SOL rallies past Lehigh Valley

SOL first seed in four-team bracket entering quarterfinals

PHILADELPHIA » Katie Muller accomplished the feat and it was still a bit unbelievable for the rising Quakertown senior.

After hitting triples in her first two at-bats in the Suburban One League’s Softball Carpenter Cup contest with Lehigh Valley Monday afternoon at FDR Park, Muller led off the bottom of the fourth inning by belting a ball into the left-center field gap and raced around the bases to reach third once again.

“I was shocked,” said Muller of triple No. 3. “That one I honestly didn’t even think was going to go that far cause it was a lower pitch. But it carried.”

Muller scored after all three of her hits while her second triple with two outs in the third drove in the first of seven runs for SOL in the frame, flipping a 5-1 deficit into a 8-5 lead.

Suburban One tacked on a run in the fourth then held off Lehigh Valley to claim a 9-7 victory in a game called after six innings due to the tournament’s one-hour, 45-minute time limit in pool play.

“Before the game Coach Scott mentioned how deep the fences were and that if you could get a hold of the ball in the gap it was going to go far,” Muller said. “So I did it for the first one then kept it going.”

The victory capped a 2-1 day for the SOL, an effort good enough to earn the top seed in the fourteam Bracket A and advance to the quarterfinal round to face Bracket C’s second seed 9 a.m. Wednesday. SOL opened Monday with a 7-4 loss to Chester County but bounced back with a 5-1 win over Delaware County.

“We’re moving on, which is great,” said SOL head coach Da

MIKE CABREY — MEDIANEWS GROUP Bella Nunn (North Penn) throws a pitch for SOL during its Softball Carpenter Cup game against Lehigh Valley on Monday.