The result was an 8-1 Lady Beaver win over host Clearfield.

Lady Bison pitcher Mandy Rowles allowed just two unearned runs on five hits over the first six innings of play, while Lady Beaver Leah Wallock had surrendered only one run on three hits.

But DuBois exploded for seven hits in the decisive seventh inning to make a close game look like a blowout.

"It's tough when you keep on playing tight games," Clearfield head coach Bob Dixon said. "Your pitcher can't make a mistake. We gave up a walk and a hit and things just snowballed on us. It got away from us."

DuBois pinch-hitter Lindsay Obremski walked in front of Carly Wallock, who blooped a single to left field, to start the seventh. That brought the top of the order to the plate with none out.

An Alysia Lange bunt single loaded the bases, but Clearfield recorded an out when the next batter - Kristen Wilcox - grounded into a fielder's choice.

Lady Bison shortstop Ashley Lias gunned the ball to catcher Kenzie McGovern to force Obremski.

But the next four Lady Beaver batters connected on hits.

Kristine Foltz smacked a two-run single, Lorianne Barbey belted an RBI double, Leah Wallock had an RBI single and Meg Brown added a two-run single as the DuBois lead ballooned to 8-1.

Clearfield tried to get something going off Wallock in the home half of the seventh as Julie Colesar led off with a five-pitch walk. But Wallock got the next three Lady Bisons on a popout and two groundouts to end the game.

Wallock struck out 12 Lady Bisons in the game and allowed just the one walk.

"I don't think she was throwing as hard as she has in the past, but she locates well and moves the ball around," Dixon said of Wallock. "But we had some girls take some real good pitches to hit. They were taking that first strike and maybe should have been swinging. That gets them in the hole and then she's not going to give you another good pitch to hit. If it's there, you have to jump on it, and we didn't."

McGovern had two of the three Clearfield hits and was robbed of a third on a nice defensive play.

Alanna Luzier had the other Lady Bison hit. She crushed a two-ball, one-strike offering from Wallock over the left field fence in the sixth for Clearfield's only run.

"Kenzie tore the cover off the ball," Dixon said. "And Alanna's hit was her first varsity home run. You take Kenzie and Alanna out of the lineup and we didn't really sting the ball very hard.

"We need to string some hits together. We can't get one this inning and one the next, we have to get three, four, five hits in a row and it's not happening right now."

DuBois scored the first two runs of the game in the fifth, courtesy of three Lady Bison errors. Lange and Wilcox each had RBI singles in the inning.

"All in all, we didn't play a real bad game," Dixon said. "We did have the three errors in the one inning to give them two runs."

Wilcox led all players with three hits.

Clearfield fell to 11-6 overall. The Lady Bisons play host to State College today.

DuBois-8
Lange cf 3121, Wilcox 2b 4131, Foltz 3b 3112, Barbey c 4121, L. Wallock p 3111, Brown ss 4012, Sayers 1b 4100, Jacobson dp 1100, Obremski dp 1010, C. Wallock lf 4110, Tangren (flex) rf 0000. Totals: 31-8-12-8.

Clearfield-1
Luzier 2b 3111, Butler 3b 3000, Lias ss 3000, Rowles p 3000, J. Colesar 1b 2000, Anderson cf 3000, McGovern c 3020, Morgan rf 3000, Kovalick lf 2000. Totals: 25-1-3-1.

Score by Innings
DuBois                                     000   020   6-8   12   1
Clearfield                                 000   001   0-1     3   4

Errors-Foltz; Lias 2, Luzier, Kovalick. LOB-DuBois 7, Clearfield 4. DP-DuBois 1. 2B-Barbey. HR-Luzier (solo, 6th). SAC-Foltz, Jacobson, L. Wallock. SF-Lange. WP-Rowles.

Pitching
DuBois: L. Wallock-7 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 12 SO.
Clearfield: Rowles-7 IP, 12 H, 8 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 6 SO.

WP-L. Wallock. LP-Rowles (11-6).