Williams Valley's Ella Kobularik takes a swing during Saturday's non-league game against Line Mountain at Lee Reiser Field. Kobularik had a double and a triple in the Vikings' 15-0, three-inning victory. (Photo by Bob Lipsky)

TOWER CITY — Eleven batters. Six hits. Six runs. Game over.

That’s Williams Valley’s first inning in a nutshell, just the start of a dominant performance in a 15-0, three-inning romp over Line Mountain in a non-league softball game Saturday at Lee Reiser Field.

That the Vikings pounded out 13 hits wasn’t all that surprising, considering they have virtually every starter back from last season’s District 11 Class AA championship and state quarterfinal team. That they did it so quickly after a highly successful — but extremely long — girls’ basketball season impressed.

“I thought we played really well,” Williams Valley coach Ryan Underkoffler said. “These girls know the expectations that we have for this year. They have an intention to do a lot of good things. So, coming in this first game, a lot of the girls only had one week of practice, and to put on a show like we did today, we were looking very good.”

Ella Kobularik sparked the offense by going 2-for-2 with a double, a triple and a run scored. Kobularik led off the bottom of the first with her three-bagger to deep right and promptly scored on Kayla Hand’s sacrifice fly. Winning pitcher Sage Smeltz followed a one-hop tracer off the fence in straightaway center field, and Williams Valley was off and running. Later in the uprising, Olivia Hand, Ally Underkoffler and Kamri Koppenhaver delivered consecutive RBI singles, and Miley Mahoney followed with an RBI double.

It was more of the same in the second inning. Sage Smeltz led off with a ringing double to deep left, and Quin Smeltz followed with an RBI single. Audrina Fry’s RBI single, Underkoffler’s RBI double and Koppenhaver’s sacrifice fly made it 10-0.

In the third, Line Mountain’s defense made five errors, leading to five more runs that ended the game via the 15-run rule just as rain began to fall.

Williams Valley got contributions up and down the lineup. A sampling: Sage Smeltz went 2-for-3 with a double; Fry drove in three runs and scored twice; Underkoffler finished 2-for-2 with a double, two runs and two RBIs; Koppenhaver knocked in a pair of runs; and Mahoney went 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI.

Among Williams Valley’s 13 hits, the Vikings bashed four doubles and a triple.

In the field, Sage Smeltz tossed a one-hitter, striking out two and walking one.

Line Mountain’s Mateyah Teter led off the top of the first inning with a sharp single to right, but she quickly got erased when catcher Quin Smeltz threw her out trying to steal second.

Game Summary

LINE MOUNTAIN (0) — Teter ss 2 0 1 0, Barwick cf 1 0 0 0, Grindstaff p-ss 1 0 0 0, Leitzel c 1 0 0 0, Snyder 1b-2b 1 0 0 0, Hayes dp-1b 1 0 0 0, Ulrich 2b 1 0 0 0, Nelson 3b 1 0 0 0, Ebersole rf-p 1 0 0 0, Motter lf 0 0 0 0. Totals 10 0 1 0.

WILLIAMS VALLEY (15) — Kobularik ss 2 1 2 0, K. Hand cf 1 1 0 1, S. Smeltz p 3 0 2 0, Ziegler cr 0 3 0 0, Q. Smeltz c 2 0 1 1, Heisey cr 0 3 0 0, Fry 1b 3 2 1 3, O. Hand 3b 3 1 1 1, Underkoffler 2b 2 2 2 2, Brill ph 1 1 0 0, Koppenhaver dp 1 1 1 2, Mahoney lf 2 0 2 1, Perhach ph 1 0 0 0, Bixler rf 1 0 0 0. Totals 22 15 13 11.

LM (1-1)                000 — 0

WV (1-0)              645 — 15

E — Line Mountain 6, Williams Valley 1

DP — None

LOB — Line Mountain 2, Williams Valley 2

2B — Mahoney, S. Smeltz, Underkoffler, Kobularik

3B — Kobularik

SB — Ziegler, O. Hand, Fry

CS — Teter, Mahoney

SF — K. Hand, Koppenhaver

Line Mountain

                                       IP     H      R       ER    BB    K

Grindstaff L               2       11       10       5       0       0

Ebersole                     .2       2        5        0       1       0

Williams Valley

                  IP     H      R       ER    BB    K

S. Smeltz W,1-0     3       1       0       0       1       2

HBP — by Grindstaff (Kobularik), by Ebersole (K. Hand). WP — Grindstaff 3. PB — Leitzel. T — 0:52.

Pottsville 21, Governor Mifflin 7

SHILLINGTON — Peyton Eckert went 4-for-5 with a home run, three runs scored and three RBIs to lead Pottsville’s hit parade in a non-league rout of Governor Mifflin.

The Crimson Tide clubbed 22 hits by 12 different players in the five-inning victory.

Lana Cromyak went 2-for-4 with a home run, three runs and three RBIs, while Aubrey Scanlan went 3-for-4 with three triples, four runs scored and three RBIs for Pottsville.

Other top hitters included Jes Siminitus, 2-for-2 with a double and two runs; Reese Ketner, 2-for-5 with a double, three runs and one RBI; and Izabella Kunstek, 3-for-5 with one run and one RBI.

Potts (2-1)                    457      23 — 21        22       1      

GM (0-3)                  004      30 — 7        10       7

Eckert, Moyer (5) and Wessner, Templeton (5); Brunelli, Wagner (3) and Diaz. W— Eckert (2-1). L — Brunelli.

HITS: Pottsville — Siminitus 2, Borger, Yost, McGeoy, Cromyak 2, Eckert 4, Ketner 2, Scanlan 3, Kalovcak, Kunstek 3, Wessner, Barnhart. Governor Mifflin — Barto 2, Grosch, Brunelli 3, Hoover, Hoffman, Lehr, Addis.

2B — Ketner, Yost, Siminitus, Barto, Brunelli. 3B — Scanlan 3, Grosch. HR — Eckert, Cromyak.