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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College softball team kept the wheels rolling on its hot start with a pair of victories over visiting Elizabethtown College on Tuesday, March 17, at Bobby Jones Field. Senior
Nicole Yannotta (Whippany Park, N.J./Whippany Park) knocked home the game-winner in the sixth inning of the opener to lead the Bullets to a 4-3 decision, while junior
Sarah Woodbury (Audubon, Pa./Mt. St. Joseph Academy) provided the spark in the nightcap with a two-run double in the fifth en route to a 6-3 victory.
Gettysburg (13-1) struck first in the first contest as freshman
Catrina DelGais (Airmont, N.Y./Suffern) knocked in a run in the bottom of the second inning. After going hitless in the first three innings, Elizabethtown (3-11) appeared to figure out Bullet hurler
Kristy Rubino (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany) in the fourth inning, loading the bases with one out. Rubino's mound opponent, Julie Sebastian, aided her cause with a two-run single off the fence in center field and the Blue Jays tacked on another run before the inning was out to jump ahead 3-1.
DelGais brought around another run in the bottom half of the fourth on a double to pull the hosts to 3-2 on the scoreboard.
In the sixth, sophomore
Megan MacNabb (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) started the rally with a lead-off double and was later brought around on a single by DelGais to tie things up. With two outs and DelGais on second, Yannotta smashed a double to center field to plate the go-ahead run.
Rubino made the lead stick by striking out the final batter in the seventh, improving her season mark to 6-1. She allowed three runs on five hits and walked three, while posting eight strikeouts.
DelGais, who had four hits all season heading into Tuesday's game, was 3-for-3 with three RBI and a run scored. Yannotta was 2-for-4 and senior
Jessica Wallick (Chambersburg, Pa./Chambersburg) was 2-for-2 with a run.
Game two shaped up in s similar fashion to the opener, with the teams heading into the final three frames locked at two runs apiece. With two outs on the board in the bottom of the fifth, sophomore
Megan Lott (Bellsville, Md./Pallotti) started the charge with a single through the left side. Senior
Erin Ober (Lutherville, Md./Dulaney) followed with a single and Woodbury brought both runners home with a screaming double off the fence in center field. Junior
Beth McCullough (Ft. Wayne, Ind./Homestead) capped the scoring with a run-scoring single to plate Woodbury.
Each team posted a run in the sixth, with Gettysburg's coming on a triple by DelGais, before McCullough retired the side in the top of the seventh.
Woodbury led the Bullets bats in the nightcap with a 3-for-3, four-RBI effort. Ober and Yannotta each tallied two hits, the former scoring twice. McCullough recorded her sixth victory in as many tries by striking out five.
Gettysburg continues its non-conference slate on Thursday, March 19, with a road trip to Susquehanna University four a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.
