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EDINBORO, PA – Gannon won the battle of
local softball rivals on Tuesday as the 19th-ranked Golden Knights
came away with a pair of one-run wins over Edinboro. Edinboro
dropped the first game by a 2-1 score, then in the nightcap
rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to send
the game into extra innings, only to lose 3-2 in eight innings.
Edinboro falls to 10-12 overall while Gannon
improves to 20-8. The Fighting Scots are scheduled to host Clarion
in a PSAC West doubleheader on Friday at 2 p.m.
Vanessa Rose was the hard-luck loser in the
first game, tossing a four-hitter with a walk and three strikeouts
against a Gannon team which came in with a .372 team batting
average. The left hander gave up a run in the first inning Holli
Michaels singled with one out and scored on Carol Kienzl’s
double. Gannon went up 2-0 in the top of the fourth inning as Kara
Hensly hit her fifth home run of the season with two outs.
Freshman Kelsey Brickman made the two runs
stand up as she also hurled a four-hitter, with a walk and five
strikeouts. Edinboro’s lone run came in the bottom of the
fifth inning. Ashleigh Smith smashed a double with one out, and
after moving to third on a sacrifice, scored on Rose’s
single. Brickman would retire the final seven batters of the game
to quell any Boro comeback hopes. Rose went 2-for-3.
Brickman also threw the second game, and while
giving up ten hits, she constantly pitched out of trouble as
Edinboro left ten runners on base. She again walked just one and
struck out five.
Jessica Lindamood did not allow a hit over the
first three innings, but Gannon pushed across two runs in the top
of the fourth inning. With one out Kienzl lined a single to
center. Steph Christ followed with a double over Rose’s head
in center field to score Kienzl. Christ moved to third on Casee
Piquet’s single and scored on a groundout to second by
Hensly.
Edinboro left the base loaded in the fourth
inning, and runners on first and second in the fifth, but finally
broke through with a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh
inning. Katelyn Gurgiolo was hit by a pitch to start the inning,
and would move up to second on an errant pickoff throw by the
catcher. The Boro shortstop scored on Dana Webb’s triple to
right center, and Webb scored when the relay throw got past the
third baseman.
Using the international tiebreaker in the
eighth, Jaclyn Corroto started on second base for the Knights. A
wild pitch moved her to third, and she would eventually score on a
lineout to center by Christ. Edinboro was unable to move Arno
around from second in the bottom of the inning, as Brickman struck
out two of the three batters.
Lindamood threw a strong game in defeat. The
senior gave up just five hits, with a pair of walks and two
strikeouts. Alicia Gordon, Webb and Rose all went 2-for-4 at the
plate for the Scots.
After seeing her 39-game hitting streak snapped
on Sunday against Wayne State, Gannon’s Corroto went 0-for-7
in the twinbill. She came in hitting .532. |
