{"id":156960,"date":"2026-04-04T05:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:25:15","slug":"hricenak-sparks-mid-valley-past-old-forge-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156960\/","title":{"rendered":"Hricenak sparks Mid Valley past Old Forge \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Hricenak had two hits and drove in five runs Thursday as <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.the570.com\/Mid_Valley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mid Valley defeated Old Forge<\/a>, 9-5, in a Lackawanna League Division II softball game.<\/p>\n<p>Hricenak drove in Avery Tinney with the game\u2019s first run with a double in the bottom of the second inning. Then, with Mid Valley leading, 4-3, in the bottom of the fifth, she cracked a grand slam\u00a0to break open the game.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Laskowski led the Spartanettes with three hits. Marley Morano added two hits and two RBIs and Avery Tinney had two hits and one RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Juliette DeStefano had two hits and two RBIs for Old Forge. Kate O\u2019Hearn doubled twice and had one RBI. Ariana Davitt chipped in two hits and Addison Rafalko contributed two RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Valley View 16, Easton 2: At Valley View, <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.the570.com\/Valley_View\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Cougars rebounded for their loss Tuesday to Abington Heights by hammering out 18 hits<\/a>, including three home runs, in a nonleague win in 4\u00bd innings.<\/p>\n<p>Abbi Call had a three-run home run in the bottom of the first inning. Maggie Hallett added a solo home run in the bottom of the second and Cora Castellani homered leading off the bottom of the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Castellani, Ella Swingle, Zoie Krupovich and Ashlan Palickar each had three hits for Valley View. Call and Hallett finished with two hits apiece. Call had four RBIs and Castellani two.<\/p>\n<p>West Scranton 10, Wyoming Valley West 0 (6 inn): At Scranton, McKenna Brudnicki hit a two-run home run and drove in five as <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.the570.com\/West_Scranton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Lady Invaders picked up a nonleague win<\/a> at the University of Scranton\u2019s Magis Field.<\/p>\n<p>West had 14 hits with Brudnicki and Julia Farkaly each collecting three hits. Lauren Turnavitch and Sophia Deluca ended with two hits apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Kaleiah Connor picked up the win, tossing a two-hitter with seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Reese McGlynn and Ella Frazier had the two Lady Spartans hits.<\/p>\n<p>Wallenpaupack 20, Pocono Mountain East 3: At Pocono Mountain East, Reagan Anderson had three hits and four RBIs as <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.the570.com\/Wallenpaupack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wallenpaupack romped to a nonleague victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lily Mancino and Adrianna Milutinovic each added three RBIs for the Lady Buckhorns, who scored nine runs in the top of the first inning. Wallenpaupack also benefitted from 20 walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natalie Hricenak had two hits and drove in five runs Thursday as Mid Valley defeated Old Forge, 9-5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-156960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}