SCRANTON — Lackawanna Trail’s Lillian Rejrat was in the middle of the decisive three-run fourth inning that carried the Lackawanna League to a 5-3 victory over the Wyoming Valley Conference in a senior softball all-star game July 1 at Connell Park.
Rejrat and teammate Samantha Gumble joined Megan Heard and Riley Marshall from Abington Heights among the players on the Lackawanna team, which was coached by West Scranton’s E.J. Dougher.
The second annual game was sponsored by the 570 Sports Show.
The WVC took a 2-1 lead on back-to-back home runs in the top of the third inning.
Gumble then led off the bottom of the inning by getting hit by a pitch. She scored the tying run.
Meghan Kiernan from Susquehanna drove in the go-ahead run in the fourth with a sacrifice fly, then Rejrat and North Pocono’s Savannah Slater ripped consecutive RBI doubles for a 5-2 lead.
Heard started the game at third base and led off for Lackawanna. She drew a walk in the first inning and flew out later in the game.
Marshall started in left field and went 0-for-2.
North Pocono’s Julie Schriver, who did not allow an earned run while pitching the final four innings, was named Most Valuable Player for the Lackawanna team.
Tori Para from unbeaten Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class 5A state champion Pittston Area was the MVP from the WVC. She had two hits, including a solo home run, and scored twice.
Schriver held the WVC scoreless on one hit through the fourth, fifth and sixth innings.
Para led off with a single and scored on an error in the seventh when the WVC managed two hits and put the tying runners in scoring position. Schriver, who walked one and struck out four, ended the game by inducing a groundball back to the circle.
The WVC had eight players, went with an eight-person batting order and borrowed a right fielder, rotated from the deep Lackawanna bench, each inning. Pittston Area center fielder Sage Weidlich crashed into the chasing a flyball in the fourth inning and left the game for precautionary reasons.
The WVC finished up with seven players and help from two outfielders from the Lackawanna.
