Expand<\/a><\/p>\nOlivia Scarnato scattered six hits and struck out to 12 to get the win as Old Forge defeated North Pocono\/Jefferson, 12-7, in the District 17 Minor Softball championship game Thursday.<\/p>\n
Adeline Renzi and Kali Notari each had two hits, and Sydney Kishel and Kendyll Carver each scored two runs for Old Forge.<\/p>\n
Carmela Bilotta, Molly Tucky and Lucy Loringer each had a hit and an RBI for North Pocono\/Jefferson. Victoria Polak scored two runs and Leona Nealon had two RBIs.<\/p>\n
District 32 Minor Baseball<\/p>\n
Evan Merrifield and Cayson Lukowski combined on a no-hitter with 12 strikeouts as Mid Valley clinched a spot in the elimination round of the District 32 Minor Baseball tournament with a 10-0 win over host Carbondale in five innings Thursday.<\/p>\n
Merrifield got the win, going the first three innings and striking out eight. He helped his own cause by slugging a pair of triples, scoring three runs and knocking in two.<\/p>\n
Eddie Marushock had two hits and two runs and JC Cruise had two hits for Mid Valley.<\/p>\n
Garrett Cassidy walked twice for Carbondale.<\/p>\n
Carbino Club\/Archbald 10, North Scranton 0 (4 inn.): At Carbondale, Noah Krabek scattered two hits and struck out nine in 3.1 innings to notch the win and help Carbino Club\/Archbald advance to the elimination round Thursday.<\/p>\n
Cody Borusiewicz\u00a0 led the offense with two hits, two RBIs and two runs while Bailey Vitali and Krabek each doubled.<\/p>\n
Zachary Mackaliunas and Jackson Powell had the hits for North Scranton.<\/p>\n
Western Wayne 9, Wayne Highlands 8 (7 inn.): At Fleetville, Linden Harrison picked up the win for Western Wayne and helped himself with a single and scored a run, and Waylon Shelp added an RBI single.<\/p>\n
Wayne Highlands was paced by two hits from David Hartung and RBI singles from Nicky Gianetti and Adrian Mustafaj.<\/p>\n
Wallenpaupack 14, Christy Mathewson 6: At Fleetville, Anthony Polombo pitched three strong innings, picking up the win for Wallenpaupack and was three for three at the plate. He was backed with an RBI double from Jayden Joseph and singles from Evan Hornung, Christian Levins and TJ Tigue.<\/p>\n
Christy Mathewson got two hits from Caiden Crambo and singles from Cortland Pencek, Aaron Pagnotti and Grant Ryon.<\/p>\n
District 17 Minor Baseball<\/p>\n
Winning pitcher Chris Coar had two hits and an RBI to help lead North Pocono past Dingman Delaware, 15-3, in a District 17 Minor Baseball game Thursday at Dunmore.<\/p>\n
Grayson Torres had two hits, two RBIs and two runs, Landon Gephardt had two hits, including a double and scored three runs, Nate Bowers had a hit and three RBIs and Jake Stewart doubled for the winners.<\/p>\n
Mason Maher doubled for Dingman Delaware.<\/p>\n
Results from the District 17 Minor Baseball games between Old Forge and Abington Heights, West Scranton and Jefferson Twp., and Dunmore vs. Moosic were not reported to the newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old Forge\u2019s Carsen Clauss-Walton (14) heads home against Abington at the West Scranton Little League Field in Scranton,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-235053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235053","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=235053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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