The Tyrone girls softball team played probably their best game of the year against Huntingdon on Friday, at the Hilltop diamond in the Harry K. Sickler Athletic Complex. The two teams played even softball for all but the top of the sixth inning, when the Lady Bearcats scored four times for a 9-6 win.
\n\u201cThis was the best we have played all year,\u201d said Tyrone softball coach Lois Loncher. \u201cIt is the most runs and hits that we have had in a game. Defensively our bunt coverage was good. We put down several bunts to move runners into scoring position and then got hits to bring them in.\u201d
\nTyrone had six runs and 10 hits, both season highs, led by Ashley Pennabaker and Lindsay Christine who each banged out three hits for the Lady Eagles, who never gave in, even coming back in the bottom of the seventh to score a pair of runs that sliced the Huntingdon girls advantage to 9-6, but just couldn\u2019t manage to get any closer.
\nTyrone pitcher Brooke Garbinsky limited Huntingdon (3-12 overall, 1-9 in the division) to six hits, fanned four and walked five. The Lady Bearcats first six batters had one hit each.
\nWinning pitcher Brittany McNeal had a triple and two RBI, and teammate Ashley Kifer doubled and drove in three runs.
\nKifer slammed a two-bagger in the first inning to drive in a pair of runners as the Lady \u2018Cats opened a 3-1 lead after one inning.
\nTyrone tied the score in the fifth, when Lindsay Christine singled in Kim Cherry. Huntingdon went ahead to stay in the sixth, when McNeal unloaded a two-run triple.
\nAshley Pennabaker doubled home one seventh-inning tally and a pair of groundouts, scored the second.
\nMcNeal struck out four and didn\u2019t walk a batter.
\nTyrone will travel to Huntingdon for the rematch on Tuesday, with the first pitch set for 4:30 p.m.
\nHuntingdon 9 Tyrone 6
\nHuntingdon – Young, 2b, 4-3-1; Keating, cf, 5-1-1; McNeal, p, 3-2-1; Malick, ss, 4-1-1; Kifer, 1b, 3-2-1; Everhart\t, 3b, \t5-0\t-1; Montgomary, lf, 3-0-0; McConaghey, c, 3-0-0; Campbell, rf\t, 2-0-0. TOTALS 32-9-6.
\nTyrone – Pennabaker, cf, 4-3-3; Cherry, c, 3-2-1; Turiano, ss, 3-0-0; Christine, 1b, 4-1-3; Kobuck, lf, 4-1-1; Glashauser, \trf, 3\t-0-0; Garbinsky, p, 3-0-1; Shultz, dp\t, 3-0-1; Miller, 2b, 3-0-0. TOTALS 30-6-10.
\nHuntingdon \t301 004 1 9- 6-2.
\nTyrone 100 210 2 6-10-3.
\n2B: (H) Kifer 1, (T) Pennabaker 1, Christine 1.
\n3B: (H) McNeal 1.
\nMultiple Hits: (T) Pennabaker 3, Christine 3.
\nRBI: (H) Kifer 3, McNeal 2, Keating 1, Everhart 1, (T) Christine 2, Kobuck 1, Shultz 1.
\nSO: (H) McNeal 4, (T) Garbinsky 4.
\nBB: (H) McNeal 0, (T) Garbinsky 5.
\nWP: McNeal LP: Garbinsky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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