Dave Byrne

5 days ago | lancasteronline.com | Dave Byrne

Savanna Benish had a pair of two-run home runs, Jenna Nolan hit a solo shot and West Allegheny feasted on four Solanco errors to defeat the Golden Mules 10-4 in the first round of the PIAA Class 5A softball championships on Monday afternoon in Quarryville. The Indians (17-5) advance to Thursday’s quarterfinals, and will meet Twin Valley (21-5), the fourth-place finisher out of District Three. The Raiders were a 4-3 winner over WPIAL champion Shaler on Monday.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Dave Byrne

Baseball is said to be a game of inches. The same holds true for its sibling, softball. Exhibit A, Friday’s District Three Class 5A championship game. With two runners on and nobody out in the bottom of the first inning, Solanco’s Sara DeFrancesco put a charge into a ball, sending it to dead center field. As the ball sailed toward the fence at Millersville’s Seaber Softball Stadium one could see another trademark, high-scoring victory in the making for the Golden Mules.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Dave Byrne

Kennard-Dale broke open a tightly played contest by scoring a run in the sixth inning and two more in the seventh to defeat Northern Lebanon 4-1 in the District Three Class 4A softball championship, Tuesday afternoon at Millersville’s Seaber Softball Stadium. The championship was the third in six appearances for the Rams (20-2), who won a 2A title in 1990 and one in 4A in 2017. They fell in last year’s 4A final to Trinity.

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Dave Byrne

MECHANICSBURG — Rest versus rust? Between the end of the regular season, an early bye in the playoffs and two weather-related postponements, Cumberland Valley hadn’t played a meaningful softball game in 16 days. But there was not a spot of rust to be found on the No. 2-seeded Eagles on Saturday morning as Sydney May and Lauren Richardson threw a combined no-hitter, defeating Hempfield 7-0 in a District Three Class 6A quarterfinal.

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Dave Byrne

MECHANICSBURG — Rest versus rust? Between the end of the regular season, an early bye in the playoffs and two weather-related postponements, Cumberland Valley hadn’t played a meaningful softball game in 16 days. But there was not a spot of rust to be found on the No. 2-seeded Eagles on Saturday morning as Sydney May and Lauren Richardson threw a combined no-hitter, defeating Hempfield 7-0 in a District Three Class 6A quarterfinal.