Moshannon Valley sophomore pitcher Amy Tomasko tossed a five-inning no hitter against the Bellwood-Antis girls softball team at the George O. Martin Field in Bellwood on Tuesday afternoon. Tomasko also singled twice and knocked in a run in the Lady Damsels 10-1 win over the B-A girls.
“Moshannon Valley has a very fine team, they deserve a lot of credit,” said Bellwood-Antis coach Alex Sitman. “But I was disappointed with the way we went about hitting the ball today, after all the time we have spent in practice working on hitting. Plus, we had some uncommon errors. We gave Mo Valley too many outs in several innings and they were able to score runs in bunches.”
The defending district champs improved their 2005 mark to 6-0 for third-year head coach Mike Bacher.
The Lady Blue Devils best chance against Tomasko was in the bottom of the fifth, when losing pitcher Kayla Reider walked and Tomasko couldn’t handle a hard smash to the mound by Jen Bilka to put runners at first and second. Reider stole third base to put runners at the corners, but Tomasko got out of the inning without any further damage and the Lady Damsels put the game away at the end of the inning.
Tomasko was the only player on either team with two hits and Valerie Bacher’s double was the only extra-base hit.
Heather Detwiler was the Lady Blue Devils only other baserunner picking up a walk.
“We had a couple hard-hit balls, but they were right at somebody,” said Sitman. “Hopefully Christina Pfahler, who has been out with an injury will get back into the lineup this week. We have had to move some people around and that makes it even tougher than usual for us. What we need is for someone to step it up and get everybody else moving.”
Bellwood-Antis plays at Southern Huntingdon at 4 p.m. on Thursday, and then hosts Altoona on Friday with the first pitch set for 4:30 p.m.
Moshannon Valley 10 Bellwood-Antis 0, 5 inn.
Moshannon Valley – Leskovansky, cf, 4-1-1; Rebar, rf, 0-2-0; A. Tomasko, p, 3-2-2, Hamilton, dp, 2-2-0; Carr, ss, 3-1-0; V. Tomasko, 2-1-0; Bacher, 3b, 1-0-1; Godin, 2b, 3-0-0; Gallo, c, 3-1-0. TOTALS 21-4-10.
Bellwood-Antis – Weyant, cf, 2-0-0; Helsel, dp, 2-0-0; Detwiler, ss, 1-0-0; Burns, c, 2-0-0; Reider, p, 1-0-0; Bilka, 1b, 2-0-0; Myers, 2b, 2-0-0; Rogers, rf, 2-0-0; Riley, 3b, 2-0-0. TOTALS 16-0-0.
Moshannon Valley 301 60 10-4-1.
Bellwood-Antis 000 00 0-0-6.
2b: (MV) Bacher 1.
Multiple hits: (MV) A. Tomasko 2.
RBI: (MV) Leskovansky 2, Bacher 2, A. Tomasko 1, Hamilton 1, Godin 1.
SO: (MV) A. Tomasko 6, (BA) Reider 4.
BB: (MV) A. Tomasko 1, (BA) Reider 11.
WP: A. Tomasko LP: Reider.
