Once-beaten Karns City rallied in the final two innings to defeat Armstrong, 3-1, in softball action Tuesday.

The Gremlins won their seventh straight game as Marra Patton scattered six hits and strck out four. Ashley Fox had two singles and two RBI for he Gremlins while Jessica Dunn had a single and RBI, Jayda Polczynski two singles.

Karns City trailed 1-0 before scoring once in the sixth and twice in the seventh.

Karns City 000 001 2 — 3 7 0

Armstrong 010 000 0 — 1 6 0

W: Marra Patton 7IP (4K, 2BB). L: C.Sprankle 7IP (7K, 3BB)

Karns City: Ashley Fox 2-1B 2-RBI, Jessica Dunn 1B RBI, Marra Patton 1B, Megan Whitmire 1B, Jayda Polczynski 2-1B

Armstrong: E.Paul 1B, J.Clantz HR, C.Adams 1B, B.Atherson 1B, N.Benevuti 2-1B

Pine-Richland 12, Butler 2 — Erin Rhinaman and Lily Viccari doubled for the Golden Tornado (0-7), who were limited to four hits and committed five errors.

Pine-Richland 106 23x x — 12 9 0

Butler 101 00x x — 2 4 5

W: Harley Aguglia 5IP (8K, 5BB). L: Kelsey Ogin 3.1IP (4K, 2BB)

Pine-Richland: Marissa DeLuca 2-1B, Izzy Sulesky 2B 1B, Olivia Shauffer 1B, June McCune HR, Mackemzie Gillis HR

Butler: Erin Ehinaman 2B, Lily Viccari 2B, Grace Negley 1B, Libby DeMaio 1B

Baseball

Matt Mroz struck out six and allowed only two hits in five innings Tuesday as Mars defeated Woodland Hills, 8-1.

Zack Orosz had a double, single and scored three runs for the Planets (9-3, 7-1). Jake Johnson singled, walked twice and scored three runs.

Jahshawn Pringle doubled for Woodland Hills. Mars plays Knoch Friday night at Pullman Park.

Knoch 10, Indiana 9 — The Knights clinched a WPIAL playoff berth Monday night with a wild nine-inning win at Pullman Park. Knoch forced extra innings by scoring a run in the bottom of the seventh, rallied to tie the game again in the eighth and won it by playing three runs in the ninth.

Isaac Roddy was hit by a pitch to start the seventh, moved to third on a Luke DiSanti single and scored on Logan Cypher’s groundout,. The Knights scored in the eighth as Angelo DeLeonardis doubled and scored on a throwing error.

Trailing 9-7 entering the bottom of the ninth, Knoch began the frame with a walk to Brady Wozniak. Roddy was hit by a pitch again, then Cypher was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out. Dathan Gillis hit a two-run single to tie the game. Braden Kriley’s first regular season varsity at-bat resulted in an infield single to plate the winning run.

In Tuesday’s rematch, the Knights scored seven runs with two outs in the sixth inning in a 10-7 win over the Indians. Logan Cypher had a key two-run double to help put Knoch ahead for good.

The Knights and North Catholic both sport 6-2 section records and will decide the section championship when they face each other twice next week.

North Allegheny 4, Butler 0 — The Golden Tornado (8-3 overall) dropped to 4-3 in Section 1-6A play with this loss to the host Tigers.

No other details were available.

The teams will square off again at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Pullman Park.

Track and Field

Union/A-C Valley’s Payton Johnston, Andrew Verostek and JP Blauser swept the boys triple jump as the Falcon Knights edged Redbank Valley, 75-74.

In the girls meet, Evie Bliss won both hurdle events, but Union/A-C Valley fell to the Bulldogs, 83-62.

Boys

Union/A-C Valley 75, Redbank Valley 74

3,200 relay: Union/A-C Valley (Bashline, Blauser, Willett, Johnston) 10:22.9; 110 hurdles: Gardlock (RV) 15.9; 100 dash: Kahle (RV) 11.0; 1,600 run: Fricko (RV) 5:41; 400 run: Morganti (U/ACV) 55.2; 400 relay: Union/A-C Valley (Huffman, Morganti, Roxbury, Camper) 45.9; 300 hurdles: Gardlock (RV) 44.8; 800 run: Bashline (U/ACV) 2:38.1; 200 dash: Kahle (RV) 23.4; 3,200 run: Johnston (U/ACV) 12:02.3; 1,600 relay: Union/A-C Valley 4:25

Shot put: Wagner (RV) 46-4; Discus: Wagner (RV) 143-3; Javelin: Clover (U/ACV) 132-8; High jump: Smith (U/ACV) 6-0; Long jump: Ortz (RV) 19-10; Triple jump: Johnston (U/ACV) 35-5; Pole vault: Spence (RV) 11-0

Girls

Redbank Valley 83, Union/A-C Valley 62

3,200 relay: Redbank Valley 12:42.7; 100 hurdles: Bliss (U/ACV) 18.4; 100 dash: Blauser (U/ACV) 13.2; 1,600 run: Barnett (RV) 7:33.4; 400 run: Harmon (RV) 1:07; 400 relay: Redbank Valley 53.5; 300 hurdles: Bliss (U/ACV) 54.8; 800 run: Whitcomb (U/ACV) 2:47.8; 200 dash: Blauser (U/ACV) 28.1; 3,200 run: Faulk (RV) 20:03.4; 1,600 relay: Union/A-C Valley (Whitcomb, McVay, Morrison, Farkas) 5:05.4

Shot put: Logue (U/ACV) 31-3; Discus: Edmonds (RV) 88-1; Javelin: Huffman (RV) 106-1; High jump: Harmon (RV); Long jump: Blauser (U/ACV) 17-5; Triple jump: Blauser (U/ACV) 34-10; Pole vault: Henry (RV) 9-0

Boys Volleyball

Cam Ray had 35 assists as Butler defeated North Hills, 3-1. Scores were 25-21, 25-19, 23-25, 25-16.

Max Gianneski had 15 kills and Coleton Welter nine digs for the Golden Tornado (6-5, 4-3), who play at Shaler Thursday.