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Complete
Box Score
EDINBORO, PA – With Vanessa Rose
(Akron, OH/Manchester) throwing a three-hitter, the Edinboro
University softball team knocked off the number one team in
Division II on Friday. The Fighting Scots defeated Lock Haven,
1-0, in the first game of a doubleheader.
Lock Haven, the defending national champion,
visited Edinboro riding a 32-game winning streak. That included a
pair of wins over Edinboro ten days ago by scores of 3-0 and 4-1.
The Lady Eagles’ lone loss was a 5-2 setback to Ashland on
March 3.
Rose was the hard-luck loser in both games the
first time around, but this time the junior left hander made one
run stand up. She outdueled Lock Haven ace Kristin Erb, giving up
just three singles while matching her career high with 13
strikeout. Rose did not walk a batter while posting her sixth
shutout. Two of the hits were infield singles. Erb gave up just
two hits, both in the fourth inning when Edinboro scored its lone
run, and struck out nine. The sophomore is now 25-1.
Erb was perfect through the first three
innings, but with one out in the fourth inning, Rose reached base
on an error, and moved to second on another error on the play. She
advanced to third on a groundout to shortstop by Dana Webb
(Amherst, NY/Williamsville South) and scored when Mandie
Iorfido (Ambridge, PA/Ambridge) poked a two-out single through
the right side. Danielle Arno (Manlius,
NY/Fayetteville-Manlius) followed with a single to put runners
on first and second, but Erb escaped any further damage as Leanne
Carmichael (Pinehurst, MA/Billerica Memorial) grounded out to
second base.
Lock Haven put runners on base in each of the
last three innings, but could not score. In the fourth inning
Sarah Norris was hit by a pitch to start the inning, and later
stole second, but she was stranded as Rose struck out Amanda
Gutmaker. Julia Popovich reached on an infield single with one out
in the sixth, but the Fighting Scots recorded a strike-em-out,
throw-em-out double play, with Rose fanning Devin Glezen and
Iorfido throwing out Popovich at second.
In the top of the seventh, Erb popped out to
second, but Ilia Lopez hit a line drive down the left field line
for a single. Norris lined out to centerfield, and Rose recorded
her 13th strikeout to end the game, fanning Amanda Roosa.
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