Mifflinburg’s pitching dominates Clinton, 6-0

By Tom Elling

WYALUSING, PA – It was a game all who followed both teams figured would be a pitchers’ dual. It did turn out that way with Mifflinburg’s Taylor Stewart shutting down Clinton 10-12 girls on a one-hit, ten strikeout shutout. She allowed just one base-runner. Her control was immaculate and she mixed enough change-ups with her devastating fastball to quiet the usually-potent Clinton bats.

On the other side, Camdyn Weaver also threw a strong game giving up just two hits and striking out six. But the roof caved in in the top of the third when Weaver walked the leadoff batter Olivia Fetterman. She moved to second on a passed ball and was sacrificed to third on a perfect bunt by Amelia Fluman. The next batter Anna Pachucki also laid down a bunt and reached first safely when pitcher Weaver elected to not make the throw to first base in an effort to prevent the runner on third from scoring. After a strikeout, an infield error let in two runs to give Mifflinburg a 2-0 lead. The next batter walked and that was followed by an RBI single to center by Brooke Gessner. Another infield error allowed the fourth run to score before Weaver collected a strike-out to close out a disastrous inning- four runs scored on just one hit.

Mifflinburg continued their assault after a lead-off batter was hit by a pitch and sacrificed to second; that batter moved up to third on a groundout. Weaver issued her second walk, putting runners on the corners. After taking a pitch to allow an uncontested stolen base, winning pitcher Taylor Stewart delivered a two-run triple. She tried for an inside-the-park homerun, but was gunned down on a perfect 8-6-2 play (featuring Cheyenne Weaver to Maesyn Franquet to Reagan Weaver).

In the bottom of the fourth, Aubrey lined a single over first after two were out. Stewart garnered another ‘K’ to erase the only minor threat Clinton would mount.

Aubrey Eiler relieved in the fifth allowing just one base-runner (aboard on another IF error).

Clinton will make the two-hour trip once again Thursday to take on (presumably) Tunkhannock – the team they ten-runned on Tuesday.

Coach Shawn Weaver was effusive in his praise of the work Mifflinburg’s Stewart did on the mound. “She didn’t walk a batter so we had no pressure on her the entire game. Give her credit. She pitched extremely well. We’ll be back tomorrow to see what happens.”

Mifflinburg  0 0 4 2 0 0    6 runs 2 hits 0 errors

Clinton      0 0 0 0 0 0    0 runs 1 hit  3 errors