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The Edinboro softball split their games on the
second day of a Florida trip. The Fighting Scots (5-1) started
their day by defeating St. Michael’s 8-3. Later the team
suffered their first defeat of the year, falling to Winona State
8-3.
Edinboro 8, St.
Michael’s 3
Winona State 8, Edinboro
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Edinboro 8, St.
Michael’s 3
The Edinboro softball team improved to 5-0 this afternoon with an
8-3 victory over St. Michael’s. Mary Lynn Arlotta
(N. Tonawanda, NY/ Mount St. Mary Academy) improved to 2-0
with the win. The sophomore hurled seven innings, giving up three
runs on eight hits while striking out nine. Arlotta pitched 26.1
total innings as a freshman and has already thrown 14 in two
appearances this season. She now has 10 strikeouts, six less than
she threw all of her freshman campaign.
The Fighting Scots’ offense struck early
and often, building a comfortable eight run lead that would hold
until the top of the fifth inning. In the bottom of the first,
freshman Dana Webb (Amherst, NY/Williamsville South)
tripled to right center with two outs and then scored on a single
by Vanessa Rose (Akron, OH/Manchester).
Mandie Iorfido (Ambridge, PA/Ambridge)
led off the second with a double and would score on Cyndi
Carnaghi’s (White Plains, NY/White Plains) single.
Carnaghi stole second then hustled to third on a passed ball.
Freshman Katelyn Gurgiolo (Stow, OH/Medina) reached on an
error that allowed Carnaghi to score. Two more St. Michael’s
errors plated Gurgiolo.
In the bottom of the third, Carnaghi would
drive in the Fighting Scots fifth run of the game with a single to
left scoring Danielle Arno (Manlius, NY/Fayetteville-Manlius).
Edinboro would add two more runs in the bottom
of the fourth when Gurgiolo drew a walk to lead off and then stole
second base easily. Jessica Lindamood (Hartville, OH/Lake)
crushed a double to plate Gurgiolo and would move to third on Arno’s
single. Iorfido then singled to score Lindamood for the Fighting
Scots final run of the game.
St. Michael’s would score its first run in
the top of the fifth and would add two runs in the top of the
seventh via an Edinboro error and a two-run homer by St. Michael’s
Meg Currier.
Winona State 8,
Edinboro 3
After defeating St. Michael’s 8-3 in the game prior, the
Fighting Scots fell by the same score in the second game of the
day to Winona St., ranked 22nd in Division II by the National
Fastpitch Coaches Association.
Both teams went down in order to open the game
but the Warriors jumped on sophomore Vanessa Rose (Akron,
OH/Manchester) for two runs in the top of the second to take
the early lead.
Edinboro would answer with one run in the
bottom half of the inning. With one out, Mandie Iorfido
(Ambridge, PA/Ambridge) singled and stole second base. Leanne
Carmichael (Pinehurst, MA/Billerica Memorial) drove a 1-2
offering into the outfield and to plate Iorfido and cut the
Warriors lead to 2-1.
Edinboro retired the side in order in the top
of the third and had a chance to tie the game in the bottom of the
third. Hannah Kipfer (Meadville, PA/Meadville) singled
with one out and moved to third on Dana Webb’s (Amherst,
NY/Williamsville South) deep single to center with two outs.
Webb tried to steal second but was gunned down by the Warriors
catcher for the final out of the inning.
The Warriors added two runs again in the top of
the fourth inning. With two outs and runners on second and third,
Winona St.’s Jenny Dobbertin roughed up the Fighting Scots
again. The first baseman uncorked a double to left field, driving
in her third and fourth RBI’s of the game. She would finish
the game with 5 RBI’s.
Edinboro would score for the last time in the
bottom of the fifth. Freshman Danielle Arno (Manlius,
NY/Fayetteville-Manlius) blasted a leadoff home run over the
right center fence to score Edinboro’s third run of the game.
Kipfer grounded out to the shortstop for the first out. Jessica
Lindamood (Hartville, OH/Lake) drilled a single and would
score on Webb’s triple to right center that fell just inches
short of being a two-run home run.
Winona St. scored again scored two runs in the
top of the sixth and plated two more runs in the top of the
seventh for the final score. All but one of the Warriors runs were
scored with two outs.
Rose went the distance for the Fighting Scots,
throwing six innings and allowing eight runs on seven hits while
striking out five. The sophomore is 1-1 overall.
Offensively, Webb went 1-3 with an RBI. The
freshman is hitting .400 and three of her four extra base hits
have been triples. Arno went 2-3 at the plate while Iorfido went
1-3 with a run scored. Carmichael went 1-2 with an RBI.
The Fighting Scots will play their final two
games at Ft. Myers on Friday at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. The first game
is a rematch of the season opener against Wilmington which the
Fighting Scots won 3-2. In the second game, Edinboro will face
Winona St.
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