SCRANTON — Tori Para was selected as Most Valuable Player of her team in a senior all-star game for the second straight week.

She again, however, had to settle for MVP on the losing side.

One of the leaders of Pittston Area’s unbeaten, state championship team, Para was part of a shorthanded squad of Wyoming Valley Conference players that fell to the Lackawanna League, 5-3, in the second annual game, organized by 570 Sports Show, at Connell Park.

Pittston Area head coach Frank Parente and his staff led the WVC team, which had just eight players, compared to the 21 for the Lackawanna League.

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The WVC went with an eight-player batting order and borrowed a different right fielder from the Lackawanna each inning. When Pittston Area center fielder Sage Weidlich was pulled from the game for precautionary reasons after crashing into the fence in the bottom of the fourth inning, the WVC finished with seven players and help from two outfielders from the Lackawanna.

Half of the WVC team was from Pittston Area.

Para and Lake-Lehman’s Jillian Ulozas hit back-to-back home runs with two out in the top of the third inning for a 2-1 lead. Para, who started at shortstop and also pitched, singled to lead off the seventh and scored.

The WVC got the tying runs to second and third with two out in the top of the seventh before Lackawanna MVP Julie Schriver from North Pocono escaped trouble by handling an easy groundball herself.

Schriver did not allow an earned run and gave up just three hits – two by Santuk and one by Para – in her four innings of relief. She was the winning pitcher.

Weidlich led off the game with a single for the WVC and finished 1-for-2.

Para batted second and wound up 2-for-4 with the two runs and an RBI. She gave up four runs on four hits in two innings as a pitcher.

Skylar Borthwick started at third base and also played shortstop. She was 0-for-4, reaching on an error in the seventh.

Jiana Moran played left field and went 0-for-3.

Para was also the MVP for the East in last week’s Robert Dolbear Senior All-Star Game for WVC players, sponsored by the Dallas Kiwanis Club.