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Abigail Mawhinney
Jaymee Wice
Pitching gems highlight 3 softball
victories; Franklin winless no longer
Three local softball victories; three pitching gems.
To wit:
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Jaymee Wice twirled a three-hit shutout and struck out seven in Oil City's 7-0 victory over Jamestown. Riley Johnson used two hits to drive in four runs.
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Hitter-turned-pitcher Cheyne Scarbrough hurled a six-inning two-hitter as Cranberry shelled Central Clarion, 12-1. Scarborough walked one and fanned three. Pitcher-turned-slugger Danica Wenner went four-for-four with a homer, two RBI and three runs scored. Also chipping in at the dish: Avery Coe and Kennedy Stewart with doubles, Jaydn Shumaker with a triple -- her sixth of the season -- and Gracee Hess with two hits, matching Coe and Stewart. Hess also drove in two runs.
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Abigail Mawhinney pitched Rocky Grove to a 9-1 decision over Reynolds. She also starred at the plate with three hits and four RBI.
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And this just in: A 14-run first triggered Franklin to a 20-6 victory over Warren, the Lady Knights' first win of the season after 12 losses. Oddly enough, Franklin had just one hit: a double by Leaha Rial, but walks and hit batsmen were plentiful for the Knights.
Baseball
Rocky Grove baseball won, besting Cochranton, 7-5, behind Liam Grigsby's two hits and two RBI and Lucas McCool's two knocks.​
Oil City, Franklin and Cranberry all took it on the chin, however.
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Sharon defeated the Oilers, 5-3 as Marko Zajac drove in three runs.
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Titusville knocked off Franklin, 10-2, behind three hits and two RBI apiece by Blake Schmidt and Coy Campbell. Schmidt homered for the Rockets.
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Clarion-Limestone outlasted Cranberry, 8-7. Each team had only six hits, but the Lions drew eight walks -- and won despite committing six errors. The Berries scored three in the seventh and had runners on but their rally fell short.
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Mawhinney photo by Christy Fackler; others by Kelly Malek photography​
Danica Wenner
Tiger's son will continue his football career at Ohio State where he'll major in business finance
Reigning in the rain
Surrounded by teammates and coaches, shot putter Halle Curry displays the Franklin Invitational title hardware. Rain has let up, making a photo opp possible.
(Photo by Tammy Curry)
The Franklin girls won their own invitational Saturday. The meet attracted a variety of top-flight athletes -- including Franklin's own Logan Knight -- as well as plenty of understudies who had a chance to get their feet wet (no pun intended) in an invitational.
Knight won the shot (56-3) and took third in the discus. The field there included Titusville's Lane Ongley and Ethan Tarbox of Port Allegany whose winning fling was 164-8.
Ongley was second (51-8, 161-9) in both events.
The meet included two 21-foot long jumpers and a 6-4 high jumper from North East. And the girls shot featured a 40-foot putter.
Meanwhile, Franklin's Aaron Moore Junior continued his climb up the ladder to stardom in the shot. Saturday, he was up to 47-81/2.
Also for other Franklin boys, Maxx Griffin was runnerup in the 1600.
Varsity mainstays Anna Rodgers, Lilyan Miller, Lena Laderer and Miah Shingledecker were the foundation of the girls' team title.
Franklin was also first in the 3200 relay (Alayna Gahr, Sophie Wehrle, Justeyn Winner and Josephine Keller); second in the 400 (Rodgers, Brylee Burger, Laderer, Miller) and third in the 1600 (Rodgers, Miah Shingledecker, Laderer, Alaina Byler). Winner won the 3200, Miller took three individual seconds and Marshall recruit Isabel Griffin was runnerup in the 1600...
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Rain kind of put a damper on the 17th running of the 12-team Franklin Invitational Saturday.
Malek Photography
Cranberry, Oil City girls 1-2
in 3200 relay at McDowell
The 39th McDowell Invitational got off to a rousing start for local athletes Friday afternoon as Cranberry and Oil City finished 1-2 in the girls 3200 relay.
Both foursomes shaved serious seconds off their previous best times. The Berries -- with Beatrice Kolesar (pictured), Elena Ishman, Darien Wenner and Ava Earp doing the work -- ran 9:52.45 to repeat as champion. That was 23 seconds off their previous best this season.
Oil City was right behind -- at least kind of -- at 10:07.53, knocking 14 seconds off their previous best. And Corabel Shiley (pictured), new addition Bailey Stevens, Lily Shiley and Addison Wyant finished well ahead of the rest of the field.
Not long after that, Kolesar took third in the 1600. Corabel Shiley was seventh. Neither junior ran a season's best.
Later on, two Oil City athletes won titles in the field events. Olive Collins cleared a PR 5-3 to win the high jump and Madi Garland put the shot 36 feet, not only a personal best but a Pennsylvania top 50 throw.
But as of the 6 o'clock news, results were in for the sprints and short hurdles. but that was about it. Oil City's Michael Fink was fifth in the hurdles, and interestingly, he beat basketball star Kenny Godoy of Girard.
Oil City girls scored twice in the 100 hurdles. Olive Collins was fourth and Stevens was seventh.
There was a big surprise in the boys 100 where Kc Wasiulewski of Ft. LeBoeuf ran 11-flat to top reigning state champion Vinny Feliciano of Mercyhurst. Feliciano ran 11.12 and was just ahead of erstwhile star long jumper Tymir Phillips of Meadville who was timed in 11.15.
Feliciano was not to be denied in the 200, though.
​The Oil City boys scored well in the open 400. Sophomore Morris Woodhouse was second and junior Dylan VanWormer was fourth. Both ran personal bests.
Sophomore Carter Thompson was fourth in the 300 hurdles and also beat Penn State Behrend-bound Godoy, who was fifth. Both ran personal bests. Stevens was fifth and Collins eighth in the girls 300.
Wyant was runnerup in the girls 800, and freshman teammate Kaelyn Klapec was eighth. Oil City's Rilee Matalino was fifth and Cranberry's Dalton Wenner was eighth in the boys 800.
Kolesar was second in the 3200, a race that Shiley sat out. Ishman was fifth. Daniel McCain seventh in the boys 3200.
1600 relay results: Oil City girls (L. Shiley, Stevens, Wyant, C. Shiley) fifth; Cranberry girls (Olivia Smith, freshman Navy Perry, Earp, Jillian Wry), eighth; Oil City boys (VanWormer, Matalino, Thompson, Woodhouse), third (3:31.25); Cranberry boys (Cole Findlay, Blake Marchinke, Wenner, Landon Baker), fourth (3:32.63). Oilers, Berries ran in different heats. Both are flirting with school records.
Field events
Results of the field events were late being released. In addition to her win in the shot, Garland, a junior, took second in the javelin as Oil City finished fourth in the team standings. For seventh-place Cranberry, Wenner was third in the pole vault and ChishaBetty Watson was fifth in the high jump. McDowell was team champ.
Neither Nevin Stinson nor Spence Singleton competed for the Oil City boys, who were eighth as a team. Best and only medal finish in the field was a third in the high jump by Fink.
Findlay was sixth in the long jump and in a four-way tie for eighth in the high while Shane Clarke in the javelin and Hunter Montgomery in the shot collected fourths. The Berries were last among 17 teams. Bradford, which shined in the field, won all the marbles.
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Track Honor Roll: The Times They are a-Changin'
BOYS TRACK
3200 relay
Oil City 9:33.16 (Kaleb Guiste, Elliot Hulsizer, Tim Kahle, Rilee Matalino)
110 hurdles
Michael Fink, Oil City, 15.82
100
Morris Woodhouse, Oil City, 11.41
Cole Findlay, Cranberry, 11.63
Jackson Wilson, Franklin, 11.97
1600
Rilee Matalino, Oil City. 4:31.36
Maxx Griffin, Franklin, 4:46.59
Daniel McCain, Cranberry, 4:51.87
400
Morris Woodhouse, Oil City, 51.76
Dylan Van Wormer Oil City, 52.34
Blake Marchinke, Cranberry, 53.34
Eddie Mattocks, Franklin, 54.78
400 relay
Oil City (Landon Riley, Steven Heise, Carter Thompson, Morris Woodhouse) 45.61
Franklin (Eddie Mattocks, Jackson Wilson, Cody Walkowski, Samuel Miller), 46.77
300 hurdles
Carter Thompson, Oil City, 42.6
Garrett Dick, Cranberry, 45.12
Jayden Jackson, Cranberry, 46.10
Sam Miller, Franklin, 46.71
Cam Winger, Franklin, 47.58
800
Rilee Matalino, Oil City, 2:00.78
Dalton Wenner, Cranberry, 2:01.10
200
Morris Woodhouse, Oil City, 23.24
Eddie Mattocks, Franklin, 24.41
Dylan VanWormer, Oil City, 24.16
Blake Marchinke, Cranberry, 24.6
3200
Daniel McCain, Cranberry, 10:28.47
Max Griffin, Franklin, 10:34.81
Elliot Hulsizer, Oil City, 10:59.29
1600 relay
Oil City (Dylan VanWormer, Rilee Matalino, Carter Thompson, Morris Woodhouse), 3:31.25
Cranberry (Cole Findlay, Landon Baker, Blake Marchinke, Dalton Wenner), 3:32.63
Franklin (A.J. Rodriguez, Eddie Mattocks, Samuel Miller, Jackson Wilson), 3:44.28
Boys Field
Shot
Logan Knight, Franklin, 59-4
Aaron Moore Junior, Franklin, 47-81/2
Caleb Sparks, Cranberry, 44-1
Bradley Graham, Oil City, 43-41/4
Jayce Becoate, Oil City, 42-51/2
Discus
Logan Knight, Franklin, 162-4
Javelin
Spence Singleton, Oil City, 183-1
Shane Clark, Cranberry, 153-3
High jump
Cole Findlay, Cranberry, 6-0
Michael Fink, Oil City, 5-9
Long jump
Cole Findlay, Cranberry, 21-10
Nevin Stinson, Oil City, 20-10
Jackson Wilson, Franklin, 20-3
Clark Findlay, Cranberry, 20-2
Triple jump
Nevin Stinson, Oil City, 41-1
Bart Rosen , Oil City, 40-6
Pole vault
Tahelon Tarr, Oil City, 9-6
Dalton Wenner, Cranberry, 9-0
Skyler Myers, Oil City, 9-0
Girls track
3200 relay
Cranberry (Beatrice Kolesar, Darien Wenner, Elena Ishman, Ava Earp), 9:52.45
Oil City (Corabel Shiley, Lilly Shiley, Addison Wyant, Bailey Stevens) 10:07.53
100 hurdles
Olive Collins, Oil City, 16.19
Anna Rodgers, Franklin, 16.54; Bailey Stevens, Oil City, 16.6
100
Lilyan MIller, Franklin, 12.77
Sophia Garmong, Oil City, 13.15
1600
Beatrice Kolesar, Cranberry, 5:13.72
Corabel Shiley, Oil City, 5:18.43
Isabel Griffin, Franklin, 5:21.83
Addison Wyant, Oil City, 5:24.03
Kaelyn Kla[pec, Oil City, 5:38.87
Lilly Shiley, Oil City, 5:47.41
Elena Ishman, Cranberry, 5:56.53
400
Darien Wenner, Cranberry, 61.56
Lena Laderer, Franklin, 61.93
Sophia Garmong, Oil City, 63.17
Navy Perry, Cranberry, 63.59
Miah Shingledecker, Franklin, 64.55
400 relay
Franklin (Anna Rodgers, Lilyan Miller, Lily Griffin, Lena Laderer), 52.82
300 hurdles
Bailey Stevens Oil City, 48.68
Anna Rodgers, Franklin, 49.41
Olive Collins, Oil City, 51.13
800
Beatrice Kolesar, Cranberry, 2:23.69
Isabel Griffin, Franklin, 2:24.24
Corabel Shiley, Oil City, 2:26.76
Addison Wyant, Oil City, 2:27.18
200
Lilyan Miller, Franklin, 26.72
Sophia Garmong, Oil City, 27.51
Darien Wenner, Cranberry, 28.49
3200
Beatrice Kolesar, Cranberry, 10:58.44
Corabel Shiley, Oil City, 11:12.90
Isabel Griffin, Franklin, 11:45.61
Addison Wyant, Oil City, 12:10.33
Elena Ishman, Cranberry, 12:16.45
​1600 relay
Oil City (Lilly Shiley, Bailey Stevens, Addison Wyant, Corabel Shiley), 4:20.99
Franklin (Anna Rodgers, Lena Laderer, Miah Shingledecker, Sophie Wehrle, 4:23.73
Girls Field
Shot
Madi Garland, Oil City, 36-0
Halle Curry, Franklin, 30-0
Rhetta Boocks, Cranberry, 29-81/2
Discus
Madi Garland, Oil City, 101-101/2
Javelin
Madi Garland, Oil City, 112-6
High jump
Olive Collins, Oil City, 5-3
ChishaBetty Watson, Cranberry, 4-10
Payton Liederbach, Oil City, 4-9
Lindsay Caralla, Oil City, 4-9
Long jump
Lilyan Miller, Franklin, 16-61/2
Isabella Vorse, Oil City, 15-113/4
Triple jump
Lena Laderer, Franklin, 34-5
Pole vault
Darien Wenner, Cranberry, 11-6
Navy Perry, Cranberry, 8-6
Bailey Stevens, Oil City, 8-0
milestone men
These seniors have already or have a chance to reach milestones this spring. Cranberry's Connor Morrow has passed 100 career strikeouts, and now has 102. He's even better shining the bat: a career .355 hitter with 18 doubles and 42 RBI. Haydon Bevier of Rocky Grove also has 100 strikeouts -- in fact, he's well past that mark with 158. He's pitched 139.1 innings for the Grove and sports a 15-4 record and a 3.37 ERA. Bevier has 52 strikeouts and a 2.92 ERA this season. Oil City's Casey Rybak just has good stats: a two-year batting average of .358 to go with a .514 on-base percentage.
Keeping up with Luke Guth
Luke Guth got the win in Vanderbilt's 6-0 shutout of No. 4 Texas on Saturday. He pitched 2.1 innings of one-hit ball, fanning four of the eight batters he faced. It was his first action in a week. He is 2-1.
Then on Sunday, he pitched another two-thirds of an inning (scoreless), in a 4-3 loss in 10 innings.
He leads the team with 18 appearances.
Vandy (26-19) will host Middle Tennessee Tuesday and then face Alabama in a three-game series Thursday through Saturday. The first two games are at 6 p.m., the third at 1 p.m.
This space is dedicated to keeping up with Guth, a 6-1, 188-pound junior right-hander from Franklin.
Luke Guth is one of 19 pitchers on the Vanderbilt staff.
Conner Fennell leads with 62 innings pitched. He's made 11 starts. and his ERA is 5.66. Fennell has given up 15 homers and opponents are batting .266 against him. Wyatt Nadeau is next with 38.1 innings.
Guth is one of nine hurlers who have pitched between 18-30 innings.
It looks as if the coach knows how to space out his pitchers, not running their young arms into the ground.
