Boyertown High School and Central Bucks West met in the first round of the PIAA District One playoffs with Boyertown coming out on top by the score of 9-2. Boyertown got on the board first with three runs in the top of the first inning. Rielynn Carey got things going for the Boyertown Bears with a single off of the Central Bucks West starting pitcher Ana Glemser. Aubrey Gilbert reached first on a perfectly executed bunt single down the third base line. It looked like Glemser may escape trouble in the first by striking out the next two batters that she faced. That brought shortstop Jenna Fox to the plate with two on and two out. Fox hit a one strike pitch for a three-run home run over the left fence to put Boyertown up by a score of 3-0 after one half inning of play. Central Bucks was able to answer back with a run of their own in their half of the first inning. Shortstop Katherine James led off the inning with a single to left field. Ana Glemser then drew a one out walk which was followed by a run producing RBI single off the bat of Taylor Hooven. Senior Taylor Hooven has hit well all year for the Bucks and today would be no different. Hooven would finish two for three on the day with an RBI. The score remained 3-1 until the top of the fourth inning when Boyertown would put another run on the board. Hailey Schildt reached base on a one out single to get the inning going for the Bears. Taylor Wilson followed that hit with a single of her own and Schildt came around to score on an RBI single off the bat of Rielynn Carey. The score after three and one-half innings of play was Boyertown 4 and CB West 1. Boyertown added an insurance run in the fifth inning on an RBI sacrifice fly off the bat of Jenna Fox who drove in Aubrey Gilbert. Gilbert reached base on a single to start the inning. In the bottom of the fifth inning, the Bucks were able to produce their second run of the game. That run came off the bat of Ana Glemser who hit a two out first pitch to dead center field that landed well beyond the center field fence. Glemser circled the bases with her fifth home run of the season. After Ana Glemser's home run, Taylor Hooven walked, and Marley Swain singled to keep the drive alive. Pitcher Kyra Neiswender was able to escape further damage in the bottom of the fifth inning by inducing a ground out to end the inning and the threat from the Bucks offense. Boyertown was able to put a big inning together in their half of the seventh inning. They would score four runs in the inning where the big highlights were back-to-back home runs by Aubrey Gilbert and Lindsay Mathias. Gilbert and Mathias were the first two batters in the inning for Boyertown. They also scored two more runs on an RBI single off the bat of Hailey Schildt. Central Bucks West were unable to score in the home half of the seventh inning and thus the final score was Boyertown 9 and Central Bucks West 2. Boyertown advanced from the first round of the playoffs and will now take on Avon Grove in the next round. Kyra Neiswender went the full seven innings for Boyertown. She gave up two runs on seven hits, walked five Bucks hitters and struck out six on the afternoon. Ana Glemser took the loss for the Bucks. Mike Daher's comments, "It is always tough when you lose that final game of the season and you know you have been eliminated from the playoffs. This year was that much more difficult as we watched our four seniors, who have been such an important part of this program for the last four years, play their final game for us. Ana Glemser, Taylor Hooven, Laila Murray, and Avery Rubenstein are not only tremendous softball players they are also outstanding young adults. It is hard to put into words how much they have meant to this program over the last four years. They worked as hard as they possibly could every day out on the field and were tremendous leaders on and off the field for our younger players. They have all really left their mark on the West softball program. They will be missed by not only the coaches but every one of our underclassmen."