Pennsville uses a big inning to overcome a rough start, beats host team in quarterfinals of LL Senior Softball East Regionals

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

WORCESTER, Mass. – Pennsville scored its third straight run-rule win of this Little League Senior Softball Regional here Monday night, but you never would have figured it the way it all started.

But given the way the Eagles – we’ll call them that now — swing the bat, maybe you would.

Pennsville beat host Massachusetts District 4 17-5. They fell behind a team that had not scored a run in pool play 5-0 in the second inning, climbed back into it with one rally in the second, then erupted for nine runs in the third inning to finally breathe easier.

“That was a little scary to start,” manager Chris Watson said. “We kind of got punched in the face the first couple innings. We weren’t quite expecting them to have all that they did.

“They had some really good hitters at the top of the order. They had a great pitcher. They seemed like one of the most competitive teams in the region. I don’t know where that came from … It was a battle and a real test. We got caught by surprise, frankly.”

The New Jersey champs now play Smyrna, Del., in the East Regional semifinals Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. They beat Delaware 14-1 Sunday to clinch the No. 1 seed in the Mid-Atlantic pool, but have yet to face the First Staters’ top two pitchers. It was a Delaware team – not this one – that knocked them out of the tournament last year.

Early on, it looked like the Eagles might not even make it back. 

The game couldn’t have started in a worse way. Jess Bretz continued to struggle in the circle and was lifted in the first inning for third time here. Mass-D4, who were no-hit in their regional opener and had only five hits in their three pool games, batted around and scored four runs without the benefit of a hit.

Bretz faced six batters, walking three and hitting two. A third run scored when a pitch got away and another scored while Pennsville was throwing it around. They cut down another runner at the plate to keep another run from scoring. The hosts added another run in the second.

In her three regional starts Bretz has faced 16 batters in 2/3 of an inning, but walked six and hit eight. Watson isn’t giving up on his ace because he knows what’s there. Bretz spun three no-hitters and a two-hitter on the road to get here.

“When I warm up I’m having good bullpens and I’m mentally in the game, but, especially today, I wasn’t mentally prepared for the game throughout the day,” Bretz said. “Even before we stepped on the field I was down on myself. I wasn’t in a positive mindset to help my team get where we needed to be. I think it’s the days leading up to it where I’m not confident in myself and I need to fix that.”

Kloi Tighe relieved Bretz again and finished the game. She allowed one run, four hits and struck out three over the final 4 2/3 innings it took to finish it. In her four relief outings behind Bretz this tournament season, including her stint in the state title game, Tighe has thrown 14 innings, allowing three earned runs, walking one and striking out 18. 

She also pitched a five-inning, complete-game three-hitter in her regional start against the team Pennsville faces Tuesday.

“When you asked if I was nervous, (it was) a little bit less because I know I have Kloi standing out there in left field ready to come in and show it,” Watson said. “I’m always very confident we can shut things down in a hurry if it doesn’t work out, of course, with our original plan.”

“Having Kloi here means the world to me,” Bretz said. “Last year she had other priorities and  she didn’t make it until the States games, so I had the long innings in the sectionals. Having somebody to back me up when I have bad innings or bad days or bad weeks like I’m having right now it’s amazing. We kind of altered her schedule to help us and she’s being very selfless about it. I’m really happy she’s here and I’m sure the rest of our team is really happy she’s here, too.”

After being held scoreless in the first inning by Ava Grant, a left-hander with velocity who had only thrown one inning prior to Monday, Pennsville’s hitters batted around each of the next three innings to regain control of the game. They finished with 14 hits in the game and are batting a whopping .423 for the regional.

Pennsville finally got on the board when Savannah Palverento scored from second on an infield error. The Eagles proceeded to load the bases with two outs and scored three more runs when the hosts misplayed Kylie Harris’ bases-loaded grounder, Bretz drew a bases-loaded walk and Bella Rappa singled.

Fourteen batters came to the plate in the third and there were eight hits. They loaded the bases with one out and before the inning was over Leadoff Lily Edwards and Rappa each had two-run singles, Bretz and Palverento each had two-run doubles and Tighe’s RBI single – her second hit of the inning – completed the scoring. Edwards’ two-run single put Pennsville up for good, 6-5.

“I think I’m more proud of my team for pulling me out of it than I am of (her own hits) because I wouldn’t be able to do it without everyone else backing me up,” Bretz said. “They were clutch hits, but we consistently get the hits when we need them. Whenever we fall behind I trust every single girl in our lineup to get a hit when we need to.”

“They always managed to do that,” Watson said. “They get the energy going and the hitting gets contagious and they start these rallies. It doesn’t matter if there’s no outs, two outs …”

“I never doubted it,” Edwards said. “I know we can come back from any score. We can just pass the bat along. I don’t know how we do it, but we do it.”

Edwards, who drove 13 hours overnight Sunday to rejoin the team after playing in a national travel ball tournament in South Carolina, went 3-for-5 with two RBIs. Rappa was 2-for-3 with three RBIs, Palverento 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Bretz 2-for-3 with five RBIs.

“It’s so good (to be back),” Edwards said. “I missed the energy of the team.”

And she adds a lot to it.

SENIOR MOMENTS: Delaware walked off Massachusetts 5-4, rallying from a 4-0 deficit in the final two innings and ending it with two in the bottom of the seventh … Maryland held off Connecticut 13-11, hold their breath through an eight-run seventh inning. They’ll play Rhode Island, an 13-0 winner over Pennsylvania. 

Pennsville 17, Massachusetts D4 5
Mass D4      420 00 –  5   4   4
Pennsville   049 4x – 17  14   1
WP: Kloi Tighe (4-0). LP: Ava Grant. 2B: Savannah Palverento 2 (P), Jess Bretz (P), Mia Girardi (M). HR: Jess Bretz (P).

LITTLE LEAGUE SENIOR SOFTBALL
East Regional, Worcester, Mass.
Pool A (New England): Connecticut (Bristol), Host (Mass D4/Worcester), Massachusetts (Marblehead), Rhode Island (Warwick North)
Pool B (Mid-Atlantic): Delaware (Smyrna/Clayton), Maryland (Havre de Grace), New Jersey (Pennsville), Pennsylvania (Stroudsburg)
Monday’s games
Rhode Island 13, Pennsylvania 0 (Pa. eliminated)
Delaware 5, Massachusetts 4 (Mass. eliminated)
Maryland 13, Connecticut 11 (Conn. eliminated)
Pennsville LL 17, Host (Mass D4) 5 (Host eliminated)
Tuesday’s games
Semifinals
Rhode Island vs. Maryland, 5:30 p.m.
Delaware vs. Pennsville, 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s game
Championship, 1 p.m.

UPDATED: New Jersey Senior Softball champs breathe a sigh of relief after coming from behind twice to beat Maryland

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

WORCESTER, Mass. – As experienced as the team is at these things by now and should be comfortable with the surroundings, it took a little while for the Pennsville Senior Softball All-Stars to get used to this stage.

Pennsville, looking to claim the region title they felt got away from them last year, won their opening game in the Little League Senior Softball East Regional here Saturday, beating high-powered Havre de Grace, Md., 13-7, but it took a while for them to get going.

They fell behind twice early, rallied to tie it both times, then took advantage of the Marylanders’ shoddy infield defense to ultimately pull away. 

They trailed 2-0 in the first inning and 4-2 in the third, tied the game both times, then took the lead with two runs in the fifth. They added two in the sixth and broke it open with five in the seventh. It was more than enough cushion to withstand Maryland’s mini-uprising in the home seventh.

They will play Smyrna, Del. (3:30 p.m.) and Stroudsburg, Pa. (6 p.m.) in their final two Mid-Atlantic pool play games Sunday. Delaware beat Pennsylvania in the first pool game of the day, 11-1.

“I feel like maybe we weren’t used to playing a competitive team,” third baseman Bella Farina said of the slow start. “In sectionals we didn’t really have much competition. It always takes us a little bit to get in our groove and we always give everybody anxiety.”

Pennsville starting pitcher Jess Bretz really had trouble getting out of the gate and manager Chris Watson lifted her for Kloi Tighe after six batters and 18 pitches in the first inning. Tighe got out of the bases-loaded jam she was introduced to with a strikeout and fly out and then went the rest of the way. She gave up nine hits, three earned runs and struck out seven in her 6 2/3 innings.

At the finish, Maryland scored two runs in the seventh and had bases loaded with one out, but Tighe shut the door with a strikeout and a pop to the infield. She also pitched the last 2 1/3 behind Bretz Tuesday night to lock down Pennsville’s state championship game win.

“I didn’t expect him to put me in to pitch at that time, but I knew he wanted to get the win,” Tighe said. “I’ve been put in pressure situations a lot with travel and I pitched school games like that, so I was OK other it being super hot. It was really hot today.”

Part of Bretz’ trouble Saturday may have been the absence of her regular catcher Kylie Harris. Harris and Leadoff Lily Edwards, the regular first two hitters in their lineup, both missed the game.

Harris usually calls pitches and moves the defense, but without her Tighe made her first start behind the plate since fall ball three years ago and even then “it wasn’t for a lot of innings.” When Tighe went to the circle, Graillyn Weber came in to catch and, Tighe said, “we worked together to make it work.”

“Birdie’s (Weber’s) hand was hurting so I was like I can try (to start off catching) because we really didn’t have anyone else to do it, but it really wasn’t working out for us,” Tighe said. “If was definitely different for (Bretz) because she had me behind the plate and I don’t catch. I kind of felt bad for her because I really wasn’t helping her much, but we really didn’t have a choice. At that point, that was the best we had.”

Bella Rappa and Bella Farina led the offense with three hits apiece, Bretz ripped a pair of doubles and Havre de Grace helped them with 10 errors. Pennsville’s last three runs came on a dropped fly ball with the bases loaded.

The New Jersey champs tied the game the first time with a two-out rally in the third. Bretz got it started with a double. Rappa followed with an RBI single and went to second on the third and scored on Farina’s RBI single.

They tied it the second time in the fourth. Pinch-hitters Kam Garron and Audrey Claybourne opened the inning with a walk and single, respectively, and Tighe sacrificed them up a base. Special pinch runner Gina Shinn, a special pinch-runner for Garron, slid around the throw on Savannah Palverento’s sacrifice fly to make it 4-3 and and Claybourne scored the tying run when Maryland dropped Bretz’ pop up in the infield that would’ve ended the inning.

They took the lead in the fifth  Avery Watson got it started when she took one for the team with one out. Sawyer Simmons then hit a ball that died right before first base line and the throw to get her was dropped at first.

Watson took off for third and that throw was wild allowing her to sprint home with the go-ahead run. Simmons took second and then went to third on a wild pitch. Another run scored when Maryland couldn’t hold the throw Palverento’s grounder to short.

“I think it just gets us going,” Farina said of finally breaking the ice. “It hypes us up and we all get excited and we all just feed off that. That’s when we get all the good hits.”

Maryland bounced back from its loss to beat Pennsylvania 10-1 in its second game of the night. The first six hitters in Maryland’s lineup all had at least two hits.

Pennsville 002 222 5 – 13 10 3
Maryland 202 001 2 – 7 12 10
WP: Kloi Tighe (2-0). LP. Lilly Dalton. 2B: Jess Bretz 2 (P), Bella Rappa (P), Katie Burr (M).

DELAWARE 11, PENNSYLVANIA 1: Smyrna gave Stroudsburg a taste of its own medicine, scoring double-figure runs for the seventh time in seven tournament games to run-rule a team that had won each of its previous seven tournament games by the run rule.

Alexis Dennis led Delaware with four hits and five RBIs while spinning a two-hitter with 13 strikeouts in the circle. Pennsylvania hadn’t given up a run in its previous four games and came in with a streak of 21 scoreless innings, a streak that ended at 23 when Dennis ripped a two-run double in the third.

Pennsville plays both teams Sunday.

LITTLE LEAGUE SENIOR SOFTBALL
East Regional, Worcester, Mass.
Pool A (New England): Connecticut (Bristol), Host (Mass D4/Worcester), Massachusetts (Marblehead), Rhode Island (Warwick North)
Pool B (Mid-Atlantic): Delaware (Smyrna/Clayton), Maryland (Havre de Grace), New Jersey (Pennsville), Pennsylvania (Stroudsburg)
Saturday’s games
Delaware 11, Pennsylvania 1
Massachusetts 11, Host (Mass D4) 0
Pennsville LL 13, Maryland 7
Massachusetts 8, Connecticut 2
Maryland 10, Pennsylvania 1
Rhode Island 10, Host (Mass D4) 0
Sunday’s games
Massachusetts (2-0) vs. Rhode Island (1-0), 1 p.m.
Maryland (1-1) vs. Delaware (1-0), 1 p.m.
Connecticut (0-1) vs. Rhode Island, 3:30 p.m.
Delaware vs. Pennsville LL (1-0), 3:30 p.m.
Host (Mass D4) (0-2) vs. Connecticut, 6 p.m.
Pennsylvania (0-2) vs. Pennsville LL, 6 p.m.
Monday’s games
1A vs. 4B, 5 p.m.
2A vs. 3B, 5 p.m.
2B vs. 3A, 8 p.m.
1B vs. 4A, 8 p.m.
Tuesday’s games
Semifinals
1A-4B winner vs. 2B-3A winner, 5:30 p.m.
2A-3B winner vs. 1B-4A winner, 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s game
Championship, 1 p.m.

File photo of Pennsville manager Chris Watson and Kloi Tighe from a game earlier this season by Lorraine Jenkins

Pennsville Senior Softball heading to Little League East Regional looking to get what they couldn’t close out last year

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

PENNSVILLE – Most of the teams headed to Massachusetts this week for the Little League Senior Softball East Regional might have a message like “Delaware or Bust” scrawled across their caravan windows. There is really only one theme the Pennsville LL All-Stars are carrying: Unfinished business.

The New Jersey champions were on the verge of reaching the region championship game last year when the unthinkable happened. They lost a 10-run lead late in the game and it sent them on an excruciating six-hour drive back home thinking about all that could have been.

It’s a memory that has burned in the souls of all the returning players for an entire year. Now they have a chance for redemption back at the same place in the same regional that begins Saturday.

“We’re 100 percent focused on this,” Pennsville manager Chris Watson said. “It was a huge letdown last year. We felt like we were good enough to go beyond the East Region and we fell short. We have spent the last 12 months trying to get back there every day. Nick Rappa passing away, that’s a big driver, too. The girls have their motivation.”

Pennsville was six outs away from run-ruling Camden/Wyoming, Del., to earn a spot in the championship game that would follow last year when it all fell apart. The Delaware champs, who Pennsville beat in pool play earlier in the week, scored once in the home fourth to keep the game alive, plated seven in the bottom of the fifth to set Pennsville on its heels and then got four more in the sixth to complete the comeback and break Pennsville’s heart.

But instead of wallowing in the loss, they changed their mindset and jumped right back into the batting cage as soon as they got back in town to work out their frustrations.

“We always like to say we have unfinished business because of it,” shortstop Avery Watson said. “I do strongly believe that because we had it in the bag, (then) something happened and it just slipped out.

“It really motivates us because it’s going to be almost the same teams up there; everybody is just one year older. It’s going to be a bunch of the same girls and we want to hand it to them like we could have last year.”

“All of us, especially the Bellas (Farina and Rappa), have a fire in them,” catcher Kylie Harris said. “We have something to prove.”

Pennsville lost only two players off that team and added three more – four, if you include Savannah Palverento who was part of the team last year but missed the regional due to injury. Palverento hit the game-winning homer in the state title game comeback Tuesday night.

So, it’s basically the same team they took to regionals last year, but it’s different.

“They just matured,” Watson said. “I know it’s only been a year, but they matured like five years – and probably that night.

“You saw it on Tuesday night (when they trailed twice in the state title game). They didn’t get rattled. They got rattled last year. We were just 100 percent rattled last year and gave it up. This year they faced a lot of adversity, a lot of moments they could have gotten rattled, and they really didn’t.”

“A lot of our attitudes have changed,” Avery Watson said. “A big part of that is because of what happened last year. We’re more motivated now and more driven to finish what we had left up there.”

This year, they were placed in a five-team Mid-Atlantic pool with Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York, but late Wednesday night Watson learned the New York entry had withdrawn, forcing a major shift in the pool’s schedule.

They still will open the regional against Havre de Grace, Md., on Saturday, but now wrap up pool play with a doubleheader Sunday against Smyrna, Del., and Stroudsburg, Pa. The knockout rounds that now include all eight teams start Monday.

“We have deep pitching, so I think we have an advantage over some of those others teams when it comes to that and we lose that now in the tournament section,” Watson said. “The single-elimination tournament was a doubleheader for the championship on Wednesday. It’s just been reduced to one game per day so I guess we might lose an advantage there, if we had one. It kind of makes pool play almost irrelevant now.”

The Maryland team Pennsville opens with is 6-0 in the tournament with five run-rule wins. They’ve outscored their opponents 80-8 and pitcher Lilly Dalton has allowed only one earned run in 29 innings and struck out 47.

The top of the lineup has blazing speed – they opened the state title game with an inside-the-park homer and triple – and there’s plenty of pop throughout. Leadoff hitter Bayleigh Carstetter is 7-for-15 with 19 runs and Dayley Veres is 10-for-20 with 15 runs. The pop comes next with Kinsey Mentzer (12-for-21, 2 HRs, 10 RBIs); Dalton (.529, 14 RBIs); Katie Burr (.313) and Sarah Weitzel (.450, 7 RBIs).

The Delaware champs are 5-1 in the tournament, with three run-rule wins and 10 runs or more in every game. Isabella Mancini has thrown two no-hitters.

The Pennsylvania champion is 7-0 with seven run-rule wins. They haven’t allowed a run in their last four games and are working on a 21-inning scoreless streak.

“They all look like strong teams,” Watson said. “We’ve had a chance to watch all three of the teams play via video, but they all look strong, strong pitching in the zone – obviously none of them give up a lot of runs – good defense and they have dangerous base runners. We’re going to play the same that got us there.”

“I think we have to be ready for anything,” Avery Watson said. “We’re obviously going to see a lot more competition up there. We have to be prepared to make more comebacks like we did our last game. It’s going to happen a lot because from what we’ve seen on video they’re very talented teams and everybody is going up there to go all the way. Everybody wants to win it. We just have to want it more.”

NOTES: All four teams in the Pennsville pool can be found on the Gamechanger app: Pennsville Seniors 2023, HdG LL Seniors, SCLL Senior All Stars, Stroudsburg Seniors All-Star … As of 7 p.m. Thursday night, the Pennsville Senior Softball Regional GoFundMe page has raised $1,850 of its $2,500 goal … The regional winner punches a ticket to the Senior Softball World Series in Roxana, Del., July 31-Aug. 6. The East’s pool there includes Asia-Pacific, Host Delaware District 3, Latina America and Southwest and they open against the host team. 

LITTLE LEAGUE SENIOR SOFTBALL
East Regional, Worcester, Mass.
Pool A (New England): Connecticut (Bristol), Host (Mass D4/Worcester), Massachusetts (Marblehead), Rhode Island (Warwick North)
Pool B (Mid-Atlantic): Delaware (Smyrna/Clayton), Maryland (Havre de Grace), New Jersey (Pennsville), Pennsylvania (Stroudsburg)
Saturday’s games
Opening ceremonies, 9 a.m.
Pennsylvania vs. Delaware, 11 a.m.
Massachusetts vs. Host, 11 a.m.
Maryland vs. Pennsville LL, 1:30 p.m.
Connecticut vs. Massachusetts, 1:30 p.m.
Pennsylvania vs. Maryland, 3 p.m.
Host vs. Rhode Island, 3 p.m.
Sunday’s games
Massachusetts vs. Rhode Island, 1 p.m.
Maryland vs. Delaware, 1 p.m.
Connecticut vs. Rhode Island, 3:30 p.m.
Delaware vs. Pennsville LL, 3:30 p.m.
Host vs. Connecticut, 6 p.m.
Pennsylvania vs. Pennsville LL, 6 p.m.
Monday’s games
1A vs. 4B, 5 p.m.
2A vs. 3B, 5 p.m.
2B vs. 3A, 8 p.m.
1B vs. 4A, 8 p.m.
Tuesday’s games
Semifinals
1A-4B winner vs. 2B-3A winner, 5:30 p.m.
2A-3B winner vs. 1B-4A winner, 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s game
Championship, 1 p.m.

Pennsville LL Senior Softball All-Stars rally twice to beat District One for state title, heading back to Massachusetts for regionals

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

MORRIS PLAINS – Pennsville’s senior softball all-stars hadn’t faced much – if any – adversity in their first six games of the State Little League Tournament ladder, but they had all of it they could handle Tuesday night.

And handle it they did.

Pennsville came behind twice in the middle innings against Morris County District One – the only times they had trailed at any stage in the tournament – and beat their nemesis 8-7 to win their second straight state title and earn a berth back to the East Regionals.

The victory sends them back to Worcester, Mass., where they’ll look to exorcise some demons from a year ago. They’ll face Maryland champion Havre de Grace in their first game of pool play Saturday.

“We handled it well,” Pennsville manager Chris Watson said of the adversity. “Nobody lost control. Nobody backed away. They all faced it full on and they did their jobs. They executed and they came back hard.

“A lot of these girls have been together for several years and we have played from behind in the past, we have walk-off wins in our history, so they don’t back away … I didn’t really have any worries. I was nervous, I didn’t want to have to play a second game here tonight, but, no, I didn’t have any concerns about that.”

Pennsville trailed 2-0 in the fourth and 7-4 in the fifth but rallied in the bottom of each inning to assume the lead.

Savannah Palverento delivered twice to give the District 3 and Section 4 champs the lead. She had a two-run triple in the fourth to put them ahead 3-2 and the go-ahead solo homer in the fifth to make it 8-7.

“With the triple I knew we needed to get our energy up,” she said. “I went into the dugout and said this isn’t how we play  this isn’t how we play, this isn’t Pennsville, this isn’t the Pennsville that gets tight, chokes and that’s not us, that’s not how we play. I was just looking to get on base. I don’t care what she threw because my at-bat before that was really bad. I needed to get on base and find a way to do it.

“On the homer my mind was kind of blank. I didn’t think at all. There were no thoughts going through my head when I hit that. I probably started tearing up when I touched home plate.”

Jess Bretz set the stage of Palverento’s heroics when she blasted a three-run shot on the first pitch she saw in the fifth to tie the game 7-7. It was her first at bat after being replaced in the circle in the top half of the inning and came after Avery Watson drew a four-pitch leadoff walk and Kylie Harris singled.

“That ball was at least 250 feet; she crushed it,” manager Watson said. “A lot of pitchers struggle and give up the lead, they’re going to be a mess the next time they come up. She was the third batter to come up and just absolutely unfazed crushed the ball and tied the game. Again, they’re unfazed. They don’t mind adversity. They don’t let the pressure get to them.”

“I’ve played with Jess a long time,” Palverento said. “She likes to say if she’s pitching she’s not going to do well hitting and if she’s not pitching she’ll do very well hitting. The second she gets pulled off the mound she hits a three-run home run.”

Kloi Tighe gave a masterful relief performance in the circle behind Bretz to get the win.

Making just her second appearance in the circle this tournament season, Tighe came in after the hosts stretched their lead to 7-4, but she got the last out of the inning with the first of her four strikeouts and then completed 2 1/3 innings of one-hit relief. She struck out the final batter of the game on three pitches with the tying run on third base.

“She came in and she did her job,” Watson said. “She was hitting her spots like I’ve never seen her hit her spots before. There might have been one or two called balls; she was just in the zone. Totally unfazed.”

“We were trailing when I came in and I knew I had to come in and step up for the team,” Tighe said. “I knew I had my teammates behind me. I wasn’t really worried about it because I knew we were able to hit two more times. I just knew I had to throw strikes and I have my teammates behind me.”

SENIOR MOMENTS: It’ll be a quick turnaround for the team. It leaves for Worcester Friday. Organizers will put together a GoFundMe page to help fundraise for the trip … Bretz faced the minimum in the circle through the first 3 1/3 innings, thanks in part to Harris cutting down two runners on the bases … Last year, Pennsville was in the driver’s seat in the regional final when a 10-run inning proved their undoing. “It is the theme,” Watson said. “It’s already come up a couple times from the girls that we have unfinished business up there. We need to go up there and be serious about making some noise.”

NJLL Senior Softball 
Championship Game
Morris Plains  000 250 0 – 7   3  1
Pennsville       000 440 x – 8 10  1 
WP: Kloi Tighe (1-0). LP: Leah Scalzo (2-2). 2B: Abby Herzog (MP). 3B: Savannah Palverento (P). HR: Jess Bretz (P), Savannah Palverento (P).

Pennsville (NJ) Regional Schedule
at Worcester, Mass.
July 22 – Maryland (Havre de Grace), 1:30 p.m.
July 23 – Delaware (Smyrna), 6 p.m. 
July 24 – Pennsylvania (Stroudsburg), 5 p.m.
July 24 – New York (Warwick), 8 p.m.
July 25 – Quarterfinals
July 26 – Semifinals
July 26 – Finals