Pequea Valley's softball team won 6-0 at Northern Lebanon in a Section Three and Four crossover contest on Wednesday April 14. Olivia Ammon set a season high with her 15 strikeouts and went 2-for-4 at the plate with a run batted in.

"We got two in the first inning and three in the seventh," Doug High, the PV head coach, pointed out. "Olivia got out of a bases loaded jam with one out in the sixth inning," High explained. "We got out of that jam and it was huge. We were only up 3-0 at the time."

In manufacturing runs, High utilized the suicide squeeze three times in this game.

"I used it three times tonight," he explained. "The base runner from third gets a good jump and the batter puts the ball in play.

"Madison Clark had a double and two RBI's," added the coach, listing his team's highlights. "Sarah Arment went 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Olivia Ammon was 2-for-4 with one RBI. Hailey Yothers went 1-for-2 with two RBI's - a sacrifice fly and a suicide bunt.

The closest Ammon had come this year to her 15-strikeout total was the high of 12 earlier in the year against Oley Valley. She also struck out 11 Hamburg batters once this year.

The Braves had a 15-0 win over Columbia on Monday.

"I took out a couple of starters and put in other kids," High explained, "trying to see who can step up.

"The girls showed they can win when they are down one because one of our starters was sick.

"We just have to keep hitting the ball hard and score a few runs."

Pequea earned an 18-0, six inning win over Lancaster Mennonite Friday, April 9. A nine hit offense, combined with six errors and 13 walks helped account for the scoring.

Ammon struck out nine, walked two and gave up just one hit in Pequea's third shutout of the season.

BASEBALL

The Pequea Valley baseball team won its third straight game, defeating league rival Columbia 5-3 on the road Monday afternoon. The Braves improved to 3-1 on the year (2-1 league). The Crimson Tide fell to 1-5 (0-3 league).

Three days earlier in a Friday afternoon home game, the Braves outslugged the Lancaster Mennonite Blazers 12-7 in another Section Four contest. With runs scored in every inning but the seventh, Pequea broke a 4-4 tie with three runs in the third, gave up three in the top of the fourth but pulled away with three in the fifth and one more in the sixth.

Monday, April 13, they dropped a 12-0 result at Mount Calvary.

TENNIS

Pequea's 4-1 non-league victory over Exeter on Tuesday was the team's eighth straight win. The Braves improved to 8-1 (5-1 league) with the only loss coming to Lancaster Catholic in the opening of the season, leaving the Braves one game behind Catholic in the Section Three standings.

In the non-league win over Exeter, Pequea won both doubles matches and two of three singles. Nehemiah Glick and Jazae Itegi won 6-4, 6-1 at first doubles while Samuel Arena and Jeol Peifer got PV a second team point with a 7-5, 7-5 win.

Brady Burns (6-4, 6-1) and Wade Stoltzfus (6-4, 6-0) came through at number one and three singles, respectively.

Pequea's previous match was a 7-0 defeat of Octorara at home on Monday.

The first two doubles were 8-0 victories for the PV Braves - first for Burns and Jarvis and second for Jazae Itegi and Joel Peifer.

Jarvis (6-3, 7-5), Stoltzfus (6-1, 6-0), Glick (6-2, 6-0) and Jazae Itegi claimed the fourth singles 6-2, 6-0.

In their 6-1 triumph at Lancaster Mennonite the previous week, the Braves had Burns playing fourth single but Glick and Itegi led off for the Braves at doubles. Burns and Jarvis repeated Glick and Itzegi's 8-1 win with an 8-1 victory of their own. Stoltzfus and Arena also won 8-1.

The winners in straight sets for the first two singles matches were Glick and Stoltzfus. Burns won at number four singles in straight sets (6-1, 6-0) but Jarvis fell short 5-7, 6-3, 6-10.