Center Valley, PA (April 17, 2016) – The DeSales University softball team scored five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning on game two to earn a doubleheader split with Lebanon Valley College dropping game one, 11-2, before taking game two, 10-9, in a non-conference doubleheader on Sunday afternoon.
Game One (L/2-11)
Lebanon Valley (17-11) took a 3-0 lead after two and a half innings before the Bulldogs (5-22) pulled within one run with two runs in the bottom of the third inning on RBI singles from freshman
Madeleine Nasir and freshman
Chandler Gottshall.
LVC added two more runs in the top of the fourth inning and put the game away with six runs in the top of the fifth inning to post the 11-2 win.
Junior
Alexa Beaumont led the six-hit game one attack with two hits. Senior
Elisa Andrew took the loss allowing seven runs over four innings.
Game Two (W/10-9)
DSU took a 1-0 lead on an RBI single from Nasir in the first inning and led 2-1 thru two after an RBI single from freshman
Adrianna Barone. Both team scored twice in the fourth as the Bulldogs clung to a 4-3 lead before LVC posted three runs in both the fifth and sixth innings to take a 9-4 lead.
DeSales got one run back in the bottom of the sixth inning on another RBI single from Barone and completed its comeback in the seventh with five runs to win 10-9.
Nasir started the comeback with a solo home run to lead off the inning. Gottshall singled, sophomore
Haley Frati walked, and sophomore
Andrea Artesani plated Frati with an RBI single to make it 9-7. Freshman
Sunny Greenberg knocked in junior
Katie Bearn with an RBI single and Barone came thru once again with a double plating Artesani to tie the game at nine as Greenberg was tug out at home plate with the potential game-winning run.
Beaumont came thru however one batter later with an RBI single scoring Barone giving DSU the 10-9 win.
Barone finished 3-for-4 with four RBIs in the win and Artesani also had three hits and scored twice. Beaumont was 2-for-5 with an RBI and run scored, Nasir had two hits and two RBIs, and Bearn scored twice to lead the offensive attack.
Artesani earned the win in the circle in relief pitching 1 1/3 innings allowing just one hit.
The Bulldogs are back in action on Thursday when they host William Paterson University in another non-conference doubleheader beginning at 3:30 pm.
