Rally lifts SAHS

BERNE — The Starfires’ seven-game winning streak was on the verge of ending.

A 6-2 deficit after the first two innings appeared too much to overcome.

A late rally kept the streak alive.

The South Adams High School softball team scored six straight runs on Monday to push its winning streak to eight games with an 8-6 rally over the Fort Recovery Indians.

Fort Recovery (9-9) took a 3-2 lead after the first inning and pushed the score to 6-2 in the second. But the Starfires (10-1) slowly started to chip away. They scored once in the fourth inning and twice in the fifth and three times in the sixth for the come-from-behind win.

Kayla LeFever led South Adams with three hits, while Taylor Augsburger, Anna Nussbaum and Mallory Hirschy each doubled and singled as well. Jenna Myers collected a pair of singles as well.

Lydia Wenning blasted her eighth home run of the season while driving home three runs. 

Nussbaum threw the final five innings for SAHS, didn’t allow a hit and struck out 10 to get the win.



Stars top Rebels

BERNE — Two early runs was all the South Adams baseball team needed in a 4-1 win over Randolph Southern on Monday at Harry F. Anderson Field.

South Adams (9-2), which is ranked sixth in the Class 2A poll, took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning and plated the eventual game-winning run in the second.

Randolph Southern cut the deficit in half in the top of the fifth, but South Adams added two insurance runs in the home half of the frame.

Grant Besser and Grady Sprunger doubled for the Starfires. AJ Dull collected three singles, while Nick Miller and Alex Gorney singled as well.