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LEHMAN TWP. — It’s been just a few weeks since PIAA champion Valley View ended Tunkhannock’s season within the District 2 Class 4A championship.
However for Erin Van Ness, her season by no means actually stopped because the Tunkhannock slugger hopped proper into travel-ball season the place she continues to construct momentum towards her faculty profession at Lock Haven College.
On Tuesday night time, she confirmed she’s nonetheless in prime type.
The Wyoming Valley Convention Division 1 Participant of the Yr went 3 for five and scored twice to elevate the West squad to a 7-5 win within the forty fifth annual Robert L. Dolbear Senior Women All-Star Recreation sponsored by the Dallas Kiwanis Membership.
Van Ness earned the West’s Most Helpful Participant, whereas Pittston Space’s Marina Antal earned East MVP.
The West, coached by Tunkhannock’s Bob Hegedty and Ron Hampsey and Wyoming Space’s Dean Carey, consisted of gamers from Lake-Lehman, Hazleton Space, Tunkhannock and Wyoming Space. The East, coached by Valley West’s Jessica Ras and Pittston Space’s Anthony Bellino, have been comprised of athletes from Holy Redeemer, Nanticoke Space, Pittston Space and Wilkes-Barre Space.
“I’ve been enjoying journey ball about each single weekend. It by no means actually ends,” Van Ness laughed. “I’m so excited to start out my subsequent chapter at Lock Haven. I’m so excited to hitch them within the fall.”
The sweltering night time at Lake-Lehman’s turf area began off with a commerce to even out either side at eight as Wyoming Space’s Rebecca Gula moved from the West to East earlier than the primary pitch to offer both sides two outfielders.
It led off with Van Ness doing what she did all 12 months with the Tigers as the college’s chief in hits and RBIs drilled a double within the backside of the primary, and scored two batters afterward Kaia Brown’s run-scoring single.
Van Ness, who hit .526 with 40 hits and 37 RBIs, additionally scored as a part of a two-run fifth to offer the West a cushion, as she took two bases on a throwing error and crossed residence on one other errant throw.
The Tunkhannock senior had three hits within the opening three innings, and scored within the first and fifth.
“It was a lot enjoyable as a result of I performed with all of those ladies for my entire high-school profession. It was enjoyable to lastly play on the identical staff with them,” Van Ness stated.
The West jumped out to a 3-0 lead earlier than the East’s bats got here to life.
Pittston Space’s Gabby Gorzkowski was hit with a pitch, and Nanticoke Space’s Cecily Johnson drew a stroll to start out the fourth as back-to-back run-scoring hits by Antal and Holy Redeemer’s Abby Williams trimmed the deficit to 1 run earlier than Gula knotted it with a run-scoring grounder to second.
“It was enjoyable. For me, it was like one ultimate time representing Pittston Space,” stated Antal, who will be part of former teammate Tori Para at Marywood College within the fall. “I got here in with the mindset that I wished to have enjoyable. Clearly, I wished to win, however that’s all proper.”
It was a Wyoming Space connection that pushed the game-winning run throughout the plate within the backside of the fourth as Arianna Gaylord ripped a triple to an open spot in proper area, and scored on Marissa Giardina’s groundout.
The East tried to eat right into a 6-3 deficit with a two-run sixth on RBIs by Johnson and Gula, however Gaylord threw robust in reduction to earn the save, retiring the facet with the intention to finish the sport.
Tunkhannock’s McKenzie Hannon picked up the win, permitting simply three hits and hanging out 5 in 5 innings of labor as Van Ness had three of the West’s eight hits. Gaylord and Hazleton Space’s Elia Tito every added two hits within the win.
For the East, Antal completed with two of the staff’s seven hits, whereas Williams had the lone extra-base hit along with her fourth-inning double.
“It was enjoyable as a result of a few of these ladies, at present was the primary time that I met them,” Antal stated. “I by no means performed in opposition to Nanticoke whereas at Pittston, so it was neat to play with a few of their gamers. It was an incredible combine of ladies on our staff.”
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