Jim Thorpe advanced to the District 18 11-12 winner’s bracket final with a victory over Stroudsburg on Thursday.

In Junior Connie Mack action, Franklin Township and Jim Thorpe both posted wins.

DIST. 18 11-12 BASEBALL

Jim Thorpe-Stroudsburg

Jim Thorpe collected 12 hits, and held off a late Stroudsburg rally, to advance to the winner’s bracket final with an 8-7 victory.

Thorpe will face Tamaqua on Monday with a berth in the championship round on the line.

The winners jumped out to a lead with four runs in the top of the first inning. Alex Eckert set the tone with a solo homer to open the scoring.

Owen Hosier and Vincent Montefour made it 3-0 when both scored on an error, before Nick Dedinsky later delivered an RBI single.

Stroudsburg battled back with three runs in the home first, but Jim Thorpe got those runs back in the third.

Eckert singled and Julius Calcano doubled to start the third-inning uprising. Eckert raced home on a passed ball while Calcano scored on Hosier’s infield hit. Eduardo Camacho’s RBI hit brought in Hosier to make it 7-3.

In the fifth, Camacho walked with the bases loaded to plate Calcano, who had singled, with an insurance run.

That tally proved to be big as Stroudsburg scored a run in the fifth, and two more in the sixth, to cut the deficit to a single run. But Mason Pruitte was summoned to the mound and recorded the final out with a strikeout to secure the win.

Dedinsky was the starting pitcher for Thorpe and tossed two innings, allowing no earned runs while striking out three. Hosier relieved and threw three innings, also fanning three.

Jim Thorpe 403 010 - 8 12 1

Stroudsburg 301 012 - 7 6 2

Dedinsky, Hosier (3), Montefour (6), Pruitte (6) and Eckert.

DIST. 18 9-10 SOFTBALL

Carbon-Stroudsburg

Stroudsburg limited Carbon to just one hit to earn an 11-0 victory.

The winners jumped out to a lead with three runs in the first inning, and closed the contest with a five-run fifth.

Zoei Costenbader accounted for Carbon’s only hit, a single in the fifth.

Stroudsburg 303 05 - 11 10 1

Carbon 000 00 - 0 1 3

L - Demyanovich.

LV JR CONNIE MACK

Franklin-Freemansburg

Alex Kish and Brian Mriss both drove in three runs to help lead Franklin Township to a convincing 10-0 victory over Freemansburg Gray.

Kish, who went 2-for-3, belted a two-run double in a six-run fourth inning. Mriss, who went 3-for-3, had RBI singles in the first, third, and fourth innings.

Owen Moyer and Miles Meek both added a pair of hits for Franklin Township.

Meek also surrendered just four hits and zero runs over five innings.

Freemansburg Gr. 000 00 - 0 4 3

Franklin Twp 013 6x - 10 10 2

Davis, Merhottein (4) and Powell; Meek and Mriss. W - Mriss. L - Davis.

Records: Freemansburg Gray (8-7); Franklin Township (13-3).

No. Lehigh-Northern Vy.

Northern Lehigh staged a late rally, but ended in a 5-5 tie with Northern Valley.

In the top of the sixth inning, Northern Lehigh took a 5-4 lead with a pair of runs behind Bradley Conroy’s RBI double and Ethan Henritzy’s RBI single.

Northern Valley jumped out to a 4-1 lead in third, highlighted by Cam Petrucelli’s two-run single.

Connor Hausman helped Northern Valley tie the game in the bottom of the sixth when he stole home. Hausman, Andrew Saltzer, and Liam Sensinger each stole two bases, as the Chargers swiped 11 overall.

Rhys Regan had two hits for Northern Lehigh.

Northern Lehigh 100 112 - 5 6 2

Northern Valley 022 001 - 5 3 2

Conroy, Fahringer (2), Stettler (6) and Kabrick; Hausman, Kulp (5) and Storch.

Records: Northern Lehigh (3-10-2); Northern Valley (4-11-1).

Jim Thorpe-Coplay

Jionni Puddu went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs to help lead Jim Thorpe to a 15-0 shutout of Coplay, snapping a 12-game streak.

Noah Cisick fired a one-hitter for Jim Thorpe, striking out five.

Puddu had a bases-clearing triple in the second as a part of an 11-run inning. Zach Fougere, who went 2-for-2, plated four runs also in the stanza.

Parker Grant, Daniel Off, and Jackson Englebert each had two hits.

Coplay 0 0 0 - 0 1 1

Jim Thorpe 2(11)2 - 15 13 3

Muller, Richards (2) and Attieh; Cisick and Englebert. W - Cisick L - Muller.

Records: Coplay (6-10); Jim Thorpe (2-13).