Purchase Line stifles Bishop McCort to advance in District 6 Class 1A softball playoffs
COMMODORE, Pa. – Riding the momentum from Friday’s first-round win, sixth-seeded Bishop McCort Catholic grabbed an early edge, manufacturing a first-inning run. Purchase Line's Rylee Mahaffey settled in from there, blanking the Crimson Crushers the rest of the way and steering the third-seeded Red Dragons to a 3–1 District 6 Class 1A softball quarterfinal win Monday in a matchup of sophomore right-handed pitchers.
Purchase Line (16-3) countered Bishop McCort’s early run with two of its own in the bottom of the first and added another one in the third. Bishop McCort sophomore pitcher Lariah Myers refused to let the game get away. She settled in over the final three innings, limiting the Red Dragons to two hits and stranding runners in scoring position to keep the Crimson Crushers alive.
Myers finished with six innings, allowing six hits and three runs while striking out 10 with just one walk. “For the first couple of innings, she was seeing something I wasn’t,” Bishop McCort coach Jimmy Myers said of his daughter. “She came in and said, ‘Let’s go a different route.
’ That’s when things settled down. Those first couple of innings were a little tougher, but she wanted to make an adjustment, and we went with it. ” Lariah Myers’ adjustment came after a rocky start on both sides.
Bishop McCort (10-12) had jumped ahead 1–0 in the top of the first. Hannah Pfeil led off with a single to right, moved to second on a passed ball and scored on a bunt single by Myers. Purchase Line answered quickly in its half of the inning.