Princeton softball sweeps doubleheader over Hall: BCR Roundup for April 7, 2024

Softball

Princeton 17-15, Hall 2-0: The Tigresses cruised to a doubleheader sweep in Three Rivers East play in Spring Valley on Saturday.

Ellie Harp (2-4, two RBIs) and Avah Oertel each homered to power the Tigresses to a 17-2 win in Game 1. Keely Lawson, Sylvie Rutledge and Sam Woolley each added RBI hits behind winning pitcher Reese Reviglio (5 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K).

Charlie Pellegrini and Caroline Morris (two RBIs) each had two hits for Hall (1-3).

Oertel tossed a one-hit shutout for Princeton (5-2) in the nightcap. She also had two hits, including a double with three RBIs.

Harp, Woolley and Reviglio each had one hit with two RBIs while Izzy Gibson and Kiyrra Morris had a hit and one RBI. Makayla Hecht tripled and scored three runs and Neavah Briddick had a double.

Bureau Valley 11, Polo 1 (6 inn.): The Storm had nine hits while winning pitcher Carly Reglin struck out in a nonconference victory in six innings in Manlius.

Lesleigh Maynard and Kate Stoller (two RBIs) each had two hits for the Storm. Emily Wright homered and drove in two runs. Madison Smith, Kadyn Haage and Emma Stabler each had one hit with two RBIs while Emma Stull double.

Baseball

East Dubuque 13, St. Bede 3 (5 inn.): The Warriors struck for seven runs in the second inning and four more in the third on the way to defeating the Bruins in five innings at Lumber Kings Stadium in Clinton, Iowa.

Geno Ferrari (RBI), Gus Burr, Luke Tunnell and Alan Spencer all hit safely for the Bruins.

St. Bede starter Nathan Husser was tagged for the loss with 1.1 innings pitched.

The Bruins arrived in Clinton after spending the week in Tennessee.

Bureau Valley 16, Polo 1 (4 inn.): The Storm scored 16 runs on nine hits to cruise to a nonconference victory in four innings at home.

For BV, Landon Birdsley had three hits and two RBIs, Drake Taylor had two hits and two RBIs, and Bryce Helms (three RBIs), Blake Foster (three RBIs) and Elijah Endress (two RBIs) each added one hit.

Endress went three innings for the win with Foster putting the finishing touches on.

Girls soccer

At Princeton: Ava Hobson gave the Tigresses a 1-0 win over Sterling with the only score of the game in Saturday’s Princeton Tournament.

In other matches, PHS lost to Morris 3-1 and 5-1 to Beecher with Ruby Acker and Chloe Ostrowski having scoring honors.

Morris won the tournament on penalty kicks over Orion, one of four tournament matches decided by penalty kicks.

Boys track & field

Don Gooden Invite: Hall’s Caleb Bickett was the top area finisher in Saturday’s Don Gooden Invite at Mendota, sweeping the sprints with a time of 11.93 seconds in the 100 meters and 23.63 in the 200 meters.

He also led off the Red Devils’ fourth-place effort in the 4 x 100 relay (46.35) with Joseph Bacidore, Jeremy Smith and Gabe Wamhoff.

El Paso-Gridley topped Sandwich 109-83 to win the team title with only track events being held as the field events were cancelled due to wet grounds. Amboy co-op (34) was fourth, Bureau Valley (30.5) was sixth, Hall (30) was seventh and Princeton (27) was eighth.

For Princeton, Casey Etheridge was second in the 110m hurdles (18.52), Evan Driscoll was third in the 100 (12.21) and Tyler VandeVenter was fourth in the 3200 (11:02.23) and sixth in the 800 (2:18.56).

Brock Shane led Bureau Valley individually with a third-place finish in the 110m hurdles (18.52) and a fifth-place finish in the 300m hurdles (47.07) right behind teammate Andrew Roth, who was fourth in 46.42.

The Storm also placed third in the 4 x 800 relay (9:19.56) with Maddox Moore, Landon Hulsing, Alexander Gallardo and Zac Wiggim.

Amboy got a second-place finish from Joel Billhorn in the 400 (52.18) and a third from Josh McKendry in the 200 (24.57). The Clippers also placed second in the 4 x 100 relay (45.92) with McKendry, Billhorn, Ed Fry and Caleb Yanos and fourth in the 4x 200 (1:40.04) and 4 x 400 (3:50.46).

Girls track & field

Don Gooden Invite: Bureau Valley’s Maddie Wetzell and Princeton’s Camryn Driscoll led area athletes with first-place finishes at Mendota.

Driscoll won the 400 meters with a time of 1:02.29 and placed sixth in the 100m dash (13.77).

Wetzell took first in the 3200 (12:41.50) while placing third in the 1600 (5:55.99).

Bureau Valley tied Newark for third place with 69 points behind El Paso-Gridley (89) and Annawan-Wethersfield (72) at Mendota. Only track events were held with the field events cancelled due to wet grounds.

The Storm placed second in the 4 x 100 relay (52.43) and fourth in the 4 x 200 (1:52.67) on the legs of Connie Gibson, Taylor Neuhalfen, Kate Salisbury and McKinkley Canady.

Bureau Valley also claimed third in the 4 x 400 relay (4:31.14) with Emma Mussche, Kate Salisbury, Gibson and Lynzie Cady and placed fourth in the 4 x 800 relay (12:15.5) with Gemma Moore, Bella Birkey, Elizabeth Backer and Mussche.

Also for the Storm, Cady was third in the 400 (1:05.45), Gibson, was fourth in the 200 (28.06), Musche, was fourth in the 800 (2:48.42) and Canady, was fourth in the 100 (13.54), and fifth in the 200 (28.25),

For Amboy, Elly Jones was third in the 100 hurdles (17.90) and Maddie Althaus was fourth in the 400 (1:06.03),

Princeton placed fifth in the 4 x 800 relay (12:19.87) with Avery Waca, Rylee Backes, Rebekah Lord and Alexandra Waca.