Butler
Golden Tornado Softball
2011
Butler claims softball opener
Butler - 2 Plum - 1
Caitlin Baxter drew a bases-loaded walk which sent Sadie
Marak home with the game-winning run in the bottom of
the ninth inning as the Butler softball team opened the
season with a 2-1 victory over Plum.
Butler had tied the game in the bottom of the eighth inning
when Becca Schnur,
who had reached on an error, scored
on an error.
Plum had taken a 1-0 lead in the top of the eighth inning.
Angie Reddick earned the win with nine strikeouts and allowed
just three hits.
In jayvee action, Plum downed the Tornado 6-1 despite six
strikeouts in a complete-game effort by Aubrey Schmeider.
Erin Pennington had a double and Schmeider a single for
Butler (0-1).
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Karns City's Ceanca Everetts, Brooke Hiles and Breezzie
Rich all tripled, but Ford City held on for a 10-8 victory.
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Melea Mauthe had two hits and pitcher Stephanie Kotomski
fanned nine batters, but Slippery Rock dropped an 11-1
decision to West Middlesex in six innings.
Plum 000 000 010 — 1 3 2
Butler 000 000 011 — 2 3 1
W: Angie Reddick 9IP (9K, 4BB). L: B. Johns 9IP (3K, 3BB).
Butler (1-0): Sadie Marak 2B
Strong arm, solid bat
Butler - 6 North Hills - 3
Amanda Skidmore tallied
three hits, including a home run,
helping her own cause
in Butler's 6-3 high school softball
win over North Hills.
Skidmore pitched a complete game, striking out four in
the section victory.
Butler (4-4, 2-4)
North Hills 000 002 1 — 3 8 1
Butler 012 030 x — 6 8 0
W: Amanda Skidmore 7 IP (4K, 1BB). L: Rectenwald 7 IP (3K,
0BB).
North Hills: Warsing 1B 2B R, Zozos 2-1B
Butler (4-4): Amanda Skidmore 2-1B HR 2R 2RBI, Hannah Henry
1B R, Amanda Steinheiser 1B 2R, Angie Reddick 1B RBI
Softball (schedule & results)
Butler - 2 Plum - 1
Butler -
8 Knoch - 1
Butler - 16 Oakland Catholic - 1
Butler - 6 North Hills - 3
2010
Butler -
5 Mars - 2
Caitlin Baxter had
a triple. Amanda
Skidmore and Mackenzie O'Donnell each
had a double. Amanda
Skidmore was 3 for
3 at the plate. Tori Hesidence was
2 for 3 at the plate. Winning pitcher was Angie Reddick.
She had 6 strike outs.
Butler - 5 Mars - 2
Butler - 5 Fox Chapel - 2
Angie Reddick was the winning pitcher. She struck out
7 batters. Caitlin Baxter had a triple. Angie Reddick
and
Sara Cobern each had a double. Cait Baxter scored 2
runs for Butler. Olivia Hortert, Sara Cobern and Amber
Steinheiser
each added a run. Angie Reddick and Sara Cobern each
had 2 RBI's.
Butler - 15 Knoch - 2
Winning Pitcher was Amanda Skidmore. Butler had 18
hits which included 5 doubles(Cait Baxter, Angie Reddick,
Amanda Skidmore, Olivia Vasey and Mackenzie O'Donnell)
and a triple(by
Cait Baxter). Olivia Vasey, Angie Reddick and Sadie
Marak
were all 3 for 3 at the plate. Sadie Marak and Mackenzie
O'Donnell each had 3 RBI's.
Butler -
5 Pine Richland -2
. Sadie
Marak had a triple. Caitlin Baxter had a double. Angie
Reddick had 2 RBI's. Amanda
Skidmore and Olivia Vasey each had a RBI. Olivia Vasey
was 2 for 4 at the plate. Amanda Skidmore was the winning
pitcher. She had 5 strikeouts. Caitlin Baxter scored
3 of Butler's 5 runs. Sadie Marak and Julie Brenckle
each
added a run for Butler.
Butler -
5 Mars - 2
Butler - 5 Fox
Chapel - 2
Butler - 15 Knoch -
2
Butler - 5 Pine
Richland - 2
Butler - 1 North
Hills - 0
Butler - 20 Blackhawk
- 0
Butler - 1 Pine
Richland - 0
Butler - 15 Grove City
- 0
Butler - 6 Riverside -
3
2009
Butler - 4 North
Hills - 2
"Now is the time we have to play our best ball," Butler varsity softball
coach Lori Kline
Butler - 3 Kiski
- 2
more...
Butler - 11 Knoch -
0
Butler - 8 Seneca Valley -
3
Butler - 7 Plum - 5
Butler - 8 Seneca
Valley - 3
Amanda Skidmore limited Shaler to four hits en route to
a 2-1 victory.
Shaler 001 000 0 1 4 3
Butler 002 000 x 2 4 0
W: Amanda Skidmore (7 IP) 4 K, 2 BB. L: Nichter (6 IP)
10 K, 1 BB.
Butler (7-4, 3-4): Nikki Hlavik 3B; Angie Reddick 2B; Jocelyn
Bachman 1B; Karen Cumberledge 1B
Butler - 4 North Hills - 2
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Butler - 9 Riverside - 7
The Butler softball team started the season in fine fashion when Olivia
Vasey banged out three hits and Angie
Reddick didn't yield an earned run in six solid innings as the
Golden Tornado toppled Riverside.
Butler scored five times in the top on the sixth inning to take the lead and
hung on for the win.
Sadie Marak had two hits and
drove in a run for Butler.
Reddick surrendered five hits and seven unearned runs.
Butler - 9 Fox Chapel - 5
They
are potent, poised — and winning...
Butler - 3 North Hills - 2
Sadie Marak homered and Angie Reddick pitched
a complete game as Butler eked out a 3-2 victory over North Hills.
Danielle Lloyd hit two home runs as
the Butler JV team edged the Indians 9-8.
Tornado Softball :
Upset minded in 2007
The Tornado Softball squad edged defending
WPIAL Class AAAA softball champion North Allegheny, 5-4, in Class
AAAA Section 3. Jenna Geibel hit a two-run
homer in the bottom of the seventh inning. Geibel collected
three hits, two home runs and drove in four runs for the Golden Tornado.
Geibel's homer gives Butler 1st section win since '04
What a way to end a streak.
Jenna Geibel hit
a two-out, two-run, walkoff home run in the bottom of the
seventh inning to give the Butler girls
softball team its first victory in two seasons, a 5-4 win
over NorthAllegheny.
Butler went 0-17 last season and hadn't won a section game
since the 2004 season.
The blast was Geibel's second two-run
homer of the game.
Her first home run came in the third inning to give the
Golden Tornado a 3-0 lead.
North Allegheny rallied to take the lead with a four-run
sixth inning to set up the heroics.
North Allegheny 000 004 0—4 6 1
Butler 102 000 2—5 8 2
Two out when winning run scored
WP: Stacy Reges (7 IP) 8 strikeouts, 9 walks. LP: Julie Heinl
(2X\c IP) 0 strikeouts, 0 walks
North Allegheny: Jocelyn Dimpel 2-1B
Jenna Geibel 2-HR, 2B, 4-RBI; Lauren Sanderson
2-1B, R
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Golden Tornado Softball Past...
Butler
- 3 Seneca Valley - 2
Butler
- 3 Seneca Valley - 1
The
real Deal...
Dana Gillis and Megan
Shingleton had two hits apiece and Amy
Ferrari had a double and two RBI as the
Butler softball team routed New Castle 13-3 in a five-inning
game.
The Tornado also benefited from 13 walks from New Castle starter Sara Chill and
six errors from the Red Hurricanes' defense.
Butler's Kelly Reges pitched a complete-game two-hitter with five strikeouts
and no walks.
