Hometown Softball Recap – Peters Township Indians

By: HSSN Staff
Thursday, May 4, 2017 | 11:47 PM

The Peters Township Indians fell at home in a game they needed to win to continue to control their own destiny in their march to the WPIAL Softball Playoffs.  The Baldwin Highlanders strung four hits together in the pivotal 5th inning and defeated the Indians 4-0 for the 8th consecutive time. 

Baldwin took a 1-0 lead in the 3rd inning. Cassie Carlson led off with a single and Salena Juquay beat out a sacrifice bunt to give the Highlanders first-and-second with no outs.  Taylor Dadig then sacrificed Carlson to third base and Juquay to second base before Addie Tagg delivered the first run with an RBI groundout. 

The Highlanders scored the three 5th-inning runs after two were out. Juquay would reach on an error before Dadig crushed a pitch over the left-center field fence giving the Highlanders a 3-0 lead.  Tagg would then follow with a double and was knocked home by a single by Sam Wampler. 

As it turned out, the starting pitcher, Tagg, wouldn’t need those insurance runs as she shut down the offense of the Indians. 

Tagg retired the first thirteen Peters Township hitters she faced before giving up three consecutive singles in the fifth inning.  With one out Victoria Boehme, Alex Bondi and Yaya Hutnik all singled, loading the bases for the Indians.  The next hitter, Kylie Hartbauer would ground the ball to shortstop. Dadig came up looking to throw home but thought better of it and threw on to 1B to get the guaranteed out.  However, the base umpire ruled that Bondi interfered with Dadig’s throw to 1B which canceled out the Indians run and put the runners back at their original bases before the grounder was hit.  Tagg then got Chloe Paugh to pop out to end the threat. 

With the loss, the Peters Township Indians drop to 5-6, 7-6 and now need to defeat Canon-McMillan and hope that the Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils loses one of their final two section games against Bethel Park and Upper St. Clair.