Charters Valley Softball is proud of the highlights of the season and looks up to date

The goal for the Chartier Valley Softball Team plays every year until June.

In the last four seasons, the team made it into the semi -finals of the WPIAL playoffs and qualified for the state playoffs.

This year the team rose only a few centimeters to make it five years in a row.

“We fought to the end,” said Colt's coach Chris Lloyd. “We had bases with the chance to tie the game and a diving game arrived.”

Since the Charters Valley with the invited bases remained in the top of the seventh inner, the second third Baseman Alana Woods came to the bat and rectangle a cable drive that was on the way to split up the gaps as a penn-trafford outfield Giuliana Younggo made a spectacular diving catcher at the end of the rally.

“She made a damn game,” said Lloyd. “If she hadn't caught that, we would definitely have bound the game.”

The Charters Valley (12-7) recorded its season with a defeat of 14: 11 against the top seed warriors in the quarter-finals of class 5a. It was a difficult to take for the Colts players.

“They were pretty annoyed,” said Lloyd. “Penn-Traffords Pitcher was not hit all year round and we played 18 goals for them, so we played pretty well offensive. We defensively had a few bad bodies that gave them some lives and additional runs throughout the game.”

“The game started rough for us,” said Senior Pitcher Taylor Walsh. “We knew that they would be hard competition, but we would not return to them. Everyone was ready to go. We just had been neglected.”

The Penn Trafford game was a snapshot of the Colts season because the players consistently had a mentality.

The year started Rocky for a team that would probably meet well, and four players had undertaken to play at College level.

The Colts started with a few shutout losses, 4-0 to Neshannock and 13: 0 at Plum. They defeated Beaver (10: 4) and Blackhawk 5: 2, but were kept in chess in an 11: 1 defeat against South Park to open the year 2: 3.

Then the rain started to fall and the Colts did not play a game for the next two weeks, spent all of their time in the gym.

“These losses at the beginning of the year were quite modest,” said Senior Second Baseman Annabelle Helt.

The biggest thing Lloyd saw from his team in his two weeks without games was how the players came together as a group.

“I said settings are contagious, are they worth being caught?” Said Lloyd. “I told them that they had to be ready to bring everything they had and to support and to be there for each other. They became one.”

“We hang out each other outside of the softball every day, and I think if they close the field, it is easy to play with and for each other,” said Senior Pitcher and Center Field Delaney O'Connor.

After the weather was clarified, the Chartiere Valley made itself against the opponents of the sections in five games and the offensive of 60 runs achieved in these competitions.

From there, the team won four of his last seven and had to stand on Plum in the first round of the playoffs.

Lloyd reminded his players that they played at Plum at the beginning of the year at the beginning of the year, where the fences went to about 170 feet. But in the playoffs in a neutral field, the fences would be 30 feet back.

“We had nothing to lose to go into play,” said Lloyd. “When we were facing her for the first time, we threw a lot outside. Taylor threw very well in the playoff game, threw a large part of her things into his hands and we took away your bats.”

“I knew that I had to go out, I had to be myself and trusted my fields,” said Walsh. “I gave everything in a circle and we played a good collective game.”

Lily Duffill, a Penn State commit, hit a Homerun with two runs and the Colts scored a 2-1 win.

“We knew that we would go into this game that we were the outsiders,” said Duffill. “Nobody thought we would win and we said we would prove that everyone was wrong.”

Duffill ended her year with an average of 0.574 with 37 goals, 26 RBIs, eight home runs, five stolen bases and 27 runs.

Her production dipped a little this year when the teams took the bat out of their hands and she went almost 20 times.

“She was probably upset, but she never showed it,” said Lloyd. “She has found other ways to help and score the team. She led the team in stolen bases.”

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“I mentally matured,” said Duffill. “I got used to dealing with things that were not in my comfort zone, and learned how to learn with things that I usually didn't like or wanted.”

It was the rest of the line -up, which included four new position players to pick up Duffill.

Sophomore Ava Dunlap took over on the first base and became the fifth hitter of the team that was behind Duffill. She ended with an average of 0.338 with 22 goals and 16 RBIs and was a second team-all section.

Chloe Tenney, another student in the second year, played a lot of real field and was later interrupted by her twin sister Alyssa in games. She ended the year with an average of 0.364.

“Chloe did a great job by overruning the line -up by climbing the base and was one of our top grids,” said Lloyd. “It was great to see Ava as a second year and to record the way it did.”

Woods started in the third basis and took her goals during the season. She ended the year with an average of 0.295, collected 18 goals and drove in 12 runs. Sophomore Morgan Vaughan played Shortstop and was the flex of the team.

A big surprise came in Gianna Scalisene, who was the team's designated player as a newcomer. Her first game was against West Allegheny and she met a Homerun. In the course of the year she hurled a few triple, including one against Penn Trafford.

“She got on the right foot,” said Lloyd. “She was not afraid or nervous, went on the plate every time to swing. Hopefully she will continue to improve in the course of her high school career.”

“It was difficult to replace the seniors from last year,” said O'Connor. “The underclasses played very well, and I'm so proud of them. I don't think we would have made it as far as we did if they didn't strengthen it.”

The experienced players also accepted the younger players and strived to take them under their wings.

“I was the only returning player in the Infield,” said Helt. “I had the feeling that I had to climb and help them when it came to certain situations. Morgan and Alana got better in the course of the season and they will do better next year if they improve further.”

The Colts also received a lot of recognition at the end of the season.

Duffill was appointed player of the year, Walsh, Humt, Senior Delaney O'Connor were all selected as the first team all section and Lloyd was a coach of the year.

“I was surprised,” said Lloyd. “It is good to be recognized by all other coaches, but if it hadn't been played for the girls and how she had been played, I would not be a coach of the year. It's all on them.”

While the team shakes off his playoff loss, the players will look next year where they will be without their two best pitchers because both Walsh and O'Connor graduate.

Walsh, who goes at Wheeling University to study sports science, was 72 strikes 9-6 this year. O'Connor, who changes to Robert Morris to study the activity of the activity, was 3-1 with an ERA of 2.10 and 32 strikeouts. Helt is left to an emptiness on the second basis, as she will go to Pitt-Johnstown in autumn and study biology.

“It will be difficult to lose these three,” said Lloyd.

There are many young talents who can help bring the colts back to the playoffs. Chloe Tenney is expected to take over one of the pitching places and Duffill is looking forward to working with her.

“She is an excellent pitcher,” said Duffill. “She doesn't have much speed at the moment, but the shoot that she can put on the ball is amazing.”

“Our young girls got a lot of playing time between university and JV this year,” said Lloyd. “You know what to expect next year.

With a bit of luck, Charters Valley will play until the next season in June.

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