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Box Score
EDINBORO, PA -- The Edinboro University
softball team suffered a 1-0 loss in eight innings to 19th-ranked
Bloomsburg on Friday in the second round of the NCAA Division II
Mid-Atlantic Regional at Kutztown University.
The loss dropped the Fighting Scots (20-21)
into the losers bracket of the regional, where they will meet
Shippensburg on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. The loser will be
eliminated.
For the second straight day the seventh-seeded
Fighting Scots battled a high seed, but once again the bats failed
to come alive. After managing just two hits in a 2-0 win over
second seed Kutztown on Thursday, they were held to four hits by
the third-seeded Huskies and Ashley Lynn.
Lynn and Vanessa Rose settled into a pitchers
duel, as neither team scored through seven innings. But in the
eighth inning Bloomsburg finally broke through. Nikki Shiko opened
the inning with a single. After a popout, Tara Reed drove Shiko
home with a double to left center.
Edinboro threatened in the bottom of the eighth
when Katelyn Gurgiolo singled with one out and moved to second on
an error. Lynn struck out Rose, and Dana Webb ended the game with
a groundout to second base.
Besides the eighth inning, neither team was
able to get runners into scoring position. Bloomsburg left runners
on first and third in the first inning, but Rose then proceeded to
retire 16 straight batters before giving up her lone walk to start
the seventh inning. A stolen base left the Huskies with a runner
on second, but Rose stranded the runner there.
Edinboro threatened in the sixth when Rose
doubled with one out, but that was as close as she would get to
scoring.
Rose (14-15) tossed a five-hitter while
suffering the tough loss. The junior struck out eight. Lynn gave
up four hits and struck out six to improve to 22-5. Gurgiolo had
two of Edinboro's four hits, with Rose and Jessica Lindamood
accounting for the other two. |
