The Carolina Blaze will become North Carolina’s latest professional women’s sports team beginning this June. On Tuesday, the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) named Durham as the home of the Carolina Blaze, one of six city-based professional women’s softball teams. The announcement comes after the AUSL’s breakout inaugural season in 2025. The league brought pro […]
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Year in review — Top stories of 2025: Blue Devils advance to semifinals, local link to World Series
Editor’s note: The Meadville Tribune is re-visiting the top eight Crawford County-area sports stories from 2025. The series begins today and continues Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Two stories will run per day in no particular order. Cambridge Springs advances to state semifinals Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement The 2025 Cambridge Springs Blue Devils softball team had a […]
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Rockwood senior to play soccer at Waynesburg University
ROCKWOOD, Pa. – Rockwood Area High School senior goalkeeper Taylor Demchak burst onto the scene as a freshman on the pitch. Demchak posted 10 shutouts as the Rockets finished as District 5 Class 1A runners-up in 2022 and advanced to the PIAA tournament. She became a mainstay in front of the net as the totaled […]
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Preston High Bryson McNew named 2025 Johnny Bench Award recipient as state's best catcher
KINGWOOD – Preston High School baseball’s Bryson McNew was selected as the 2025 Johnny Bench Award winner as the top catcher in West Virginia. The award is given to the top baseball and softball catcher from the NCAA, as well as the four best high school catchers from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and West Virginia. The […]
Read MorePoster Player of the Season: Olivia Warriner of Glacier High
This week we are highlighting the Spring poster player of the season sponsored by Corwin Motors, which goes to Olivia Warriner of the Glacier Wolfpack. [embedded content] Olivia was a force on the diamond all season, ranking second in the state in home runs with 10 and RBIs with 46. She also was top 10 […]
Read MoreNewton softball falls twice to No. 3 DCG
DALLAS CENTER — Chloe Swank and Ava Williams had a pair of hits and Mack Sims reached base twice, but the Newton softball team dropped a pair of Little Hawkeye Conference games to Dallas Center-Grimes on Wednesday. The Cardinals were limited to one hit in the opener of a doubleheader against the Class 4A No. […]
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Southland battery leads All-Herald Softball Team
Southland battery leads All-Herald Softball Team Published 5:38 pm Friday, June 20, 2025 1 of 2 Laney Weis winds up for the Rebels. Rocky Hulne/sports@austindailyherald.com Hayfield’s Nora Bamlet connects on a pitch in Hayfield this season. Rocky Hulne/sports@austindailyherald.com Laney Weis, pitcher, Southland The sophomore went 19-4 overall in the circle with an ERA of 2.47. […]
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University's Olivia Masoner named 2025 first team all-state catcher after return from season-ending injury a year ago
MORGANTOWN – The 2024 University High School softball team will forever be remembered for its run that captured the program’s first-ever state championship. With so many pieces contributing to the completion of the Hawks’ puzzle in 2024, one outstanding one was missing in catcher Olivia Masoner, who suffered a head/neck injury that sidelined her for […]
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Class S softball semifinal: St. Paul has a big sixth inning, beats Hale-Ray
WILLIMANTIC – Through the first four innings of the Class S softball semifinal Monday night, St. Paul could not hit Hale-Ray pitcher Lily Jahne. She had seven strikeouts, and only one St. Paul runner reached base, on an error. But the momentum shifted in the fifth inning. A sophomore led off with a triple and […]
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H.S. Softball: Mid Valley shut out in Class 3A state semifinals
Mid Valley mustered just two hits Monday as Pine Grove ended the Spartans’ season with a 3-0 win in a PIAA Class 3A state softball semifinal game at Hazleton Area High School. District 2 champion Mid Valley (22-4), which won the state championship in 2023, was shut out for the second time this season. Tunkhannock […]
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H.S. Softball: Valley View uses walk-off single to head to state title game
Abbi Call hit an RBI single with one out in the bottom of the seventh as Valley View edged Northwestern Lehigh 5-4 Monday in a PIAA Class 4A softball semifinal game at Hazleton Area High School. District 2 champion Valley View (23-2) will play for the state title at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Penn State […]
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Wahine name LBSU associate as their new softball coach
Panita Thanatharn, an associate head coach at Long Beach State, was named the fourth head coach of the University of Hawaii softball program, acting athletics director Lois Manin announced on Wednesday. Thanatharn replaces Bob Coolen, who coached the Rainbow Wahine for 34 seasons and retired following the 2025 season. “I’m just super pumped to get […]
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PIAA Class 3A softball: Pine Grove downs Kutztown in extra innings
A never-give-up attitude helped carry Kutztown into the state quarterfinals. The Cougars showed their resiliency Monday by mounting one of the most improbable comebacks in the school’s storied softball history. But the roles were reversed on a sweltering Thursday afternoon at Exeter against Pine Grove in a PIAA Tournament Class 3A game. Trailing by four […]
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Keeping Score: State champs, record breakers, and end of year accolades
Welcome everybody to the Keeping Score podcast presented by Corwin Motors, I am Josh Amick. The spring season ended last week but I was traveling across country so this episode I am going to recap the highlights from the state tournaments for baseball, softball track & field as well as tennis, and next week we […]
Read MoreHigh school softball: Kenton Ridge's storybook season ends with state championship
After winning its 32nd straight game, the unbeaten Cougars are state champions for the first time in school history. Top-ranked and unbeaten Kenton Ridge scored seven runs in the third inning en route to a 9-0 win over Hillsboro in the Division IV state championship game on Thursday afternoon at Akron Firestone Stadium. “It comes […]
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Newton softball falls to rival Oskaloosa
OSKALOOSA — Mack Sims homered and the Cardinals did not commit an error, but the Newton softball team suffered a narrow loss to Oskaloosa on Wednesday. The rival Indians took a two-run lead in the second inning and plated the winning run in the fifth during a 3-2 victory in Little Hawkeye Conference play. Makenzly […]
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