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Braves Fall to Annville, Dominate Blazers

BY ARA GROGORIAN

In Lancaster-Lebanon League softball action, Pequea Valley hosted Annville-Cleona on Thursday, April 28.

After the Braves battled back to even the score at 4-4 in the fourth inning, the Dutchmen were able to pull ahead on an odd sequence of calls by one of the umpires.

“The umpire called our pitchers’ pitches ‘illegal’ in the fifth inning,” explained a befuddled Doug High, the Pequea head coach.

With the so-called “illegal” pitches being called balls, the Dutchmen went on to draw four walks in the fifth inning and three more in the sixth en route to their 14-4 victory at Pequea.

“We tied the game up in the bottom of the fourth inning,” High said. “Our number one and number nine hitters did a good job getting on base.”

The batters he was referring to were Emily Ammon and Sarah Arment, respectively. Arment went 2-for-2 with a stolen base. Ammon had three hits, including a double and a triple. She also stole two bases and drove in a run.

Against Lancaster Mennonite on Monday, the Braves routed the Blazers 19-7.

Pequea had 15 hits, including two doubles. One rarity that may have prompted some to page through L-L League record books was that 10 PV batters reached base after being hit by a pitched ball.

“Two of our kids got hit three times - Camryn Bailey and Hailey Yothers,” High noted. “Camryn got hit three times and had a double.

“Carissa Mulder also had a nice day at the plate,” said High. Mulder had four hits and four runs scored plus two RBI’s. She also got hit by a pitch once.

Emily Ammon was 2-for-5 with two RBI’s.

Maddy Hassis pitched four innings in relief.

“Hassis did a great job hitting her spots,” added the coach. “She had seven strikeouts in four innings - that’s a personal best.”

TENNIS

In the L-L League Championship Tournament, which took place at Conestoga Valley, starting on April 28 and concluding on May 2, Pequea’s Cole Stoltzfus reached the finale of the Flight Four singles only to lose a hard-fought battle to Jack Nyeveldt of Elizabethtown.

Stoltzfus defeated Jared Hostetler of Annville-Cleona in a close match, 6-2, 6-7, 106. He went on to win his next battle 7-5, 6-2 over Cocalico’s Nicholas Neustadter, making it to the semifinals where he topped Gonzalo Diez Vilarino of Lancaster Country Day 6-1, 7-5.

Stoltzfus came up short in that epic finale, however. After posting a 6-2 win, he lost 3-6, 6-10.

Hayden Winey reached the semifinals of the Flight Three singles, losing to the eventual runner-up - Hempfield sophomore Andre Hurst. Winey beat Lancaster Mennonite’s Oliver Hall in a tough match, 6-3, 3-6, 10-6. In the next match, he topped Marin Davis of Warwick 6-4, 6-0 before Hurst ended the PV freshman’s quest with a 6-1, 6-2 victory.

Wade Stoltzfus lost the fifth-place match in the Flight One Class AA singles. He opened with a bye and fell to Freddie Bloom of LCD in straight sets. In the consolations, he rebounded with a 67, 7-5, 6-3, defeat of Lancaster Catholic’s George Brubaker but lost to Jayden Grumbine of Elco 7-5, 2-6, 4-6 in the fifth-place match.

Jazae Itegi won his first match in Flight Two singles 61, 6-1 over A.J. Paynter of Warwick before suffering a 26, 6-4, 5-10 loss to Nick Keener of Manheim Township.

Itegi teamed up with Wade Stoltzfus in the Flight One AA brackets where they lost to Elco’s Grumbine and Trevor Spang 3-6, 2-6 in the second round.

BASEBALL

For much of the season, Pequea baseball coach Carl Langley has said how important it is for his lineup to put up more runs on the scoreboard.

This past week, the Braves won three L-L League games by a combined score of 32-4.

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PV first baseman Hailey Yothers takes the throw to make the putout on Annville-Cleona’s Claire Hoover in the Braves’ 14-4, Section Four loss at home on April 28.

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Sarah Arment legs out an infield hit for the Braves during their 14-4, Section Four loss to visiting Annville-Cleona on April 28.

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Pequea Valley’s Carissa Mulder slaps a hit up the middle in the Braves’ 14-4, Section Four loss to Annville-Cleona, April 28 in Kinzers.