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Game 1
Game 2
EDINBORO, PA – In a case of what a
difference two weeks can make, the Edinboro University softball
team dropped a pair of games at Slippery Rock this afternoon. The
Rock won the first game, 3-1, then outscored the Fighting Scots,
12-11, in the nightcap.
The losses drop Edinboro to 10-16 overall and
3-5 in PSAC West action, while Slippery Rock improves to 16-16
overall and 3-7 in league play. Edinboro entered the doubleheader
ranked one spot ahead of The Rock in the Mid-Atlantic Region
rankings, with the Fighting Scots sixth and SRU seventh.
The two setbacks came just two weeks after
Edinboro swept The Rock at home by scores of 5-0 and 8-0 as
Vanessa Rose hurled both shutouts.
Slippery Rock managed just eight hits in the
two games against Rose, but this time around it managed seven hits
in the opener, then pounded out 16 hits in the second game,
chasing Rose after two innings. It marked the first game Rose did
not complete in 16 starts.
In the opener, Courtney Conron held the
Fighting Scots to just five hits. The lone run scored on Leanne
Carmichael’s second home run of the season in the top of the
sixth inning. Dana Webb went 2-for-4.
Slippery Rock scored a run in the fourth inning
on a groundout by Sheree Horvath, then plated two more on a home
run by Kayla Ray in the bottom of the fifth inning. Rose struck
out ten and did not allow a walk in the first game.
The second game quickly became a slugfest, as
Edinboro opened the game with four runs in the first, three in the
second and one in the third, with Slippery Rock countering with
two runs in the first, five in the second, and one in the third to
leave the score knotted at 8-8 after three innings.
Edinboro took an 11-8 lead in the top of the
fourth inning thanks to three hits and a pair of SRU errors. Webb
doubled in one run, and Jessica Lindamood drove in another with a
single. Back came Slippery Rock with an unearned run off Lindamood
in the bottom of the frame to make it 11-9 after four innings.
Slippery Rock inserted Horvath to throw in the
top of the fifth inning, and she held the Fighting Scots to just
two hits the rest of the way. The Rock, meanwhile, pushed across
three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take a 12-11 lead.
Danielle Abbarno drove in a pair with a triple , and Ray’s
sacrifice fly scored Abbarno with the winning run. Edinboro went
down in order in the top of the seventh.
The 11 runs marked the second-highest total for
the Scots this year, and the 13 hits were tied for the
second-highest total. Slippery Rock ended with 16 hits, and Rose
and Lindamood also walked a total of five batters.
Webb led the Scots with three hits in four at
bats, driving in a pair. Carmichael was 2-for-4 and homered again,
driving in three runs in all. Danielle Arno was 2-for-4 with 2
RBIs, and Lindamood and Rose also had two hits in four at bats.
Edinboro is back in action on Tuesday, April
17, hosting Clarion in a makeup doubleheader at 2:30 p.m. |
