BROCKWAY — With a shot at playing yet another postseason game, the Brookville Lady Raiders softball team had its season ended on Memorial Day with a 13-3 loss at Brockway.

The five-inning game stopped by the 10-Run Rule was played as part of a “True Second” format that gave the consolation game winner a chance to finish second if the finals loser didn’t beat them in the semifinals.

That part worked out for the Lady Raiders as Cranberry blanked Redbank Valley, 6-0, also on Monday at Heindl Field in the District 9 Class 2A final. Cranberry had beaten the Lady Raiders 13-3 in six innings in last Thursday’s semifinals.

But against Brockway, which lost 8-7 to Redbank Valley in the other semifinal, the hosts pulled away with an eight-run fourth inning to break a 2-2 tie.

“I told the girls at the beginning of the season that I wanted to play on Memorial Day weekend,” Lady Raiders head coach Cliff Park said. “It wasn’t quite the game we wanted to play in, but we went further than a lot of Brookville teams in the past.”

The season ended at 10-10, the Lady Raiders’ best season since putting up the same record after the last postseason it went to in 2019. Their first-round win over Central Clarion last week gave the Lady Raiders their first postseason win since 2006.

The Lady Rovers banged out 16 hits as Payton Craft finished with three singles. Rheanna Spinda, Meeca Smith, Ella Reitz, Isabella Patton and Sierra Fremer all had two hits with Reitz, Josie Orinko, Smith and Freemer all doubling.

Bailee Carberry got the win in the circle, giving up six hits and two walks with three strikeouts in four innings. Navayda Smith threw the fifth.

Megan McKinney singled twice and doubled for the Lady Raiders. Alyssa Tollini, the losing pitcher, doubled in McKinney in the first inning after McKinney started the game with a double. Julie Greeley singled and her courtesy runner Laela Kammerdeiner scored on McKinney’s two-out single in the second.

Cadence Suhan singled in Makaya McLaughlin with two outs in the top of the fifth before Brockway scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth to end the game.

“We started great out of the gate and then the wheels kind of fell off,” Park said. “Brockway is a good team and they hit the ball hard.”

Tollini went 3 2/3 innings and gave up 14 hits and 10 runs, just one of them earned. Suhan went the rest of the way and allowed two hits and three runs, none of them earned.

Tollini, Daisley, Suhan, Bowser and Riley Eble move on with graduation.

“We’re going to miss all the seniors,” Park said. “We’ll start early this fall and get reps back in and hopefully we can string something together next year.”

In last week’s game:

THURSDAY, May 22

Cranberry 13,

Brookville 3

For 2 1/2 innings, the Lady Raiders were making things interesting against top-seeded and eventual champion Cranberry in the District 9 Class 2A semifinals at Heindl Field.

After dropping an 18-2 five-inning loss at home during the regular season, the Lady Raiders tied it a 3-3 with Jordan Daisley’s bases-clearing double with the bases loaded in the third of the third.

One batter later, the Berries took out their pitcher Gracee Hess, the KSAC MVP. The momentum that went with that, however, didn’t last long.

Cranberry kept scoring in every one of its at-bats and pulled away for a six-inning win.

While the Lady Raiders hung around early on, Cranberry never quit hitting. After banging out 20 hits in the regular-season matchup, the Berries finished with 15 hits the second time around.

In the bottom of the third, Keelie Schneider doubled and scored on Ashlyn McWilliams’ one-out single and McWilliams scored on an infield error to give the Berries the lead for good at 5-3. Avery Coe’s RBI single in the fourth made it 6-3.

The Lady Raiders, down three with two runners on after a Kailin Bowser single and Alyssa Tollini walk with Daisley up and not outs, ran themselves out of the inning when a pickoff throw to first that was late to get Elisabeth Delancey led Bowser to try for third base. Bowser was thrown out and then Delancey was cut down at second base. Daisley then flew out to end the inning.

Cranberry kept slugging, scoring three more runs in the fifth inning. Jadyn Shumaker doubled McWilliams to third after she walked to lead off the inning and Haylie Gregory tripled both of them home. She scored on a Hess groundout to make it 9-3.

Five straight batters reached in the bottom of the sixth to score four runs to end the game via the 10-Run Rule with Shumaker’s RBI triple finishing things up. She finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored.

Lexi Reisinger, Avery Cole, Cassie Scarborough, McWilliams and Gregory all had two hits.

Kennedy Stewart replaced the Berries’ Hess in the circle in the third and threw 3 2/3 innings, allowing three hits with a strikeout and walk. She was also the recipient of three double plays from her defense.

Bowser singled twice, reached base three times and scored a run for the Lady Raiders.

Berries reliever Kennedy Stewart replaced Hess to finish the third inning and notched the win, going four innings and allowing three hits with one trikeout and one walk.

Alyssa Tollini struck out three and walked two with 11 of the 13 runs surrendered earned.