Lehigh Valley’s Carpenter Cup team ended its Carpenter Cup Softball Classic run last Wednesday with a 2-1 loss in 10 innings against Tri-Cape after defeating Chester County 8-3 at FDR Park in Philadelphia.

“We were all fine,” said Whitehall’s Mackenzie Guzy. “We knew it was a fair game, but their last batter up hit it over our heads.”

Tri-Cape scored a run in the first inning and held that lead until Emmaus’s Cassie Burke doubled and then scored on Parkland’s Shauna Frank’s single in the top of the seventh inning.

In fact, Lehigh Valley, who had been hitting well and hitting big, was somewhat tripped up by Tri-Cape.

“Their pitcher was slower than what we had seen, and then she was changing speeds, and that was throwing some of us off,” Guzy said.

Even though the game went to extra innings, Lehigh Valley was still confident.

“We kept working harder, kept our minds in it, making sure runs didn’t score,” said Guzy.

In Lehigh Valley’s earlier game last Wednesday, Guzy, who was playing with a badly bruised elbow after having been hit by two pitches two days before, singled and then scored on Northampton’s Jillian Muthard’s triple to break a 3-3 tie.

“It still hurt at the time, but I worked through the pain,” she said.

Lehigh Valley went on to score another run in the fourth inning and three runs in the fifth inning for the victory.

“I think our team was very talented, we had a lot of skill, and we’re probably the best team we’ve had in awhile,” said Guzy, who was also joined by teammates, Kay Solderitch and Ashlee Brosky this year.

Lehigh Valley finished the tournament in fourth place with a record of 3-2.