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Baseball: Burgettstown no-hits Mapletown

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Dylan Dhans and Brandon Sell combined on a five-inning no-hitter in Burgettstown’s 11-0 vicotry over Mapletown in a non-section game Friday.

Cole LaRocka hit two triples for the Blue Devils (1-1, 3-2) and Shane Transue had two doubles and drove in three.

Mapletown fell to 0-2 and 0-2.

• Bentworth scored two unearned runs, one to tie the game in the seventh and one to win the game in the eighth, 6-5 against Jefferson-Morgan in a nonsection game.

J-M (0-3) led 5-0 through 6 1/2 innings, thanks in part to Austin Clark’s solo home run and Josh Bissett’s double.

Dylan Davis walked four batter in the seventh and each came around to score. The fifth run, scored by Robbie Schultz, came on a throwing error. Bentworth (2-0) won it on a dropped fly that allowed Taylor Bunner to score.

• Steve Yuran had a perfect game through five innings to help Peters Township take a 10-1 victory from University High School in Morgantown, W.Va., in the Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Yuran struck out four and did not walk a batter. in five-plus innings.

Frank Jezioro went 2-for-3 with four RBI for the Indians (1-2).

• Dean Hodgdon hit a three-run triple in Avella’s six-run third inning, and relief pitcher Walt Kopko worked out of a seventh-inning jam, as the Eagles won their season opener, 6-4, over host Waynesburg in a non-section game.

Winning pitcher Santino Paris pitched 5 1/3 innings and left with a 6-1 lead. Three of Avella’s four hits in the game came in the six-run third inning.

Hunter Robinson hit a double for the second consecutive day for Waynesburg (1-1). The Raiders trailed 6-2 entering the bottom of the seventh. After scoring two runs to cut the deficit in half, Waynesburg had runners on second and third when Kopko got the game’s final out on a strikeout.

• Belle Vernon broke a tie game with a three-run fourth inning and went on to defeat visiting Keystone Oaks 8-6 in a non-section game.

The Leopards (2-0) broke a 4-4 by scoring in the fourth on a bases-loaded walk, a wild pitch and an RBI-single by Nike Tasser.

Winning pitcher Cody Menges allowed two hits and struck out nine over 4 1/3 innings.

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