass.
The Rams scored a run in the seventh, started by a single by Andrew O’Brien before scoring on Ethan Burgreen’s groundout.
Serfass went 2-for-2 with one run scored with a pair of RBIs to pace the Warriors.
WOMEN’S GOLF
Shepherd finishes ninth at PSAC Championship
KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Sara Veara fired a three-round total of 248 to finish tied for 13th place individually on Friday to lead the Rams to a ninth-place finish in the 11-team PSAC Championship at Berkleigh Golf Club.
The Rams finished with a team total of 1,128. Gannon posted 938 to win the team title, while. Alexandria LeCureux of Gannon carded a 227 to take medalist honors.
Williamsport’s Kaylie Brown shot 290 and finished in 44th for the Rams, followed by Addison Buckland (294, 45th), and Natalee Johnson (296, 47th).
