THE FACTS
Shenandoah (17-6) 12, Gettysburg (9-12) 4 (Game 1 – 6 inn.)
Shenandoah (18-6) 6, Gettysburg (9-13) 1 (Game 2)
What: Non-conference softball doubleheader
When: Thursday, Apr. 2
Where: Winchester, Va.
THE SKINNY STORY
Shenandoah scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning for a 12-4 run-rule win in game before before five second-inning runs in game two helped the Hornets complete the sweep of Gettysburg, 6-1.
THE LEADERS
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Audrey Bergan (Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif./La Jolla Country Day School) led the Bullets with a hit in each game. She also drew a pair of walks and stole a base.
FOR THE FOES
• Cadence Rieg led the Hornets with four hits and four RBIs on the day.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Gettysburg jumped out to a 1-0 lead in game one.
Audrey Bergan and
Jamie Shaw (Mount Airy, Md./Glenelg) led off the game with back-to-back infield singles before a wild pitch and one-out sacrifice fly from
Renee Laczkowski (Erie, Colo./Erie) scored Shaw for a 1-0 lead.
• A two-out home run from Paige Eagleton in the bottom of the second tied the contest at 1-all. Three straight singles, including a pair of bunt hits, followed before a bases-loaded walk to Cadence Rieg gave Shenandoah a 2-1 lead. A wild pitch and two more walks stretched the lead to 4-1.
• A two-out walk to Bergan followed by a Shaw single and Laczkowski walk loaded the bases in the top of the third.
Anika Pelekis (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) followed with a two-run single to center to make it 4-3.
• An Eagleton walk and two-out single from Payton Jensen pushed the lead back to 5-3 in the bottom of the frame.
• A two-run double stretched the lead to 7-3 before a two-out error and Sarah Medellin single to right made it 8-3 in the fourth.
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Abby Todd (Roebling, N.J./Northern Burlington County Regional) singled up the middle to start the top of the sixth before pinch-runner
Zoe Brennan (Arlington, Va./Yorktown) scored on a two-out
Abigail Gold (Apex, N.C./Apex) RBI single before four straight hits, including a pair of doubles, in the bottom of the inning ended the game, 12-4.
• In the nightcap, Eagleton and Medellin both singled with one out before a three-run Jensen home run staked the Hornets to a 3-0 lead in the second. An error and two-run Rieg homer made it 5-0.
• A two-out Bergan single, wild pitch, hit batter and Leczkowski single to center made it 5-1 in the third but Shenandoah got the run back in the bottom of the inning on a single, walk, stolen bases and error.
THE INSIDE STORY
• In game one,
Jamie Shaw and
Abigail Gold both had two hits.
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Renee Laczkowski had two hits in game two.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at home against Ursinus on Saturday. The first game of the doubleheader begins at 1 p.m.
