Maura Pasquale had a clutch two-run single in the bottom of the sixth inning to put the Seneca Valley softball team ahead in a 4-3 win over Pine-Richland Thursday afternoon.

Pasquale's hit drove home Izzy Roule and Madison Hans.

Claire Zimmerman got the win for the Raiders.

Pine-Richland 020 100 0 — 3 4 0

Seneca Valley 000 004 x — 4 5 2

W: Claire Zimmerman 7IP (1K, 2BB). L: Aughton 6IP (5K, 6BB).

Pine-Richland: Divinney 2B

Seneca Valley (4-0, 2-0): Maura Pasquale 2-1B 2-RBI

Friday: Shaler at Seneca Valley

Karns City 15, West Middlesex 1 — The Gremlins scored 10 runs in the first and cruised to this win.

Mackenzie Dunn got the win in the circle and also tripled and drove in two.

Alyssa Stitt had three hits and two RBI.

Karns City (10)12 22x x — 15 12 0

West Middlesex 000 10x x — 1 3 4

W: Dunn 5IP (8K, 2BB). L: Pope 5IP (2K, 8BB).

Karns City: Stitt 3-1B 3-R 2-RBI, Dunn 3B 1B 3-R 2-RBI, Ekis 1B 2-RBI, Allen 2-1B

North Hills 13, Butler 7 — McKenna Negley and Autumn Pettinato each had a pair of hits in the Golden Tornado (0-2) loss.

Knoch 14, North Catholic 11 — Bailey Rickenbrode hit a pair of home runs as the Knights won this slugfest over the Trojanettes.

Baseball

Braden Tristani's walk-off RBI hit lifted Knoch to a 6-5 win over Deer Lakes at Michelle Krill Field at Historic Pullman Park.

Eli Sutton had a double, single and two RBI and Jack Bartek also drove in two runs for the Knights (2-0).

Sean McGill also doubled for Knoch.

Guy DeLeonardis pitched a scoreless seventh inning for the win.

Knoch will travel to Mars Friday afternoon.

Boys Volleyball

Carson Stein had 55 digs as Butler squandered a 2-0 lead but won the fifth game for a 25-20, 25-16, 22-25, 23-25, 15-10 win over North Catholic.

Dennis Goodwine had 12 kills and Logan Donnel 10 kills for the Golden Tornado (1-1).