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COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – Senior Erin Ober (Lutherville, Md./Dulaney) and freshman Adrienne Rahs (Bethlehem, Pa./Saucon Valley) hit RBI singles in the 11th inning to help Gettysburg College earn a 5-4 victory over defending Centennial Conference champion Ursinus College in the nightcap of the teams' scheduled softball doubleheader on Saturday. The Bears won the opener 2-1 in a pitcher's duel between Gettysburg's Kristy Rubino (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany) and Ursinus' Lauren Davis.

Ursinus (22-6, 8-2 CC) and Gettysburg (20-9-1, 5-4-1 CC), the last two CC champions, entered Saturday in first and fourth, respectively, in the conference standings. After two and a half scoreless innings in the opener, the Bears struck first by loading the bases and notching a pair of run-scoring singles.

Gettysburg answered in the top of the fourth with an RBI single by Rahs to plate Ober, who walked earlier in the frame. Still threatening with runners on second and third with one out, the Bullets came up empty as Davis fanned a pair of hitters to get out of the jam.

The final three innings of play resulted in only one hit for each team. Davis finished with 14 strikeouts in the game and allowed only three hits, while Rubino fanned six and allowed seven base knocks with no walks.

Junior Sarah Woodbury (Audobon, Pa./Mt. St. Joseph Academy) finished 2-for-3 in the opener for Gettysburg.

The Bullets scored first in the nightcap as sophomore Megan Lott (Bellsville, Md./Pallotti) plated senior Nicole Yannotta (Whippany, N.J./Whippany Park) with a double in the third inning. Gettysburg tacked on another score in the fifth with Yannotta providing an RBI single.

Ursinus answered with solo runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Junior Beth McCullough (Ft. Wayne, Ind./Homestead) and Davis retired the side in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings to keep the deadlock intact. With the international tiebreaker rule in effect to start the 10th, Gettysburg took advantage with an RBI groundout by Yannotta and the Bears answered in the bottom half of the frame with a run scored via a Bullet error.

Ober singled in Yannotta with one out in the 11th, and came around to score on a two-out single by Rahs to put the visitors up 5-3. Ursinus brought in the placed runner to cut the deficit and threatened to tie the game with a runner on second and no outs on the board. McCullough came through in the 11th hour for Gettysburg, inducing consecutive fly outs to each part of the outfield to cap the game.

McCullough picked up the win for the Bullets, improving to 10-3 after allowing just six hits, four runs (one earned), and striking out three. Davis (21-7) was handed the loss after allowing eight hits, five runs (three earned), one walk, and striking out eight.

Yannotta finished 3-for-5 at the dish with two runs and two RBI. Rahs posted two hits among five at bats and Ober reached base twice via a hit and a walk.

The Bullets jump back in the fray tomorrow (April 19) by hosting a doubleheader against Swarthmore College at 1 p.m.