HUNTINGDON \u2014 After losing two close games to Huntingdon, the Philipsburg-Osceola softball team finally got the best of the Lady Bearcats when it mattered most.<\/p>\n
The ninth-seeded Lady Mounties toppled eighth-seeded Huntingdon 7-1 on Thursday in the first round of the District 6 2A playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Lady Bearcats topped P-O 1-0 on May 8, following a 2-0 win over the Lady Mounties on March 18.<\/p>\n
But Philipsburg-Osceola didn\u2019t give the hosts much of a chance, scoring five runs in the second inning, then getting a gusty performance from Alivia Bizzarri in the circle to close it out.<\/p>\n
The top of the second started with an out, as Adi Jarrett popped up to second.<\/p>\n
Morgan Vaughn and Macie Bush hit back-to-back singles before McKenna Thorp put down a sacrifice bunt to move them to second and third.<\/p>\n
Ashlynn Havens went down in the count 0-2, but rallied back to take the sixth pitch she saw into center field, scoring both Vaughn and Bush.<\/p>\n
Havens came home on an RBI double from Emily Gustkey to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n
Bizzarri then took the first pitch she saw from Huntingdon starter Alivia Nicklow and blasted it over the fence, increasing the visitors lead to 5-0.<\/p>\n
Nicklow finally got out of the inning with a strikeout, but the damage had been done.<\/p>\n
Bizzarri sat the Lady Bearcats down in order in the bottom of the second.<\/p>\n
P-O\u2019s Camryn Chverchko singled to lead off the top of the third, before being bunted over to second by Jarrett.<\/p>\n
Chverchko then moved to third on a wild pitch.<\/p>\n
She tried coming home on a single into center by Vaughn, but was thrown out at the plate by Huntingdon outfielder Raelynn Fisher.<\/p>\n
Nicklow got Macie Bush to fly out to right to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Huntingdon got on the board in the bottom of the third, thanks to an error.<\/p>\n
Alexa Beyer and Fisher had back-to-back singles to open up the frame, before Bizzarri struck out the next batter.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Kyle singled into right, allowing Beyer to get to third. She came home on an error on the same play to trim the score to 5-1.<\/p>\n
Bizzarri buckled down and got a strikeout and a lineout to second to end the frame and leave runners stranded on second and third.<\/p>\n
Philipsburg-Osceola got the run back and added an insurance run in the top of the fourth.<\/p>\n
Havens reached on a one-out error and stole second before Gustkey drew a walk.<\/p>\n
The Lady Mounties put on the double steal, putting runners at second and third for Bizzarri.<\/p>\n
She singled into left, bringing home Havens to make it 6-1.<\/p>\n
Mia Butler put down a squeeze bunt, allowing Gustkey to come home and put the lead at 7-1.<\/p>\n
Huntingdon left the bases loaded in both the fourth and sixth inning, but Bizzarri worked out of both jams.<\/p>\n
In the sixth, the Lady Bearcats reached on an error, a single and a hit by pitch.<\/p>\n
Bizzarri then struck out the next two batters swinging before getting another to pop out in foul territory to Chverchko to end the threat.<\/p>\n
The Lady Mounties also loaded the bases in the top of the sixth, but failed to push a run across.<\/p>\n
Bizarri struck out three of the four batters she faced in the bottom of the seventh, allowing a single to Alivia Edwards with one out.<\/p>\n
She finished the game with 12 strikeouts. The Lady Mountie hurler allowed eight hits on the day, with just one run and one walk to her credit.<\/p>\n
She also led the team in RBIs with three on two hits. Havens had two RBIs, two hits and two runs scored.<\/p>\n
Gustkey knocked in one run, had two doubles and scored twice.<\/p>\n
Vaughn added two hits.<\/p>\n
Philipsburg-Osceola improved to 12-6 overall. The Lady Mounties face top-seeded Forest Hills in the quarterfinals on Monday.<\/p>\n
Huntingdon finished the season at 12-8.<\/p>\n
Philipsburg-Osceola\u20147<\/p>\n
Gustkey c 2221, Bizzarri p 3123, Butler 1b 3001, Chverchko ss 4010, Jarrett lf 3010, Vaughn 2b 4120, Bush cf 4110, Thorp rf 1000, Hampton rf 2000, Havens 3b 3222. Totals: 29-7-11-7.<\/p>\n
Huntingdon\u20141<\/p>\n
Royer 2b 4000, Kyle lf 4020, Foster ss 4010, Kazmarski c 3010, Sheffield ph 1000, Edwards rf 3010, Nicklow p 3000, Stratton dp 4000, Beyer 3b 3020, Fisher cf 1110. Totals: 31-1-8-0.<\/p>\n
Score by Innings<\/p>\n
P-O 050 200 0\u20147 11 3<\/p>\n
Huntingdon 001 000 0\u20141 8 1<\/p>\n
Errors\u2014Thorp, Hampton, Havens. Beyer. 2B\u2014Gustkey 2, HR\u2014Bizzarri. HBP\u2014Gustkey. Fisher 2. SB\u2014Hampton, Havens 2, Gustkey.<\/p>\n
Pitching<\/p>\n
Philipsburg-Osceola: Bizzarri\u20147 IP, 8 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 12 SO.<\/p>\n
Huntingdon: Nicklow\u20147 IP, 11 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 6 SO.<\/p>\n
WP\u2014Bizzarri. LP\u2014Nicklow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTINGDON \u2014 After losing two close games to Huntingdon, the Philipsburg-Osceola softball team finally got the best of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,2336,2351,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,3696,3382,2330,2333,2334,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2322,2307,185,2324,2560,2350,2338,2311,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-30905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-ball-games","11":"tag-base-on-balls","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-baseball-competitions","14":"tag-baseball-events","15":"tag-baseball-finals","16":"tag-baseball-games","17":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","18":"tag-bunt-baseball","19":"tag-error-baseball","20":"tag-glossary-of-baseball-terms","21":"tag-grass-field-surfaces","22":"tag-lawn-games","23":"tag-major-league-baseball","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","26":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","27":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","28":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","29":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-mlb-playoffs","32":"tag-mlb-postseason","33":"tag-october-sporting-events","34":"tag-outdoor-sports","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-events","37":"tag-stolen-base","38":"tag-strikeout","39":"tag-team-activities","40":"tag-team-sports","41":"tag-turf-sports","42":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}