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FORT
MYERS, FL -
The Saint Joseph's College Softball team lost both of their games
in extra innings on the team's second day of their Florida trip. FY
Alyssa Dunn (Standish, ME) collected 5 hits in the
two games. St. Joe's is off to a 1-3 start this season and will next
play on Thursday when they take on Tri-State and Wisconsin Lutheran.
In the first game of the day against WPI (MA), St. Joe's managed to
put three runs on the board in the third inning by way of some nifty
baserunning and clutch hitting. JR Liz Jordan
(Sandwich, MA) singled with one out and proceeded to steal both second
and third base before being sent home via a JR Alysn
Ludwig (Waldoboro, ME) single. Ludwig
went on to steal second base to get into scoring position for SO Liddy
van der Linden (Worcester, MA), who drove her home with a
single. SO Jillian Kimball (Albany TWP, ME) walked
and later scored on an error made by the WPI leftfielder to account
for the third run. SO pitcher Christy Wezowicz (Granville,
MA) held the Engineers batters in check through five innings before
allowing 2 runs in the sixth inning to cut the SJC lead to 3-2. WPI's
JR Nicole Maglione (Charlton, MA) tied the game with a solo home run
in the seventh inning to the send the game into extra innings.
WPI pushed a run across the plate in the top of the eighth to take
the 4-3 lead. St. Joe's countered with a run in the bottom of the
inning as Liddy van der Linden scored off an FY Alyssa
Dunn (Standish, ME) struck-ball that was misplayed
by the Engineers' first baseman to tie the game at four apiece. WPI
exploded for 5 runs in the top of the ninth with four runs coming
off the bat of SO Meg Foley (Belchertown, MA), who connected for a
grand slam home run to help the Engineers take a commanding 9-4 lead
in the extra frame, a lead they would not relinquish.
For St. Joe's, starting pitcher Christy Wezowicz
threw seven innings and scattered seven hits, allowed two earned runs
and two walks while striking out seven. Alyssa Dunn
was 3-4 with a double; Liz Jordan
went 2-3 with a double, two stolen bases and a run scored and Alysn
Ludwig was 2-3 with a run, RBI and two stolen bases.
FY Kiera Walsh (Benton, ME) took
the loss in relief.
In the team's second game of the day, St. Joe's squared off against
St. Mary's College (IN). SJC was behind 4-0 after five innings of
play as St. Mary's pushed two runs across the plate in both the 3rd
and 5th innings. It appeared that St. Joe's would be shut out after
an emotional loss in the first game of the day, but the Lady Monks
rallied to score four runs in the bottom of the seventh to force extra
innings. FY Kayla Soucy (Colebrook,
NH) led off the inning with a single and Liz Jordan,
Anna Willis and Jillian
Kimball all followed with base knocks to begin the
inning and Liddy van der Linden
smacked a double to drive in three runs during the last inning offensive
surge. St. Mary's scored a run in the top of the eighth to take the
lead and St. Joe's stranded two runners on base in the bottom of the
inning to take their second hard-fought loss of the day.
Jillian Kimball went 2-4 at the
plate with a run and an RBI and Alyssa Dunn
was 2-3 with a double in the defeat. Starting pitcher Kiera
Walsh went the distance and allowed four earned runs,
nine hits and one walk while striking out two batters in eight innings
of work.
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