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Box Score 2 CHESTERTOWN, Md.
– The Salisbury University softball team
earned two more wins on Sunday, to finish out a weekend of six wins
in three days, taking down Washington (Md.) College, 12-1 and 11-1.
The wins push Salisbury's current winning streak to 13
games.
The first
game remained close through the first four frames as the Sea Gulls
could manage just two runs in the second inning on an RBI single by
senior Rachel Hastings (Westborough, Mass.) and a
run-scoring double by senior Kelly
Waskewicz (Virginia Beach, Va.).
The 2-0
lead stood until the Salisbury offense really got clicking late in
the game. The Sea Gulls scored a run in the fifth before blowing
things open with three in the sixth and six runs in the top of the
seventh. Hastings finished the game 4-for-4 at the plate, scoring
three times while seniors Jen Cahall
(Elkton, Md.), Lauren
Brenneman (York, Pa.), Ali Ritter
(Belvidere, N.J.) and Brittany Lounge (Pasadena, Md.) all had three
hits in the game. Brenneman had a pair of doubles and drove in two
runs while Cahall drove in three.
The
offensive output made pitcher Kelly
Leary (Severn, Md.) a winner for the seventh time this
season. The junior allowed just the one run on two hits while
walking one and striking out 10 batters.
In the
second game it was more of the same as the score remained close
until the Sea Gull bats exploded in the late innings. The game was
tied 1-1 until Salisbury plated 10 runs in the sixth inning on
eight hits and took advantage of three Shorewomen (6-6)
errors.
Lounge had two hits in the sixth
inning, a single that advanced the game-winning run into scoring
position and a double that drove home a run. In the game Lounge and
freshmen Michelle Gravdahl (Ellicott City, Md.) and
Carly Read (Baltimore, Md.) each had
two hits. Read had an RBI triple that drove home Salisbury's
first run in the fifth inning, tying the game.
Sophomore
Erika Brittingham (Georgetown, Del.)
earned the win for the Sea Gulls (13-2), working five innings while
allowing the one run on just three hits and striking out six
batters.
Salisbury
will get a couple days off before returning to the SU Softball
Field to host Wesley College in a Capital Athletic Conference
doubleheader on Wednesday. It will mark the first of three straight
CAC double dips.