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Lady Bears Win Over Hartville In Extra Innings

The Ava Lady Bears softball team took another game to extra innings Tuesday, defeating Hartville, 7-5, in a back-and-forth battle in eight.
Ava’s Ashton Bewley was 3-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored in the game played at Hartville.
Taylor George was 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored, and Macey Phillips was 2-for-5 in the extended game.
Hartville took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning, and after a scoreless third, the Lady Bears tied the game in the fourth.
Ava went ahead 3-1 in the fifth but Hartville came back with three runs in the bottom of the sixth to take a 4-3 lead. Ava went ahead again in the top half of the seventh with two runs, but the home team tied in the bottom half to force an extra frame.
Ava scored two runs in the top of the eighth and held on to get the third out with the tying runs on base.