SOFTBALL
Greencastle-Antrim 13, Waynesboro 5: The Blue Devils found themselves down 5-2 after three innings after the Maidens clubbed 3 early home runs, but put together two big innings later to earn a Mid Penn Colonial victory Saturday on the road.
Paiton Gordon
Solo home runs in the first inning by A. Monk and by R. Shetler in the second, plus a 3-run homer by Lydia Shank in the third inning gave Waynesboro (3-8, 1-6 MPC) the lead.
Greencastle scored twice in the top of the third when Alexis Jones walked, Meadow Gambacurta hit an RBI double with two outs and Makayla Jerin delivered a single to score Gambacurta.
In the fourth, the Blue Devils (7-2, 5-1 MPC) scored four times to take a 6-5 lead. An error and two fielder’s choice grounders preceded five consecutive singles, by Jones, Caroline Logsdon, Zhen Reuter, Gambacurta and Jerin.
Nursing that one-run lead, Greencastle put together six hits and two walks to score seven times in the top of the seventh inning to put the game away.
Paiton Gordon entered the game in relief and held Waynesboro scoreless for the final four innings. She gave up just 3 hits and no walks and struck out one. Abigail McElory suffered the loss for ‘Boro.
For Greencastle, Gambacurta was 2-for-3 with 3 RBIs, Jerin had a 3-for-5 game with a pair of runs driven in, Logsdon was 2-for-5 with 2 RBIs, Reuter was 2-for-5 and Jones walked 3 times and scored 3 runs.
BASEBALL
Waynesboro 2, Greencastle-Antrim 1: Mason Gochenour threw a complete game and ignited the game-winning run to lead the Indians over the Blue Devils in a Mid Penn Colonial game on Saturday in Greencastle.
Jarek Szaflarski
Gochenour limited G-A to just 5 hits. In the top of the seventh, Waynesboro (7-3, 6-1 MPC) got a leadoff walk, then Gochenour lifted a double over the centerfielder’s head. The next batter, Tank Benedict, hit a sacrifice fly to give ‘Boro the lead.
Greencastle (4-5, 2-4 MPC) scored its run in the fifth. Logan Shifflett led off with a single and Jarek Szaflaski was safe at first on a bunt after an error, allowing courtesy runner Cam Niland to get to third base. Garrett Decker hit a grounder to third and Niland beat the throw home.
After a wild pitch, the Blue Devils had runners on second and third, but three consecutive outs ended the threat.
“We have to be better at that,” Blue Devils coach Eric Shaner. “We had three opportunities with runners on third and less than two outs and couldn’t score them.”
In the sixth, Ethan Ford and Avery Horst started the inning with a single and walk. Carter McCauley laid down a bunt, but was called out at first (“It was a really bad blown call in a huge spot,” Shaner said). The next two batters made outs to end the inning.
The Indians made the most of just 3 hits. G-A starter Landon Huth allowed 2 in 4 innings and McCauley just one in 3 innings.
TRACK & FIELD
G-A competes at Roddick: The 97th annual Jack Roddick Invitational was held at Shippensburg University on Saturday and the Blue Devils had three athletes turn in top-10 efforts.
Piper Linn
For the girls, Claire Paci was the runner-up in the 1600, running a time of 5:00.17 to finish behind Baylee Espinosa of Lewisburg (4:56.73). Paci also took seventh in the 800 with a time of 2:20.96.
Piper Linn placed third in the girls pole vault, hitting a height of 11-6. The Blue Devils tied for 16th place as a team.
In the boys javelin, G-A’s Chase Davidson came in 10th with a throw of 158-6.
For Waynesboro’s girls, True Benchoff placed sixth in the 300 hurdles (47.27) and Jada Creager took sixth in the pole vault at 11-0. The Maidens’ 4 x 100 team finished ninth in 51.01. Shippensburg’s girls 4 x 800 team took 10th in 10:16.18.
In boys events, Ship’s Derek Lynch placed eighth in the discus (152-10) and Grant Thompson of Waynesboro was ninth in the triple jump (42-2).