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WILKES-BARRE — Little by little, the Holy Redeemer softball team kept building its lead Monday afternoon.
Two runs here. Then a run here and another and another and another. All building up to the offensive outburst that has been Redeemer’s trademark in recent years.
The outburst came in the sixth as the Royals scored five times to finish off Wyoming Seminary 10-0 in a Wyoming Valley Conference Division 3 game ended due to the 10-run rule.
Sophomore Tiana Wren led the way for the two-time state champions, knocking in four runs including a solo homer to dead center. Redeemer, though, did its major damage in the sixth as Morgan Bienkowski’s double was followed by consecutive triples to right by Allyson Laiuvara and Brittany Hebda.
Hebda scored the 10th run, and ended the game, on a passed ball.
Redeemer (3-0) has now outscored its three divisional opponents 37-0. The victory was the Royals’ 51st consecutive WVC regular-season win. They haven’t lost a WVC game since 2014.
“They’re a softball factory,” Seminary coach Steve Mytych said. “They’ll get girls who will come to their school who are super good. That’s how good programs work. I don’t think we’ll play them in districts, so that’s a positive, but I’m actually happy we have them on our schedule.”
Seminary (1-1) was hoping to make some inroads against the Royals after coming off its first winning season since 2007. The Blue Knights, though, managed one hit — a lined single to right by Melinda Holena to start the fourth inning. She was erased on a fielder’s choice as Seminary couldn’t get a runner to second against Redeemer’s pitching duo of starter Kristen Coffay and reliever Morgan Bienkowski.
Redeemer had some moderate trouble against Seminary freshman pitcher Delaney Romanchick, who was in the Redeemer feeder school system last year. Wren’s two-run single in the first was a blooper just inside the left-field line and just out of reach of Sem left fielder Lauren Fletcher.
The Royals, though, put things together offensively in the sixth as Samantha Rajza’s single was followed by a double from Bienkowski and consecutive triples from Laiuvara and Hebda.
“They never faced (Romanchick) so they had to face her a couple times,” Redeemer coach Jerry Paulukonis said. “Once they saw the pitches here and there, they kind of got a key on it and wait for that one to drive.”
Hazleton Area 10,
Crestwood 0
Aleah Kost and Tiana Treon each doubled and singled as Hazleton Area jumped out early and ended the game after six innings.
Taylor Kaschak added a double for the Cougars. Erika Book had two hits and pitched the shutout.
Mady Heller had two hits and Haley Naperkowski added a double for Crestwood.
Wyoming Area 5,
Berwick 1
Jess Parente knocked in two runs in the fifth and doubled home two more in the sixth as Wyoming Area rallied to defeat Berwick.
Sami Starr homered in the first for Berwick’s only run. Wyoming Area pitcher Gwen Glatz limited Berwick to three hits the rest of the way.
MMI Prep 8,
GAR 4
MMI Prep took advantage of some errors to score six times in the sixth inning to pull away from GAR.
Olivia Minzola pitched five innings for the win and had one of six MMI hits.
McKenzie Malys was 4 for 4 with a double for GAR. Chloe Sromovoski was 2 for 4.
Wyo. Valley West 8,
Coughlin 3
Katlyn Rincavage had a double, single and two RBI as the Spartans defeated Coughlin.
Audrea Welles had a double, single and an RBI for Valley West. Mandy Zawadzki had three hits and an RBI.
Tori Martin, Montana Raggi and Alexa Berecin had a RBI each for Coughlin.
Meyers 11,
Northwest 9
Erin Morris was 4 for 5 with a triple, three RBI and two runs scored as Meyers defeated Northwest.
Meyers trailed 9-1 going into the bottom of the second before scoring eight runs in its half of the inning. Devon Keiper had the big hit, a bases-loaded double, to tie the score. Lexi Bruno picked up the win with five innings of shutout relief.
Trista Babcock had three RBI and Payge Wufsus and Nicole Cragle added two RBI each.
Hanover Area 8,
Lake-Lehman 7
Alessia Mangan, Tiffany Eustice and Karly Bennett had two hits each and Sarah Tuzinksi struck out 10 as Hanover Area edged Lake-Lehman.
Chloe VanGorder had a three-run homer for Lehman in the fifth inning. The Black Knights pulled within one run on Cassie Konopki’s grand slam in the seventh.
Redeemer 10, Wyo. Seminary 0
Seminary`AB`R`H`BI
Holena ss`3`0`1`0
Mytych cf`2`0`0`0
Carr rf`2`0`0`0
Romnchk p`2`0`0`0
Kehl 1b`2`0`0`0
Corcoran c`2`0`0`0
Iskra 2b`2`0`0`0
Dunn 3b`2`0`0`0
Fletcher lf`2`0`0`0
Totals`19`0`1`0
Redeemer`AB`R`H`BI
Bienkwski ss`3`2`1`1
Laiuvara rf`4`1`1`1
Hebda 3b`4`3`3`0
Wren cf`3`1`2`4
Shorts c`2`0`0`0
Coffay p`3`2`1`0
Armstrng 1b`2`0`1`1
Kuhar 2b`2`0`1`0
Mullery 2b`1`0`0`0
Rajza lf`2`1`1`0
Totals`26`10`11`7
Seminary`000`000`—`0
Redeemer`291`115`—`10
2B — Bienkowski, Coffay, Armstrong. 3B — Laiuvara, Hebda 2. HR — Wren.
Seminary`IP`H`R`ER`BB`SO
Romanchick (L)`5.2`11`10`5`1`4
Redeemer`IP`H`R`ER`BB`SO
Coffay (W)`4.0`1`0`0`0`3
Bienkowski`2.0`0`0`0`0`4
MMI Prep 8, GAR 4
MMI`020`006`0`—`8
GAR`100`001`2`—`4
Pitching: MMI, Olivia Minzola (WP) 5 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO; Gabriella Kupcho 2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 2 SO; GAR, Mackenzie Malys (LP) 7 IP, 6 H, 8 R, 2 ER, 6 BB, 7 SO.
Top hitters: GAR, Malys 3-4, double; Chloe Sromovski 2-4.
Hazleton Area 10, Crestwood 0 (5 inn.)
Hazleton Area`600`22`—`10
Crestwood`000`00`—`0
Pitching: HA, Erika Book (W) 5 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO; CRE, Haley Naperkowski (LP) 5 IP, 10 H, 10 R, 10 ER, 6 BB, 1 SO.
Top hitters: HA, Book 2 hits; Tiana Treon single, double; Aleah Kost single, double; Taylor Kaschak double; CRE, Mady Heller 2 hits; Naperowski double; Kayla Kulp single; Katie Thomas single.
Wyo. Val. West 8, Coughlin 3
Coughlin`101`100`1`—`3
Wyo. Val. West`301`220`x`—`8
Pitching: COU, Brittany Nastawa (LP) 6 IP, 12 H, 8 R, 7 ER, 3 BB, 3 SO; WVW, Morgan Shedletsky (WP) 7 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO.
Top Hitters: COU, Montana Raggi 2 hits, RBI; Tori Martin double, single, RBI; Alexa Berecin single, RBI. WVW, Mandi Zawadzki three hits, RBI; Morgan Klosko RBI; Audrea Welles double, single, RBI; Katlyn Rincavage single, double, 2 RBI; Erin Gibbons single, RBI; Andi Blaski two singles, RBI.
Wyoming Area 5, Berwick 1
Berwick`100`000`0`-1
Wyoming Area`000`023`x`—`5
Pitching: BER, Kyle Levan (LP) 6 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 5 SO; WA, Gwen Glatz (WP) 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 SO.
Top Hitters: BER, Sami Starr home run; Mallory Pinterich double; WA, Jess Parente 2-4, double, 4 RBI; Julia Kopetchny double; Nichole Selinskie 2-3, double; Annie Karcutskie 2-3.
Meyers 11, Northwest 9
Northwest`360`000`0`—`9
Meyers`180`020`x—`11
Pitching: NWT, Nicole Cragle 1.2 IP, 9 H, 9 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO; Brooke Harvey (LP) 4.1 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 6 SO. MEY, Abbi Satoff 2 IP, 8 H, 9 R, 9 ER, 2 BB, 0 SO; Alexis Bruno (WP) 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 7 SO.
Top Hitters: NWT, Harvey triple, two runs; Trista Babcock 2-4, double, 2 RBI; Cragle 2-4, double, 2 runs, RBI; Payge Wufsus 2-4, double, two runs, 2 RBI. MEY, Erin Morris 4-5, 2 triples, 3 runs, 3 RBI; Satoff 2-4, double, 2 RBI; Alexis Bruno 2-4, triple, RBI Devon Keiper double, 3 RBI.
Hanover Area 8, Tunkhannock 7
Lake-Lehman`000`030`4`—`7
Hanover Area`211`400`x`—`8
Pitching: LL, Abby Hogan (LP) 6 IP, 9 H, 8 R, 1 BB, 4 SO; HAN, Sarah Tuzinski (WP) 7 IP, 3 H, 7 R, 2 BB, 10 SO.
Top Hitters: LL, Chloe VanGorder home run, 3 RBI; Cassie Konopki grand slam, 4 RBI; HA, Alessia Mangan 2-3, double, triple; Tiffany Eustice 2-3, double; Karly Bennett 2-3, double; Tuzinski triple.
