NBC, Burlington Twp. to square off in final
HAMMONTON » It’s going to an all-Burlington County final in the championship game of the St. Joe’s of Hammonton Softball Tournament on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. after Burlington Township and Northern Burlington both won two games Saturday.
Smoking the ball all day, Northern Burlington crushed Benedictine, 13-2, and Triton Regional, 14-0. Amanda Gonzalez picked up both pitching wins, finishing with 10 strikeouts on the day.
The second-ranked Hounds (11-2) were led at the plate by Cameron Cassidy (seven hits), Megan Berg (five hits, six RBIs), Lexi Blue (five hits, five RBIs), Madison Sisz (five hits) and Nicole Bondoc (four hits). Julia Mayernik blasted a home run in game two.
Burlington Township (10-1), meanwhile beat Timber Creek, 6-1, and host St. Joe’s, 5-1. Bailey Enoch got both wins and had 14 strikeouts.
Gracyn Banks homered against Timber Creek, and Mattison and Mackenzie Fitzpatrick doubled. Anaya Hunte had two hits in the win over St. Joe’s.
Burlington Twp. (9-1) 004 100 0 — 6 7 0 Timber Creek 000 000 1 — 1 3 1 WP-Enoch. LP-Kasprzak. 2B-Palentchar (BT), Fitzpatrick (BT). HR-Banks (BT), Moore (TC). Burlington Twp. (10-1) 020 100 2 — 5 6 1 St. Joe’s Hammonton 100 000 0 — 1 2 4 WP-Enoch. LP-Veneziale. 2B-Henry (BT).
HAMMONTON TOURNEY HAMMONTON » Bordentown was eliminated in the first round by Delsea, 4-2. Shawnee defeated Sterling, 5-3, but then fell to Kingsway, 8-1.
New Egypt and Rancocas Valley were to have played in later games last night.
FIRST ROUND Bordentown 000 200 0 — 2 3 0
Delsea 000 013 x 4 4 2
Sterling 001 200 0 — 3
Shawnee 013 100 x — 5 WP-Pagano. LP-Skelly. 2B-Cooker (S).
SECOND ROUND Shawnee 000 0100 0 — 1
Kingsway 004 040 x — 8 WP-Deminik. LP-Cooker. HR-McGherin (S), Deminik.
WILLIAMSPORT TOURNEY WILLIAMSPORT, PA. » After winning its first game Friday night, Conwell Egan lost its second by the score of 3-2 to Lower Dauphin in a rain-shortened event. Devon Davage singled and tripled for the Eagles. Amber Stansfield threw well in defeat with a five-hitter and five strikeouts.
Conwell-Egan (7-6) 000 010 1 — 2 7 Lower Dauphin 201 000 x — 3 5 WP-Holinger. LP-Stansfield. 2B-Costik (LD), Schwatz (LD). 3B-Savage (CE).
REGULAR SEASON MONROE 5, WW-PS 2 PRINCETON JCT. » Dana Jung, Sharon Lam and Allie Rome each had two hits, but South still came up short. Sam Hastings, Jung and Leah Churinskas also doubled for the Pirates. Monroe 002 100 2 — 5 8 1
WW-PS (8-5) 002 000 0 — 2 11 1 WP-Kuchinski. LP-Kaul. 2B-Hastings (WWS), Jung (WWS), ?Churinskas (WWS). HR-Fopero (M), Shiera (M).
LAWRENCEVILLE 7, HILL 3 POTTSTOWN, PA. » The Big Red (9-2) got a combined three-hitter from Lindsay Kucker and Ciara Hoover. Hoover stroked two doubles, while outstanding freshman Alyna Balowitz smashed a triple and long home run.
Lawrenceville (9-2) 220 100 2 — 7 15 3 Hill1010010—332
WP-Kucker. LP-Dempsey. 2B-Hoover (L) 2. 3BBalowitz (L). HR-Balowitz, Giacche (H).
HUN 3, BLAIR 2 PRINCETON » Hun captured 10-inning thriller in which both teams scored twice in the ninth before the Raiders won it with the international tiebreaker in effect. Hanna Babuschak drove in two runs. Alann Pearson pitched a three-hitter and struck out 13 for the win. Jess Schaible fanned 14 in defeat. Abby Zucatti had two hits for Hun. Lawrenceville and Huna are now one game behind Blair in the MAPL standings.
Blair (8-2) 000 000 002 0 — 2 3 3
Hun (6-4) 000 000 002 1 — 3 5 2 WP-Pearson. LP-Schaible..
LENAPE VALLEY 6, DELAWARE VALLEY 0 BAPTISTOWN » The Dogs suffered just their second loss of the year and were knocked out of their county tournament in the process. Losing pitcher Megan Haff had DelVal’s lone hit.