Clarion Little League Fast Pitch Spring Warm-up Tourney Held (06/03/14)

Clarion Little League Softball held their The 2014 Clarion Little League Softball Fast Pitch Spring Warm-up Tournament was held on Saturday and Sunday, May 31 – June 1, at Paul A. Weaver Park.

2014 Spring Warm-up Tourney, Champions – Subway (New Bethlehem)

Both the upper and lower, Little League fields were utilized for the seven team, seventeen game event. The teams in this year’s event were. C-93, C and A Trees, Clarion County Community Bank, Farmers’ National Bank, Janney, Rimersburg and Subway.

The Championship game, on the lower field, saw local team Janney drop a hard fought 8-6 decision to Subway from New Bethlehem. The decisive blow was a two-run inside the park homer by Subway’s Brooke Holben, in the bottom of the fifth inning.

The teams were tied 1-all after the first inning. Janney scored two in the bottom of the third to take a 3-1 lead. Subway put up three runs in the top of the fourth and Janney answered with one in the bottom of the inning, knotting the score at 4-apiece. Janney scored two in the fifth to lead 6-4, but subway scored four in the sixth to pull out the win.
Eleven games were played on Saturday, setting up the seeding brackets for Sunday.

Sunday’s action: Subway beat Rimersburg, in Game 1. Game 2 saw Clarion County Community Bank defeat C and A Trees, while C-93 downed Farmers’ National Bank, in Game 3.

In the Semi-Final matchups, Janney downed CCCB,  and Subway defeated C-93.

2014 Spring Warm-Up, Second Place – Janney Front (L-R) Carlley Hunter, Sierra Brown, Kyara Girvan, Kendall Dunn, Morgan Ross, Aryana Girvan
Back (L-R) Coach Craig Dunn, Johanna Suter, Dorothy Kalinowski, Kaitlyn Constantino, Nikki Shumaker, Brenna Campbell, Manager Dave Constantino, Coach Kim Constantino

Records for the Tournament:

Subway (6-0)

Janney (4-1)

C-93 (3-2)

CCCB (3-3)

C and A (1-3)

Farmers (0-4)

Rimersburg (0-4)