PHOTO GALLERY | 'Well-pitched game': Conemaugh Valley walks off Ferndale to win 6-1A pitchers' duel
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Conemaugh Valley’s walk-off victory over Ferndale actually revealed how effective each team’s pitching was in Friday’s District 6 Class 1A playoff contest. The Blue Jays’ Donald Brown scored the game-winning run from third base after reaching base on a dropped third strike.
The Blue Jays won 2-1 over the Yellow Jackets at Pete Vuckovich Field without a hit in the seventh inning. PHOTO GALLERY | Conemaugh Valley advances in D6-1A playoffs with 2-1 walk-off win over Ferndale “Very well-pitched game,” Conemaugh Valley coach Jamie Eckenrode said. “We had to take a few chances at the end.
That’s what happened. We got lucky. ” Luck might have played a factor, but the seventh-seeded Blue Jays (9-11) certainly can thank the lefty-righty tandem of pitchers Kyron Fields and Lance Masser for a shutdown effort on the mound.
Fields pitched 42/3 innings, allowing one hit and no earned runs while striking out 10 and walking two. Connor Hrivnak, Joey Toth Ferndale shortstop Connor Hrivnak (left) catches Conemaugh Valley’s Joey Toth in a pickle in the bottom of the second inning of a PIAA District 6, Class 1A first-round playoff game at Conemaugh Valley Junior/Senior High School in East Taylor, Friday, May 15, 2026. Masser tossed 21/3 scoreless frames while retiring all seven batters faced.
“They were throwing strikes,” Eckenrode said. “We were getting ahead of batters and getting outs. We had an inning with a couple errors that let them get back in the game, but our pitchers threw crazy-good today.
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