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Elizabethtown, PA (April 19, 2012) – Freshman Rachel Vogel pitched 5.2 innings allowing just one earned runs in game two leading the DeSales University softball team to a split of its non-conference doubleheader at Elizabethtown College with a 5-4 game two win after dropping the opener, 3-0, on Thursday afternoon.

In the opener, DeSales (11-21) out-hit Elizabethtown (22-12), 9-8, but the Bulldogs left eight runners on-base and two players thrown out at the plate from leftfield in the 3-0 loss.  Freshman Taylor Kelly and senior Brianna Chilcoat once again led the offense with five of the nine hits and senior Christine Petrilla suffered the loss in the circle, pitching six innings allowing two earned runs and striking out one.

In the second game DSU trailed 2-1 entering the fifth inning when the Bulldogs scored four times to take a 5-2 lead.  Freshman Shelby Wilson, who finished with three RBIs in the game, had the big blow in the fifth, a two-run double.

Senior Katie Morrissey entered the game in the bottom of the fifth inning, relieving Vogel, who had pitched well thru the first four only allowing two unearned runs in the first inning on two Bulldog errors.  Morrissey allowed one run in the fifth and loaded the bases with three straight walks in the sixth inning before Vogel re-entered and pitched out of the one-out jam to preserve the two-run lead and pitched around a lead-off double in the seventh to preserve the game two win.

Vogel's line finished with 5.2 innings, five hits, one earned run, and three strikeouts.  T. Kelly scored twice at the top of the lineup and Wilson went 3-for-3 with three RBIs in the game two win.

The Bulldogs return to action on Saturday when they host Wilkes University in a Freedom Conference doubleheader beginning at 1:00 pm.