2-1 Valley View (23-3) vs. 7-2 Blackhawk (15-5)<\/p>\n
When: Friday, 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Where: Nittany Lion Softball Park and Beard Field, Penn State University<\/p>\n
Admission: Tickets can be purchased online through Hometown Ticketing. Visit piaa.org, click on the link and find the game you\u2019d like to attend. Tickets can also be purchased at the gate for $10.<\/p>\n
How they got here: District 2 champion Valley View defeated Northern Lebanon in the first round, 5-0, Archbishop Carroll in the quarterfinals, 2-0, and Pope John Paul II in the semifinals, 8-0. District 7 runner-up Blackhawk beat Punxsutawney in the first round, 12-7, Bonner-Prendie in the quarterfinals, 2-0, and Harbor Creek in the semifinals, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Breakdown: Valley View rides an 11-game winning streak into the final and has nine consecutive shutouts. It has not allowed a run since the bottom of the fifth inning May 5 against Scranton Prep \u2014 a span of 59 innings. \u2026 Abbi Call is a big reason why. The Clemson University-bound senior took a perfect game into the seventh inning in the quarterfinals and settled for a one-hitter with 14 strikeouts. Call is 16-2 with a 2.02 ERA and 160 strikeouts. Offensively, she is batting .645 (40 for 62) with six doubles, 10 home runs, 26 runs and 36 RBIs. \u2026 Bryant commit Zoie Krupovich is batting .410 (34 for 83) with five doubles, four home runs, 26 runs and 24 RBIs. \u2026 Le Moyne commit Ella Swingle is batting .341 (28 for 82) with three doubles, four triples, one home run, 32 runs and 17 RBIs. \u2026 Sophomore Ashlan Palickar is batting .359 (28 for 78) with six doubles, one triple, two home runs, 20 runs and 20 RBIs. \u2026 Valley View, making its 15th PIAA appearance (23-11), won three state titles \u2014 Class 2A in 2000, Class 3A in 2013 and Class 4A last season. It also was Class 3A runner-up in 2012. \u2026 Blackhawk is making just its second PIAA appearance (4-1). Its first came last year. \u2026 In the District 7 final, Blackhawk had a 3-0 lead, but lost to Elizabeth Forward, 5-3. It has bounced back with three wins in the state playoffs. \u2026 Blackhawk\u2019s five losses are by a total of nine runs. \u2026 Junior Eva Parris is batting .456 (31 for 68) with 10 doubles, one home run, 25 runs and 20 RBIs. \u2026 Senior outfielder Addy Ramer is batting .365 (27 for 74) with four doubles, one triple, four home runs, 29 RBIs and 25 runs. \u2026 Senior pitcher Kylie Prisuta has struck out 149 in 104.1 innings. She is batting .361 (22 for 61) with seven doubles, two home runs and 21 RBIs. \u2026 In the semifinal win over Harbor Creek, Prisuta hit a three-run home run and struck out nine. \u2026 Junior shortstop Brynn Hysong is batting .507 (37 for 73) with 26 runs, eight doubles and 22 RBIs. \u2026 Both teams are nicknamed the Cougars.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Scott Walsh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2-1 Valley View (23-3) vs. 7-2 Blackhawk (15-5) When: Friday, 1:30 p.m. Where: Nittany Lion Softball Park and…\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-216784","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\/216784","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=216784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216784\/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=216784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}