{"id":158142,"date":"2026-04-06T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158142\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:08:15","slug":"west-scranton-invaders-vs-north-pocono-trojans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158142\/","title":{"rendered":"West Scranton Invaders vs. North Pocono Trojans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The West Scranton Invaders<\/a> will take on the North Pocono Trojans<\/a> at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. West Scranton knows how to get runs on the board — the team has finished with ten runs or more in their past three contests — so hopefully North Pocono likes a good challenge.<\/p>\n

West Scranton’s pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. They put the hurt on Wyoming Valley West with a sharp 10-0 win. While the Invaders didn’t have the best season last year (they finished 8-14), it’s starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

Not much got past Kaleiah Connor<\/a>, who gave up just two hits and racked up seven Ks to keep Wyoming Valley West off the board. Connor has been consistent recently: she hasn’t tossed less than six strikeouts in three consecutive appearances.<\/p>\n

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Mckenna Brudnicki<\/p>\n

04\/02\/26 vs Wyoming Valley West503\/31\/26 @ Delaware Valley205\/07\/25 @ Scranton Prep203\/25\/26 @ Hazleton Area103\/13\/26 @ Wilkes-Barre1<\/p>\n

At the plate, Mckenna Brudnicki<\/a> was incredible, going a perfect 3-for-3 with one home run and five RBI. Those five RBI gave her a new career-high. Julia Farkaly<\/a> was another key player, going a perfect 3-for-3 with one run and one RBI.<\/p>\n

West Scranton was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .519. That was just more of the same: they’ve now posted a batting average of .333 or higher every time they’ve taken the field this season.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, after soaring to 18 runs the game before, North Pocono was a bit more limited in their matchup on Saturday. They came up short against Pennsbury, falling 7-1. The contest marked the Trojans’ lowest-scoring game so far this season.<\/p>\n

North Pocono saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Avarie Roscioli<\/a>, who went 2-for-3 with one run and one double.<\/p>\n

North Pocono’s defeat ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 4-2. As for West Scranton, their victory bumped their record up to 4-1.<\/p>\n

The batters for both teams will have to hit smart on Tuesday as both have some strikeout artists on the roster. West Scranton has been retiring batters left and right this season, having averaged 7.6 strikeouts per game. However, it’s not like North Pocono struggles in that department as they’ve been averaging 8 strikeouts. Considering how easily both teams rack up Ks, the hitters on both teams better bring their A-game into this one.<\/p>\n

West Scranton might still be hurting after the 10-0 loss they got from North Pocono in their previous meeting back in April of 2025. Will the Invaders have more luck at home instead of on the road? Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other softball content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West Scranton Invaders will take on the North Pocono Trojans at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. West Scranton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-158142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158142","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=158142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}