Kat Sharkey scores game winner; U.S. finishes 5th FIH Women’s Hockey World League Semifinals

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Penn State lands commitment from nationally regarded punter

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders jumped out to an early seven-run lead and cruised to an 8-2 victory behind a dominant Luis Severino on Sunday afternoon. The Railriders (41-30) claimed two out of three from the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (27-45) at Coca-Cola Park to earn their fourth consecutive series triumph.Severino (3-0) threw a career-best 7.2 innings with seven strikeouts and no walks. He yielded two unearned runs on four hits. Chad Billingsley (2-2) was hit hard in his second rehab start for the IronPigs. The right-hander surrendered seven runs, five earned, on seven hits before he was pulled with two out in the third.Kyle Roller crushed a moonshot to the right of the batter&#8217;s eye beyond center that scored Ben Gamel and Jose Pirela for a 3-0 advantage.Gamel followed with a two-run blast down the right field line in the second inning for a 5-0 advantage. A pair of fielding errors by Lehigh Valley sandwiched two outs. Nick Noonan and Rob Segedin delivered consecutive run-scoring hits to pad the score at 7-0.Lehigh Valley scratched across two runs in the sixth on a force play and sacrifice fly before Noonan scored on a wild pitch in the seventh to end the scoring.RailRiders 8, Lehigh Valley 2RailRiders`AB`R`H`BIGamel cf `5`2`3`2Pirela lf `3`2`1`0Refsnyder 2b `5`0`1`0Roller dh `5`1`1`3Figueroa 3b `4`1`0`0Noonan ss `4`1`2`1Segedin 1b `4`0`3`1Castillo rf `5`0`1`0Graterol c `5`1`1`0Totals `40`8`13`7Lehigh Valley`AB`R`H`BId&#8217;Arnaud 3b`3`1`0`0Henson lf `4`0`0`0Bogusevic cf `4`0`0`0Ruf 1b `3`0`1`1Canzler rf `4`0`0`0McGuiness dh `4`0`1`0Lino c `3`0`0`0Nix 2b `3`0`0`0Duran ss `3`1`2`0Totals `31`2`4`2RailRiders`340`000`100`&#8212;`8Lehigh Valley`000`002`000`&#8212;`22B &#8212; Segedin (7, Leroux), Duran (3, Severino); HR &#8212;Roller (10), Gamel (4). LOB &#8212; WBS 10; LHV 4. E &#8212; Gamel (2); d&#8217;Arnaud (12), Nix (5).RailRiders`IP`H`R`ER`BB`SOSeverino, W (3-0)`7.2`4`2`0`0`7Tyler Webb `1.1`0`0`0`0`1Lehigh Valley`IP`H`R`ER`BB`SOBillingsley, L 2-2`2.2`7`7`5`2`3Leroux `3.2`4`1`1`1`2Gutierrez `1.2`1`0`0`0`0Loewen `1.0`1`0`0`0`2

Luis Severino has career day in RailRiders win