MOOREFIELD, W.Va. — No. 3 Petersburg captured the Bub Riggleman tournament championship this weekend, winning all five games by run rule.
The Vikings (17-3) rolled 17-1 over Moorefield (10-10) in the title game Saturday. Cheyenne Sites ended the proceedings with a walk-off grand slam to force the mercy rule.
Petersburg beat Jefferson, 11-3, in the semifinals, Spring Mills twice, 10-0 and 10-2, and Hedgesville, 17-1.
The Vikings blasted 10 home runs across their five wins. Miley Tingler clubbed three for 13 runs batted in, Abi Nettles and Ella Markwell had two big flies each, and Lacey Moyers, Ella Chew (WVU Potomac State commit) and Sites hit one.
Shyane Tawney (.667 average), Tingler (.615) and Markwell (.600) all hit .600 or better.
Petersburg also received five complete-game victories from three different pitchers. Gracie Carpenter and Kinsley Crites recorded two each, and Moyers had the other.
Petersburg is at Pendleton County on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Moorefield walked off Musselman, 8-7, Saturday in the other semifinal on a first-pitch solo homer by Brenna See in the bottom of the seventh.
The host Yellow Jackets also defeated Williamsport, 16-8, Saturday and North Marion, 11-2, and Greenbrier West, 9-1, Friday.
See hit two other home runs during the tournament, Kerigan Bergdall hit two, and Gracie Simmons and Sara Baldwin garnered a homer each.
Simmons, who is committed to WVU Potomac State, caught all five games behind the plate over two days, including three contests Saturday.
Moorefield hosts No. 2 Keyser (12-3) on Monday at 6 p.m.
Hampshire (0-17) dropped its three games in the Bub Riggleman tournament, falling to Musselman, 16-3, Saturday and Pendleton County, 19-3, and Williamsport, 15-0, on Friday.
The Trojans hosts Moorefield on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Tingler was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player. Her teammates Carpenter and Tawney were made the all-tourney team.
Fellow area players on the all-tournament squad included See and Emmy Crites (Moorefield) and Kaitlyn Ferguson (Hampshire).
LAVALE — Jordyn Sneathen tossed a one-hit shutout to power No. 1 Allegany past Mountain Ridge for its 11th straight win.
The Campers (12-1, 5-0 Western Maryland Athletic Conference) scored three runs in the first inning and added four in the third.
Sneathen, a St. Francis signee, tossed seven shutout frames with 12 strikeouts to five walks for the win in the circle.
Sneathen, Mykah Baker (WVU Potomac State commit) and Savannah Walton doubled, and Walton and Baker had two runs batted in apiece.