5-9 SOFTBALL ROUNDUP: Clarion Muscles Past A-C Valley; McMillen Homers Twice for Karns City

PARKER, Pa. (EYT/D9) – Jordan Best and Kylee Beers each homered as the Clarion softball team pulled away for an 11-5 win over A-C Valley Monday afternoon.

(Kylee Beers, left, and Jordan Best/photo by Theresa Forrest)

Best hit a solo shot in the top of the second inning to put the Bobcats up 4-1. Beers hit a two-run blast in the fifth to stake Clarion to a 6-2 lead.

Best, who also doubled, was 3-for-4 on the day with two runs scored and three RBI.

Beers, back in the lineup after missing more than a week, also drove in three.

Noel Anthony also had a pair of hits for Clarion (7-6).

Payton Simko picked up the win, striking out 14 in seven innings.

Avah Burke was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI for A-C Valley.

Maddie Hurrelbrink also had two hits for the Falcons.

KARNS CITY 7, REDBANK VALLEY 1 – Rossi McMillen hit a pair of home runs and drove in four for the Gremlins.

The senior hit her first home run in the top of the second inning for a 2-0 lead. Her second blast came in the top of the seventh, a two-run shot.

Ashley Fox also went deep for Karns City (12-1), which has won 12 straight.

Fox was 2-for-5. Zoe King, Marra Patton and Ally Walker also each had two hits for the Gremlins.

Patton got the win in the circle, striking out 10 and not walking a batter in seven innings.

LeighAnn Hetrick had two hits for Redbank Valley and Mackenzie Foringer doubled.

Foringer got the loss, striking out three in seven innings.

FOREST 20, SMETHPORT 0 – Alexis Oswald went 3-for-4 with six RBIs and four runs scored to lead a 14-hit Fires’ attack.

Emily Aites had a pair of hits and drove in five, Maggie Boehme went 4-for-4 with two doubles and three RBI, and Madison McFarland tripled, singled and scored four runs and had three RBIs for Forest (7-2).

Emma McFarland also scored three times for the Fires.

KEYSTONE 15, UNION 0 – Natalie Bowser went 3-for-3 with a double and Sydney Bell had a double, single and scored three runs in the Panthers’ rout.

Bowser picked up the win, striking out four in two innings for Keystone (7-4).

Emerson Stevens had two hits for Union (0-8).