{"id":197682,"date":"2026-05-20T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:27:12","slug":"d2-softball-ancheranis-three-inning-perfect-game-three-hits-propel-dunmore-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197682\/","title":{"rendered":"D2 SOFTBALL: Ancherani\u2019s three-inning perfect game, three hits propel Dunmore \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paige Ancherani pitched a three-inning perfect game with eight strikeouts and went 3 for 3 with a double and one RBI to lead No. 2 Dunmore to a 15-0 win over No. 7 Mountain View in the District 2 Class 2A softball quarterfinals Tuesday at Dunmore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ancherani also pitched a five-inning perfect game with nine strikeouts against Mountain View on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Lady Bucks (15-6) will host No. 3 Holy Redeemer, a 7-1 winner over Lackawanna Trail, in the semifinals Friday at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Ava Walsh went 3 for 3 with two RBIs and two runs, Peyton Ancherani went 2 for 2 with an RBI and two runs, Aubrey Mizenko had a hit, three RBIs and two runs and Emily McGowan had a double and three RBIs for Dunmore.<\/p>\n

Elk Lake 13, Blue Ridge 2 (5 inn.): At Elk Lake, Celeste Clark had a home run, a double, four RBIs and two runs to lead the No. 4 seed Lady Warriors to a win over No. 5 Blue Ridge in five innings in the Class 2A quarterfinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elk Lake (14-7) will visit No. 1 seed Montrose in the semifinals Thursday at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Brynn Warriner had two hits, two RBIs and three runs, Lydia Howell had two hits, including a double, and a run and winning pitcher Nami Patton had a triple and an RBI for the winners.<\/p>\n

Kaylee Blewett and Peyton Rutter each had two hits for the Lady Raiders (7-13).<\/p>\n

Holy Redeemer 7, Lackawanna Trail 1: At Casey Park, Holy Redeemer scored five runs in the first inning as the No. 3 Royals defeated No. 6 Lackawanna Trail in the Class 2A quarterfinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Holy Redeemer will travel to No. 2 Dunmore in Thursday\u2019s semifinals.<\/p>\n

Katie Genovese led the way for the Royals, going 3 for 4 with a double and an RBI. Covington Lehman had two hits and an RBI, and Bella Boylan had two doubles. Hailey Pius also added a double.<\/p>\n

Ava Thomas picked up the win, striking out four in five innings of scoreless work. Zoe Pecuch pitched the final two innings, allowing one hit.<\/p>\n

Kacie Antolick had two of the Lions\u2019 hits. Trail scored its lone run in the seventh on an infield error on Shelby Malamud\u2019s roller.<\/p>\n

Class 5A<\/p>\n

Trailing by two runs in the bottom of the third, Crestwood scored six runs and added seven in the fifth, as the Comets advanced to the District 2-4 Class 5A subregional semifinals with a 15-7 win over visiting Delaware Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The No. 4 seed Comets will face off with top seed Abington Heights in the semifinals Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Abington Heights.<\/p>\n

Crestwood had 14 hits as Emmersyn Seltzer was 3 for 5 with three RBIs and a triple. Brooke Lenahan also drove in three runs, while Emilie Stofko, Alexa Toniatti, Brianna Petzold and Araceli Martinez each had two hits.<\/p>\n

Lenahan was the winning pitcher, throwing all seven innings with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Isabella Stahlman and Hailey Westridge each had two RBIs in the setback.<\/p>\n

No. 3 Pittston Area, a 10-0 winner over Shikellamy in five innings Tuesday<\/a>, will visit No. 2 North Pocono on Thursday at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

Class 6A<\/p>\n

At Scranton, Wilkes-Barre Area rallied from an early five-run to beat the Lady Knights in eight innings in the District 2-4 Class 6A Subregional first round.<\/p>\n

Rhylee Bell was 5 for 5 with two triples for No. 4 seed Scranton, which held a 6-1 lead in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n

But the No. 5 Wolfpack fought back and tied the game in the top of the seventh, 7-7, on a single by Hope Burke and a triple by Casey George. Then in the top of the eighth, Wilkes-Barre scored four times, highlighted by a two-run double by Jordan Prushinski and RBI triple by Kayce Martin.<\/p>\n

Prushinski, Madalyn McGuinness and Grace Simko each had three hits for Wilkes-Barre Area, which advances to Thursday\u2019s semifinal at top-seeded Williamsport. Aubrey Weitz added two hits.<\/p>\n

Besides Bell, Scranton got multiple hits from Sophia Leonori, Ava Angelo, Anna Pica, Addison Angelo and Izzy Kaub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Ancherani pitched a three-inning perfect game with eight strikeouts and went 3 for 3 with a double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-197682","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\/197682","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=197682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}