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<p>STATE COLLEGE &#8212; So much for that scoreless streak.</p><p>Holy Redeemer not only ended Moniteau&#8217;s run of 11 consecutive shutouts in the first inning, the Royals obliterated it.</p><p>Redeemer scored five runs in its first trip to the plate as it went on to win its second consecutive PIAA Class 2A state softball title with a 9-3 victory at Penn State University.</p><p>Redeemer (25-3) became only the fourth program in PIAA softball history to win consecutive softball titles. District 9 champion Moniteau, which was making its first appearance in a title game, finished at 24-2.</p><p>Morgan Bienkowski opened the game for Redeemer with a single and moved to second on a groundout. Olivia Mennig followed with a grounder to third baseman Sara Hull. Hull threw across the diamond to get Mennig, but the throw back to third hit Bienkowski, ricocheted into left field and allowed her to score. The last run against Moniteau came on April 30 when the Warriors lost 5-4 to Phillipsburg-Oceola.</p><p>The Royals weren&#8217;t done.</p><p>Redeemer then loaded the bases on walks to Tiana Wren and Brittany Hebda and a single by Kristen Coffay. Wren would have scored on Coffay&#8217;s single if not for colliding with Moniteau shortstop Cortney Claypoole.</p><p>No problem as Shorts walked to force in a run and Meghan Armstrong cleared the bases with a single to left that was booted for Moniteau&#8217;s second error of the inning. Armstrong was thrown out at third on the play, but the damage was done. The Royals had scored five runs against a team which allowed only 13 all season.</p><p>&#8220;It gave us a lot of confidence and a lot of momentum going in,&#8221; said Redeemer&#8217;s Sam Rajza, the only Royal not to bat in the first inning. &#8220;I feel like we were less nervous and if we kept playing defense we&#8217;d be good.&#8221;</p><p>The first inning didn&#8217;t help the confidence of Moniteau pitcher Kennedy DeMatteis. She came into the game with 227 strikeouts and a 0.75 ERA. She ended up surrendering six earned runs in all and recorded her only strikeout in the seventh inning.</p><p>&#8220;I tried the hit the corners,&#8221; DeMatteis said. &#8220;But he wasn&#8217;t giving me the corners.&#8221;</p><p>Moniteau bounced back a little in the bottom of the first as DeMatteis singled and scored on a double by her sister Kristina. The run also gave Redeemer a bit of a flashback to last year when Deer Lakes blew an early 5-2 lead against the Royals in the championship game.</p><p>&#8220;In a way, yeah we did (warn them),&#8221; Redeemer coach Jerry Paulukonis said. &#8220;We said, &#8216;Remember what happened to them last year.&#8217; They let down and we came back on them. We told them don&#8217;t let that happen. And they didn&#8217;t. They kept pressing the whole game.</p><p>&#8220;To be honest with you, it was probably the first game where when we were up they kept pressing. They didn&#8217;t let off.&#8221;</p><p>Kennedy DeMatteis continued to display control issues in the third, issuing walks to Hebda and Armstrong around a single by Shorts to load the bases. Rajza then worked a bases-loaded walk to make it 6-1.</p><p>Moniteau cut the deficit to 6-2 on an RBI double by Kennedy DeMatteis in the bottom of the third. But the Warriors, who had six players hitting .500 or better, managed just two hits after that. Both came in the fifth as Gabby Stewart sliced a double down the left-field line and scored on Claypoole&#8217;s single.</p><p>Redeemer, though, answered with two more runs in the sixth. Mennig walked with one out and moved to second on a wild pitch. Wren followed with a single, moving Mennig to third. Then after Wren stole second, Moniteau tried to pick her off, but botched the play and Mennig scored. Wren made it 9-3 by scoring on Coffay&#8217;s fielder&#8217;s choice.</p><p>Moniteau went quietly in the seventh against Bienkowski, who pitched the last four innings. As right fielder Randie Kuhar squeezed the final out in her glove, it set off a celebration on the field. It was also a bittersweet moment for Mennig, the only senior in the starting lineup.</p><p>&#8220;I never want to get too excited because you never know what could happen in an inning,&#8221; Mennig said of the seventh inning. &#8220;When we had two outs, I started to cry a little bit because I knew it was my last game and we were going to win it.&#8221;</p><p>Mennig&#8217;s last game nearly had to wait a day.</p><p>Rain forced the postponement of the Class 4A contest, which was scheduled to be the final of four games at the stadium. The second game, the Class 3A contest, started about two hours late. Redeemer&#8217;s game was scheduled to start at 3 p.m. PIAA officials met twice during the 3A game, checking the weather to see whether the 2A game should be rescheduled for Friday due to approaching rain.</p><p>Instead, the game began at 5:15 p.m. and the rain started to fall shortly after the game ended just after 7:30.</p><p>&#8220;Coach (Joe) Coffay kept telling us to practice like you&#8217;re going to play,&#8221; said Mennig, who along with her teammates stayed loose practicing behind the left-field wall. &#8220;No one backed off because you had the mindset that you were going to play today.&#8221;</p><p>Like Redeemer, Moniteau returns most of its starters in 2017. Only two will depart, leaving coach Dan Beebe with some optimism despite the loss.</p><p>&#8220;If we can get back here on this stage, hopefully we&#8217;ll be better for it,&#8221; Beebe said.</p><p><strong>Redeemer`AB`R`H`BI</strong></p><p>Bienkowski ss`5`1`4`1</p><p>Laiuvara dp`5`0`0`0</p><p>Mennig 2b`4`1`0`0</p><p>Wren cf`3`2`1`0</p><p>Hebda 3b`1`2`0`0</p><p>Coffay p`3`1`2`1</p><p>Shorts c`3`2`1`1</p><p>Armstrong 1b`2`0`1`1</p><p>Rajza lf`2`0`2`1</p><p>Janowski ph`1`0`0`0</p><p><strong>Totals`29`9`11`5</strong></p><p><strong>Moniteau`AB`R`H`BI</strong></p><p>Stewart rf`4`1`1`0</p><p>Claypoole ss`4`1`1`1</p><p>KeDeMatteis p`3`1`2`1</p><p>KrDeMatteis c`3`0`1`1</p><p>Hull 3b`2`0`1`0</p><p>Hepler 1b`3`0`0`0</p><p>Dailey 2b`3`0`0`0</p><p>Sowinski lf`3`0`0`0</p><p>Greaves cf`3`0`1`0</p><p><strong>Totals`28`3`7`3</strong></p><p><strong>Holy Redeemer`501`012`0`&#8212;`9</strong></p><p><strong>Moniteau`101`010`0`&#8212;`3</strong></p><p>E &#8211; Redeemer 1, Moniteau 4. 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