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EDINBORO, PA – The Edinboro University
softball team split a pair of games in the Gene Cusic Classic on
Monday. Playing in Ft. Myers, FL, the Fighting Scots won their
third straight game to open the season, edging Bentley a 3-2
defeat. In the second contest, West Chester scored a pair of runs
in the top of the seventh inning to hand Edinboro its first
defeat, 6-4.
Edinboro pounded out 23 hits, all singles, in
the two contests. In the Bentley game, the Fighting Scots opened
the scoring with a run in the second inning as Mandie Iorfido and
Jessica Lindamood singled to put runners on first and second.
Ashleigh Smith followed with an RBI single.
Bentley took a 2-1 lead with a pair of runs in
the top of the third, but the Scots scored the tying and winning
runs in the fifth inning. Katelyn Gurgiolo walked with one out,
and following a Vanessa Rose single, the Scots pulled off a double
steal to put runners on second and third. Dana Webb’s
sacrifice fly plated Gurgiolo with the tying run, and Iorfido
followed with a two-out single to drive in the winning run.
Sophomore Chelsea Bosak picked up the win on
the mound, going all seven innings. She scattered ten hits and
struck out four. Bosak did not allow a walk. Smith led the hit
parade with a 3-for-3 effort. Iorfido was 2-for-3 and Rose
2-for-4.
Edinboro totaled a season-high 13 hits in the
nightcap against fellow PSAC foe West Chester. The Golden Rams
struck for four runs in the first inning against Rose, the ace of
the Boro staff. She settled in after that to hold West Chester
without a run until the top of the seventh. Megan Harbaugh’s
two-out double drove in the winning runs.
The Fighting Scots scored a pair of runs in the
third inning, as Iorfido stroked an RBI single and Alicia Gordon
pushed across a run when she hit into a fielder’s choice.
Edinboro tied the score in the fifth inning with two more runs.
Iorfido continued her hot hitting with a single, stole second, and
moved to third on a sacrifice. Lindamood’s RBI single drove
in Iorfido, and then she scored on Abby Goetschius’
run-scoring base hit.
Rose ended up allowing seven hits and three
walks while going the distance. She gave up all six runs, four
earned, and struck out five.
Five different Fighting Scots had a pair of
hits – Smith, Iorfido, Goetschius, Rose and Webb.
Edinboro returns to action with two more
contests on Tuesday. The Fighting Scots face Bloomfield at 9 a.m.
and Bridgeport at 11 a.m. |
