Central Bucks West vs. Central Bucks South

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This was a great win for Central Bucks West, coming off a tough loss against North Penn last week. The Bucks beat their cross-town rival Central Bucks South by a score of 4-1. Sienna Lawson was outstanding in the circle holding a good South team to only one run on five hits, while striking out ten batters on the day. South had runners in scoring position in the first, third, fourth, and fifth innings but came up empty in those innings as Sienna Lawson was able to pitch out of those innings without allowing a run. West got on the board first in the bottom of the fourth inning when Laila Murray lead off the inning by hitting a towering fly ball to dead center, which easily cleared the center field fence to plate the first run of the game. Laila was playing her first game as a shortstop for the Bucks. South tied the game in the top of the sixth. In the bottom of the sixth West went on to score three runs to take a 4-1lead into the seventh inning. Ana Glemser led off the sixth by being hit by a pitch. Sienna Lawson singled to advance Glemser to second. Laila Murray followed with a two-strike single to right scoring Ana Glemser with the go ahead run. On the play, the throw from the South right fielder beat Glemser to the plate but an outstanding fade slide by Glemser away from the catcher's tag would give West the lead for good. Elle Cooper, running for Sienna Lawson, scored the third run on an RBI groundout by Molly Gibson. The final run of the inning scored when Katherine James reached first on an error, which scored Laila Murray with the fourth and final run of the game. South went down in order in the top half of the seventh on three strikeouts by Sienna Lawson. Coach Mike Daher said "this was a great win for us against a very good CB South team. Matt McLaughlin does a great job as the South coach, and he always has his team ready to play. They do all of the little things well and they are a very difficult team to beat. The fact that we were able to beat them twice this year is a great accomplishment for our girls. Sienna Lawson was outstanding today. She battled through seven innings and pitched us out of difficult situations in several of those middle innings. She was on the top of her game today. Laila Murray had a big day at the plate hitting the home run to give us the lead and then driving in the go ahead run in the bottom of the sixth on that two-strike hit to right field. She is really showing a lot of confidence at the plate right. In her last at bat, she looked at two strikes to go down 0-2 and then waited on an outside pitch and hit it to right field for a very big RBI single. Sienna Lawson also had a big hit in that last inning to put the winning run in scoring position. We did not have a lot of hits today, only five, but we had some big ones at key times in the game. We also played solid defensively and of course got a great game from Sienna."