High school roundup: One inning knocks Bentworth from undefeated ranks
High school roundup
One inning.
One bad inning. That’s what knocked Bentworth from the ranks of the undefeated in girls softball.
Julia Resnik hit two home runs and visiting Elizabeth Forward scored six runs in the fourth inning en route to a 7-4 victory over Bentworth on Friday in a battle of top teams from different classifications.
It was the first loss of the season for Bentworth (16-1), a Class 2A section champion. Elizabeth Forward (15-1) has won a Class 4A section title.
Resnik hit a solo home run two batters into the game, but Bentworth’s Sydney Gonglik answered with a homer to start the bottom of the first inning.
It stayed 1-1 until the fourth, when EF scored six runs after having two outs and nobody on base. Four singles and a walk gave EF a 4-1 lead and Resnick hit her second homer, a three-run shot to center field.
Bentworth scored two runs in the fifth on a two-run single by Makayla Gonglik.
The Bearcats drew to within 7-4 in the bottom of the seventh when Makayla Gonglik led off with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Nora Lindley.
Sydney Gonglik struck out 12 and walked two.
Baseball
Trinity 11, Waynesburg 1: Luke Poland fired a one-hitter over five innings, Jonah Williamson homered and Aaron Harshman doubled and tripled as Trinity defeated Waynesburg 11-1 in a nonsection game.
Trinity (8-10) took control early by pushing across nine runs in the first two innings.
Poland allowed only a double by Waynesburg’s Kory Taylor. Poland walked three and struck out seven.
Trinity had six of its 12 hits go for extra bases. Derek Falco and Owen Samogala both tripled, and Karson Hathaway had a double.
Jefferson-Morgan 10, Beth-Center 2: John Woodward hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the fifth inning and Jefferson-Morgan added six runs in the sixth as the Rockets defeated visiting Beth-Center 10-2 in a nonsection game.
Four Jefferson-Morgan pitchers combined on a three-hitter with nine strikeouts. They did issue 10 walks, but Beth-Center (1-14) couldn’t get the key hit to produce a big inning.
Woodward’s hit in the fifth gave J-M (11-7) a 4-2 lead and added another two-run single in the Rockets’ big sixth inning.
Evan Kniha and Jaymison Robin both doubled. Kniah’s was a bases-loaded two-bagger that drove in three runs and capped the scoring for J-M.