RV ends title drought; Pine Plains threepeats

Rondout Valley High completed its incredible run in the Section 9, Class B softball tournament by upending topseed Chester 6-0 in Saturday’s title game to claim its first sectional championship in 13 years.

Pine Plains, meanwhile, won its third straight Class C crown, defeating S.S. Seward 9-4. Class B Rondout 6, Chester 0

The seventh-seeded Ganders scored a pair of runs in the top of the third inning before putting the game away with a fourrun uprising in the sixth to earn a berth in Thursday’s 4 p.m. regional game against Section 1 champion Westlake at North Rockland. In winning the title, Rondout knocked off 10th-seeded Highland and No. 2 Marlboro in Marlboro on the same day before winning at No. 6 Rhinebeck in the semifinals.

Tori Decker tossed a six-hit shutout and helped herself, going 3 for 3 with an RBI. Lauren Parete had a triple, single and an RBI, while Bianca Novotny had two hits, including a double. Jessica Meyer added a double and an

RBI in the win.

The Ganders struck in the third when Parete drove in Fischer with a single and Novotny scored on a wild pitch. Rondout scored four times with two outs in the

sixth, with Novotny’s RBI double, Decker’s RBI single, Meyer’s run-scoring double and Parete’s RBI triple. Class C Pine Plains 9, Seward 4

The Bombers gave Alex McKenzie all the offense she needed, scoring a pair of runs in the bottom of the first before blowing things open in the second with six runs to

earn a berth in Thursday’s 5 p.m. regional contest against Pawling at Rhinebeck.

Lourdes belanger put Pine Plains up 2-0 with a 2-run double, plating Haley Strang and McKenzie before the Bombers scored four runs with two outs in the bottom of the second.

Strang’s RBI triple scored Kris Wilson before Cat Simmons

drove in a pair with a double. Jo Schmidt plated Simmons with a double to round the scoring in the inning. Miranda Koch’s 2-run double, followed by Wilson’s RBI triple in the fifth pushed the score to 9-0.

Seward responded with a run in the sixth and three more in the seventh to end the scoring.