Club Spotlight: PGF High School All-American (Senior) Game Goes to the East With Strong Pitching & Peralta’s Big Hit

After a scoreless first inning behind the pitching of Allison Benning (Oregon) for the East, sporting the Red jerseys, and Dee Dee Hernandez of the blue-clad West, the East (Red) team jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the second highlighted by a two-run single from infielder Nelia Peralta (Auburn)

In the bottom of the 2^nd, the Easts’ outfielder Tyler Ebbs (Kentucky) singled in a run to pull the west to within 3-1 but that score would last through the 7^th inning as the pitching and defense was impressive on both sides.

The West rolled out Stevie Hansen (Oregon) and Nicola Simpson (Tennessee) while the winning East squad started another incoming Oregon signee, Allison Benning, along with Jordyn Bahl (Oklahoma), who had just finished the 18U title game win for the Nebraska Gold with 18 K’s, and finished with Samantha Landry, the future Ragin’ Cajun who pitched the last four innings and didn’t give up a run.

Landry had seven strikeouts with just one hit given up in her four innings and was named by Extra Inning Softball as the Pitching MVP of the game. Peralta, for her efforts which included the pair of RBIs, single and walk, was named the Game MVP by PGF.

The East pitchers, including Landry, held the powerful West bats to just three hits while the winning side had 10 hits.