SOFTBALL
Greencastle-Antrim 5, Big Spring 2: The unbeaten Blue Devils were pushed for the first time this season, but still came through with a Mid Penn Colonial victory over the Bulldogs on Wednesday afternoon in a home game.
Zhen Reuter
Greencastle (7-0, 5-0 MPC) fell behind 2-0, but starter Paiton Gordon did not allow another run and her teammates eventually plated some runs — one in the third inning, 3 in the fifth and one more in the sixth.
G-A coach Mark DeCarli said, “We had to play some situational softball today, and we put down some good bunts and had some clutch hits. It’s the first time we’ve faced adversity, and the girls responded well.”
Gordon ended up hurling a 6-hitter, with no walks and 6 strikeouts.
“She was a little tight at the beginning and Big Spring hit the ball well,” DeCarli said. “But then she settled down, threw some changeups and got them off-balance.”
In Greencastle’s third inning, Becky Leckron singled and moved around on Aliyah Masser’s sacrifice bunt and base hits by Zhen Reuter and Caroline Logsdon.
Reuter reached on an error in the fifth and a Logsdon single and a walk to Meadow Gambacurta loaded the bases. One run scored on a passed ball and to more scored on groundouts by Kylie Kerns and Kaidyn Zimmerman.
In the sixth, Leckron reached on an error went to second on a passed ball and scored on a Masser single.
Reuter, Logsdon and Erika Hoover each had 2 hits and Hoover hit a double.
BASEBALL
Greencastle-Antrim 21, Big Spring 3: The Bulldogs led 2-1 after 3 innings, but once the Blue Devils’ offense got it going, it really took off and G-A won the Mid Penn Colonial game in a rout Wednesday afternoon in Newville.
Andrew Weaver
Greencastle (5-2, 4-1 MPC) scored 8 times in the fourth inning and added 12 more in the sixth.
“It started ominously,” Blue Devil coach Eric Shaner said. “I called the guys in before the fourth inning, and said Big Spring was hitting a bunch of line drives and that’s what we needed to do. And we turned it around and scored a bunch of runs.
“It was nice to see us limit damage when they were batting and then respond when we were at the plate.”
In the 8-run fourth, Landon Myers hit a 2-run single, Bryce Davidson and Andrew Weaver had RBI base hits, and 3 runs scored on a single by Elvin Robles when the Bulldogs made an error.
Robles was 3-for-3 with 4 RBIs and 3 runs, and five Blue Devils were 2-for-4 — Weaver (RBI), Nolan Sullivan (double, 4 RBIs, 4 runs); Myers (2 runs, 2 RBIs), Carter McCauley (3 RBIs) and Davidson (2 RBIs).
Ben Horst got the win on the mound with 2 innings of relief, allowing 4 hits and an earned run.