BASEBALL
Greencastle-Antrim 3, Shippensburg 2: Logan Shifflett’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth inning proved to be the margin of victory for the Blue Devils over rival Shippensburg in a home Mid Penn Colonial game Tuesday afternoon.

Logan Shifflett

Ryan Farrow led off the eighth inning with a single and advanced to third when Ethan Ford doubled down the left-field line. After an intentional walk by pitcher Ethan Miler to load the bases, Shifflett hit his game-winning fly ball.

Miller had held Greencastle (2-1, 1-0 MPC) in check, giving up a run in the second on a triple by Parker Funk and RBI hit by Jarek Szaflarski, and an unearned run on the sixth after a Ford single and a sac bunt by Carter McCauley. Miller ended up allowing 8 hits and 2 walks.

Landon Huth pitched 5 scoreless innings for G-A, but the Greyhounds went ahead 2-1 in the top of the sixth on an RBI double by Everson Weller and a triple by Kaden Shope. Huth allowed 6 hits and a walk and struck out 5. McCauley pitched the final 1.1 innings to get the win.

“The big thing today was to limit the walks — we had 8 in our first game and 6 on Friday,” Greencastle coach Eric Shaner said. “Landon did ace stuff today, but they put some good swings on several of his good pitches.

“We’re growing up and we’ll take wins any way we can get them. We have our flaws but we can learn from our mistakes.”

SOFTBALL
Greencastle-Antrim 6, Shippensburg 3: The Blue Devils passed a good test Tuesday afternoon by sending the Lady Hounds to a Mid Penn Colonial defeat in Shippensburg.

Kylie Kerns

Greencastle (3-0, 1-0 MPC) scored in 5 of the 7 innings and pitcher Mackenzie Wingert hurled a 6-hitter. G-A led 3-2 after 3 innings, then scored single runs in each of the last 3 innings.

Kylie Kerns was 3-for-4 and knocked in a pair of runs for the Blue Devils, Makayla Jerin was 2-for-4 with a double and 2 RBIs, Alexis Jones was 2-for-2 with a double and Kaiden Zimmerman hit a double.

For Shippensburg, Alexis Kitner was 3-for-3, Olivia Lebitz was 2-for-4 with 2 runs batted in and pitcher Riley Mullen gave up 9 hits and 4 walks and struck out 9.

Wingert struck out 2, did not issue a walk and all 3 of the runs charged to her were unearned.

In the Blue Devils’ 2-run third inning, Jones led off with a single, followed by a base hit from Caroline Logsdon. A walk to Meadow Gambacurta loaded the bases and Jerin’s single to leftfield plated both runs.

GIRLS TRACK & FIELD
Greencastle-Antrim 76, Shippensburg 74: The Greyhounds won the first two relays, but the Blue Devils pulled out a win in the 4 x 400 relay to end the Mid Penn Colonial meet with a two-point victory on Tuesday at Kaley Field.

Jaylynn Schmuck

Shippensburg outscored G-A 51-36 on the track, but G-A held a 40-23 advantage in field events. Jaylynn Schmuck captured the long (16-3) and triple jump (33-6.5) for the Blue Devils, Bailey Hurley was first in the shot put (28-3) and discus (113-11), Piper Linn won the pole vault (11-0) and Lillian Kauffman took the javelin (102-4).

Claire Paci had a heavy work load and earned 3 wins on the track for G-A (1-0, 1-0 MPC), taking the 800 (2.21), 1600 (5:41) and 3200 (12:43.7), while Shippensburg won the rest of the events.

Greencastle’s winning 4 x 400 relay team ran a time of 4:17.5 and included Hailey Baker, Anna Sullivan, Schmuck  and Paci.

For the Lady Hounds, Alyssa Trn rolled up firsts in the 100 (13.2), 200 (27-4) and high jump (5-0). Other winners for Ship included Marissa Kyner (110 H, 17.6), Victoria Kalp (300 H, 52.0) and Skylen Renshaw (400, 1:03.5).

BOYS TRACK & FIELD
Greencastle-Antrim 81, Shippensburg 69: G-A held a slight edge in first places (10-8), and a bit more depth carried the Blue Devils to a 12-point win against the Greyhounds on Tuesday afternoon in a Mid Penn Colonial matchup at Kaley Field.

Hayden Parks

Hayden Parks racked up wins in the 800 (2:07.7), 1600 (4:48) and 3200 (10:15.4) in the distance races for the Blue Devils (1-0, 1-0 MPC). Nolan Carr was victorious in the 100 (11.7) and 200 (23.9).

Other wins for the Blue Devils went to Mason Gelsinger (300 H, 43.0), the 4 x 800 and 4 x 100 relays, Conner Rennekamp (shot put, 47-7.75) and Conner Wright (javelin, 155-6).

For the Greyhounds, Bryce Pattillo picked up wins in the 400 (52.1) and high jump (5-10).

Other Ship winners included Xavier Rodriguez (110 H, 17.4), 4 x 400 relay, Aydan Keetch (long jump, 19-7), Donnie Nori (triple jump, 41-2), Logan Snyder (pole vault, 10-0) and Derek Lynch (discus, 153-5).