Crestwood Sports Roundup Comets sports teams get early victories

The Crestwood baseball team improved to 3-0 last week with a 5-3 non-league win over visiting Honesdale.

Joseph Moratori had two hits and four RBIs to lead the Crestwood offense. Nick Miscavage had two hits and scored twice for the Comets.

Softball

Crestwood 10, Honesdale 9 - Last week at Crestwood, Madison Mendrzycki had three hits, including a double, a run and two RBIs as the Lady Comets rallied past visiting Honesdale for the nonleague win.

Victoria Butler had a single and a double, two runs and two RBIs for Crestwood, which scored six runs in the bottom of the seventh to erase a 9-3 deficit. Sekiyah Dutton homered and drove in three for Honesdale. Maria Maglione had a single and a double,

Weatherly Area Softball Roundup Lady Wreckers win twice, vonFrisch reaches 400 strikeouts

Last week in Weatherly, senior pitcher Madisyn vonFrisch tossed a one-hit gem with 10 strikeouts to power the Lady Wreckers to an 11-1 Schuylkill League softball win over Panther Valley.

In the process, the King’s College recruit notched her 400th career strikeout, ending the game with 405 whiffs over the last threeplus seasons.

Juliette Bartel had two singles, two RBIs and one run scored for the Lady Wreckers. Kelly Michaels and vonFrisch each had a single and two RBIs.

Panther Valley........000 10 — 1 1 3 Weatherly Area...... 323 3x — 11 8 0 Alabovitz and Yuricheck; VonFrisch and Paulino-Diaz. W — VonFrisch. L — Alabovitz.

Weatherly Area 18, Lincoln Leadership 0 - Kelly Michaels tossed a one-hit shutout in the Lady Wreckers’ non-league victory over Lincoln Leadership last Friday. Michaels struck out four in the three-inning game. At the plate, she went 2-for-3 with four runs scored and two RBIs.

Madisyn vonFrisch had a 4-for-4 day with a triple, three runs scored and two RBIs for the Lady Wreckers (3-1). Juliette Bartel was 3-for-4 with three runs and three RBIs; Ava Sahaida went 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs; and Raynessa Paulino-Diaz was 2-for-4 with a double,. one run and one RBI.

Weatherly Area........(11)25 — 18 14 1 two runs and two RBIs. Boys’ Tennis Crestwood 5, Hazleton Area 0Crestwood players dropped a total of six games over four contested matches on the way to a shutout win over Hazleton Area in a WVC match last week. their only match point at first singles, where Michael Hamel shut out Tommy Biscotti 6-0, 6-0.

Lincoln Leadership.....000 — 0 1 6 Michaels and Paulino-Diaz; Maldonado and Vasquez. W — Michaels. L — Maldonado.

Marian 7, Weatherly Area 1 - Last Tuesday in Hometown, the Marian girls rode the pitching and hitting of Morgan Kelly to a Schuylkill League Division III win over the Lady Wreckers.

The defending divisionchampion Fillies (3-0, 1-0) jumped out to an early lead in the home first as Alise Heisey worked a one-out walk, Kelly laced a line-drive home run to right-center field for a quick 2-0 lead.

In singles, Tommy Biscotti defeated Mateo Feola 6-1, 6-0; Noah Ceklosky beat Jacob Narrow 6-1, 6-0; and Scott Lenio was a 6-1, 6-0 winner over Josh Strohl.

From there, it was all Comets.

Noah Ceklosky eased past Amir Samadian (6-4, 6-1) at second singles, while Comets’ teammate Scott Lenio won by forfeit at third singles.

Gracie Gallagher singled and stole second base, and Julia Meiss and Heisey delivered RBI-singles to make it 4-0 after two innings.

The Lady Wreckers cut it to 4-1 in the sixth, finally getting to Kelly. Madisyn vonFrisch, who finished 3-for-3 with a stolen base, singled, took second on a groundout, stole third and scored on Raynessa PaulinoDiaz’s RBI double over the center fielder’s head.

VonFrisch struck out 10 Marian batters and kept the Lady Wreckers in the game until Kelly delivered again in the bottom of the sixth, ripping a two-run triple and scoring on a wild pitch to cap the 7-1 victory.

Kelly went 4-for-4 with a triple, a homer, four RBIs, two runs scored and two stolen bases for Marian. In the circle, she allowed just five hits and struck out 14.

Weatherly Area..... 000 001 0 - 1 5 0 Marian...................310 003 x - 7 9 1 vonFrisch and Paulino-Diaz. Kelly and Grabosky.

W - Kelly. L - VonFrisch.

In the only doubles match that was played, Crestwood’s Spencer Young and Braiden Fallbright blitzed Jase Mumie and Ed Yanac 6-0, 6-3. Tyler Furedi and Anthony Lettieri picked up a forfeit win for the Comets in the other doubles match.

Crestwood 4, Wilkes-Barre Area 1The Comets improved to 3-0 on the season with Monday’s WVC victory at Wilkes-Barre Area.

The host Wolfpack got

Crestwood also took both doubles matches. At first doubles, Spencer Young and Braiden Fallbright topped Luis Vanagas and Harold Stella; while Aaron Kogoy and Will Savner beat Robert Ashford and Miguel Garcia at #2 doubles. Both match scores were 6-1, 6-0.