Kevin Carroll

This one might be the best ever

FINAL: Valley View 10, Dallas 3.

Valley View goes down 1-2-3 in the top of the seventh. Last bats for Dallas, trailing 10-2.

A long single from Sydney Haydu out to the wall in center drives home Emma Fostock for another Dallas run. Valley View 10, Dallas 2 headed to the top of the seventh.

Valley View makes it a 10-1 lead with four runs in the top of the sixth. A fifth run, which would have made it a ten-run lead and forced Dallas to score to keep the game going, was called out after it was determined the VV runner left early on a would-be sacrifice fly.

Quick inning both ways, Valley View leads Dallas 6-1 after five full.

top of the fifth

Valley View tacks on another run, it’s 6-1 headed to the top of the sixth. Zoie Krupovich RBI single plated Cora Castellani for the Cougars.

Elliot Rigol launches an opposite-field homer over the right field fence to get Dallas on the board. Valley View leads 5-1 heading to the fourth inning.

Valley View leads Dallas 5-0 after two full innings of play. The Cougars scored four times in the top of the inning, with Abbi Call driving in two. Dallas’s Alyssa Traver singled and eventually made it over to third in the bottom half, but was stranded there.

END 1: Three up, three down to start the day for Valley View pitcher Abbi Call: two strikeouts and a fly ball to right. 1-0 Valley View after the first full inning of play here.

Cora Castellani RBI groundout to short scores Swingle. Valley View up 1-0 on Dallas heading to the bottom half of the first.

First pitch from Dallas’s Lacey Youngblood is ripped for a triple by Valley View’s Ella Swingle. We’re underway.

I’m here at the Back Mountain Little League for some Saturday high school softball. Dallas hosts the reigning PIAA Class 4A champs Valley View. First pitch at 1:00.

Leah Ricardo had six goals for Dallas.

FINAL: Wyoming Seminary passes a tough test with a 13-9 win over Dallas. Five goals and four assists for Ellie Kersey and four goals for Natalina DeNaples in the win.

END 3Q: Wyoming Seminary 10, Dallas 7. Sem stretches the lead back to three with goals from Ellie Kersey and Emerson Swartz. Kersey’s got four goals and three assists, both team highs.

Dallas has cut Sem’s lead down to just one goal again, it’s 8-7 with 5:21 left in the third quarter. Leah Ricardo has two goals in this quarter and five total.

Dallas: Leah Ricardo has a hat trick. Sarah Snowdon and Logan Jacobs have one goal apiece.

For Sem: Ellie Kersey, Mirabaai Reitsma and Natalina DeNaples have two goals each. Sara Williams has one goal. Kersey also has three assists.