By Dom Reed

LEWISTOWN – The Mifflin County Huskies Softball team welcomed in Cumberland Valley Eagles for a conference showdown at First Quality Field.

The Eagles stellar pitching performance kept Huskies hitters off balance the whole game where the Purple and White could only crack out two hits neither of those hits left the infield. 

Lauren Richardson stuck out eight batters through five strong innings. Richardson would even help her own cause during her third at bat, ripping a two run double. It was a whole team effort in the 14-0 win over Mifflin County.

Annika Shearer led the way with four runs batted in three runs came on a home run during her second at bat off of Piper Specht.

Eagles star Sydney May had two RBI’s in the game on a single and sac fly.

Cumberland Valley also got production from Brooke Yasenchak,Rylie Brill,Maddy Oswald and Izzy Kertes in the winning effort.

Specht would be pulled from the game after allowing six runs. Macy Pietzsch would come in relief she would also allow a boat load of runs in the team’s loss.

Mifflin County’s two hits came from Melaina Maxwell and Ava Baker.  

“The first thing is obviously it’s that they’re a really good team and you gotta come from the first pitch and play,” said Mifflin County coach Craig Weston.  “We didn’t do that today. We were behind in counts.  Hitting wise we didn’t square the ball up. There’s some little glimpse of good things and obviously you want to notice those things but you play this caliber of a team you got to come ready to play we didn’t do that today.”

Cumberland Valley has been impressive this season. The Eagles are the third best team in the state. With today’s win they improve to 9-2 in conference play this season. On the other side,  Mifflin County will have to rebound quickly as they play non Conference Williamsport on Thursday the Huskies now fall to 3-9 in conference play following today’s defeat.