Pennridge vs. Central Bucks West

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Central Bucks West traveled to Druckenmiller Park to take on the Pennridge Rams in a Tuesday afternoon contest. Pennridge got on the board first against Freshman pitcher Brielle Jenner, who was making her second start of the season for the Bucks. Jenner pitched a complete game shutout in her first start against Hopewell Valley Central High School. Jenner got into some early trouble against the Rams offense when four of the first five batters for Pennridge collected hits. Payton Keyser led off the game for Pennridge with a double to left field. After a Rams strike out by their second hitter of the inning, Taylor Toutkoushian drove in the first run of the day for the Rams with an RBI single. Pitcher Madison Heinrich followed with another single to put runners on second and third. Jules Pliszka drove in the second Rams run with another RBI single. And finally, Jadyn Gulbinski drove in the final run of the inning with a ground out RBI. When the first inning ended, the Rams were up 3-0. Fortunately for Central Bucks West, Pennridge would not plate another run for the rest of the afternoon. The Rams would tie up the game by scoring single runs in three consecutive innings. Makala Burkholder led off the second inning for West with a double into the left center field gap. Burkholder came around to score on a dropped third strike and a throwing error by Pennridge. West score their second run of the day in the top of the third inning when Jill Boyle led off the inning with a double to dead center field and came around to score on an RBI single by Marley Swain. The third run for the Bucks came in the top of the fourth inning when Taylor Sheplock started the inning with a single to shallow left field. After advancing to second on a passed ball by the Rams, Sheplock scored when a Pennridge player misplayed a ball off the bat of Hailey Worthington. The next two innings did not produce runs for either team until West would score the go ahead run in their half of the seventh inning. In the seventh, Jill Boyle reached base on a Pennridge error. Boyle advanced to second on a well-placed sacrifice bunt off the bat of second baseman Addie McMackin. After the second out was made, catcher Sam Hooven came to bat with a chance to drive in the go ahead run for West. Hooven fouled off four pitches before hitting a single into shallow center field that scored Jill Boyle with the go ahead run for the Bucks. This was a pitcher's win for West as after getting out of the first inning Brielle Jenner would pitch another three and two-thirds inning without giving up a single run. Kendall Kornuszko was then called upon to finish out the game for West. Kornuszko would retire all eight batters she faced over the final two and two thirds innings. Kornuszko picked up the win for the Bucks in relief of starter Brielle Jenner. Madison Heinrich made a strong showing for Pennridge going the entire seven innings for the Rams and giving up only two earned runs on the day. Heinrich struck out five Bucks hitters and gave up only six hits in all. Central Bucks West won the contest by a final score of 4-3.