THE FACTS
Gettysburg (27-11) 5, Muhlenberg (25-15) 4
What: Centennial Conference softball tournament
When: Saturday, May 4
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg scored four runs in the second inning to open up a 5-2 lead and held on to defeat Muhlenberg 5-4 in the winner's bracket game of the 2024 Centennial Conference (CC) tournament.
THE LEADERS
•
Carlie Goldstein (Verona, N.J./Verona) led the Bullets with a hit and two RBIs.
•
Lily Mader (Las Vegas, Nev./Valley) added a 2-for-3 day.
•
Paige Forry (Reading, Pa./Schuylkill Valley) went the distance in the circle with five strikeouts and one walk, allowing just two earned runs.
FOR THE FOES
• Gillian Zak was one of three Mules to record two hits, adding a pair of RBIs on her two base knocks.
THE REST OF THE STORY
•
Julia Smith (Marydel, Md./Queen Anne's County) doubled to the gap with one out in the bottom of the first before
Giovanna Komst (Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry) was hit by a pitch. After a runner's interference call put
Allegra DeCandia (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) on base with two outs, a fielding error allowed Komst to score for a 1-0 lead.
• Skyla Campisi singled with one out in the second before Brianna Kessler was hit by a pitch. After a sacrifice put both runners in scoring position. An error then scored both for a 2-1 Muhlenberg advantage.
•
Lily Mader poked a leadoff single up the middle in the second before going first to third on a sacrifice and scoring the tying the run on an
Anika Pelekis (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) double to right. An
Audrey Bergan (Encinitas, Calif./La Jolla Country Day School) single up the middle plated Mader from second with the go-ahead run. After a walk to Smith and wild pitch moved both runners into scoring position, Komst was hit by a pitch for the second time in as many innings to load the bases.
Carlie Goldstein drove a ball to center with two outs for a 5-3 lead before an out at third ended the inning.
• Kaya Mahy singled to lead off the fifth before a sacrifice and two-out Gillian Zack single through the left side made it 5-3 in the fifth.
• Mahy then once again led off the seventh with a single before a two-out Zack single up the middle scored her from second to cut the deficit to one.
Paige Forry, however, got a groundball to get out of it and notch the win.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Weather and field conditions in Chestertown forced a change to the tournament format on Saturday morning. Muhlenberg traveled to Gettysburg for the winner's bracket game. Swarthmore and Washington will meet in the tournament's first elimination game on Wednesday with the final three games being played a site yet to be determined on Saturday.
• The Bullets won their first two tournament games for just the second time in 16 tournament appearances and will need to win just one game next Saturday to claim their sixth conference championship.
NEXT UP
Details for the remainder of the tournament will be announced following Wednesday's elimination game.
