Perkiomen Valley High School
Boyertown Bears softball team heads to the States for the first time since 1996.
The Perkiomen Valley Vikings softball team were determined to stand in the way of rival Boyertown Bears quest to the PIAA Championships Tuesday night at the District 1-6A playback game, but, in the end, they were defeated by one run.
According to The Mercury, Boyertown’s 17-16 victory over Perkiomen Valley in the Pioneer Athletic Conference battle means the Bears head to the final showdown for the first time since 1996.
By the bottom of the sixth, the Bears came back triumphantly from a 7-0 deficit with 15 runs scored over three innings, more than doubling their rivals’ scoreboard. Then, according to the report, the Vikings were not going to be challenged and rallied back with eight more runs to tie the game 15-15.
Perkiomen Valley Vikings softball ends their season with a 20-5 record; last year, they were 9-12 at the end of the season.
Standouts for Perkiomen Valley included seniors Ashley and Erin Carosi, Gianna Corropolese, Morgan Haywood, Denise Hurd, Audrey Powers, and Bella Reedy, per the report. Reedy hit two doubles and four RBIs, and junior pitcher Maci Strechay was 2-for-3, per the report, giving up eight runs on seven hits in the first five innings.
Second baseman Reedy stepped in to relieve Strechay, but had seven runs on seven hits, per the article.
“We’re way beyond where I honestly anticipated at this time,” first-year head coach Mickey Marsilio told The Mercury. “States wasn’t even in the conversation when the season started. Winning the PAC wasn’t even in the conversation when the season started. To win a district game, to make it a couple hits away from advancing into States, to hang a banner that says PAC champions in the first year, it’s a great sendoff for the seniors.”
Read more on the playback game here.
