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04\/10\/26 @ Abington Heights104\/08\/26 vs North Pocono704\/02\/26 vs Wyoming Valley West1003\/31\/26 @ Delaware Valley1103\/25\/26 @ Hazleton Area13+ 2 more games<\/a><\/p>\n West Scranton<\/a> hasn’t had much luck against Mid Valley<\/a> recently, but that could start to change on Saturday. The Invaders will take on the Spartans at 1:00 p.m. West Scranton is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they’ve averaged 7.6 runs per game this season.<\/p>\n West Scranton came up short against Abington Heights on Friday, falling 8-1. The contest marked the Invaders’ lowest-scoring matchup so far this season.<\/p>\n West Scranton saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Laney Mackie<\/a>, who went 1-for-2 with one RBI.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Mid Valley waltzed into their game on Friday with seven straight wins… but they left with eight. They blew past the Chiefs 15-8. The result was nothing new for the Spartans, who have now won six matchups by six runs or more so far this season.<\/p>\n Ava Hazelton<\/a> was a major factor while hitting and pitching. On the mound, she struck out 11 batters over 5.2 innings while giving up just two earned runs off six hits. She has been nothing but reliable: she hasn’t tossed less than five strikeouts any time she’s pitched this season. She was also stellar in the batter’s box, going 2-for-4 with three RBI, one triple, and one run. That triple marked the first that she has hit this season.<\/p>\n In other batting news, Angela Laskowski<\/a> and Avery Tinney<\/a> did most of the damage at the plate: Laskowski went 4-for-5 with three RBI, two runs, and two doubles, while Tinney went 2-for-3 with three RBI, one triple, and one run. That’s the most RBI Tinney has posted since back in March of 2025. Abbey Mackey<\/a> was another key player, going 3-for-5 with two runs.<\/p>\n Mid Valley kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 19 hits. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they’ve now got at least nine hits in seven consecutive contests.<\/p>\n West Scranton’s defeat dropped their record down to 4-3. As for Mid Valley, their record is now 8-1.<\/p>\n Fans could be in store for some top-tier slugging on Saturday. West Scranton hasn’t had any problems when it comes to power this season, having averaged 0.7 home runs per game. However, it’s not like Mid Valley struggles in that department as they’ve been averaging an even more impressive 1.1 home runs. With so much power on both teams, it’ll be down to the pitchers to keep the mound locked down.<\/p>\n West Scranton couldn’t quite get it done against Mid Valley in their previous matchup back in March of 2025 as they fell 5-0. Can the Invaders avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We’ll find out soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Invaders 04\/10\/26 @ Abington Heights104\/08\/26 vs North Pocono704\/02\/26 vs Wyoming Valley West1003\/31\/26 @ Delaware Valley1103\/25\/26 @ Hazleton Area13+…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-163696","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\/163696","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=163696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}