GAME ONE BOX

GAME TWO BOX


FAYETTEVILLE, NC—The Bloomsburg University softball team swept a pair of games from Fayetteville (NC) State on Friday winning by scores of 10-2 in six innings and 8-0 in five innings.
 
In the opener Chrissy Belko (Old Forge/Old Forge) drove in three runs and Mandi Black (Huntington Mills/Northwest Area) struckout eight in throwing a complete game for Bloomsburg. The Huskies got four runs in the first inning with Belko, Hannah Moir (Mount Laurel, NJ/Lenape ), Lyndsay Busler (Mechanicsburg/Cumberland Valley) and Raychelle Kuhns (Williamsport/Loyalsock) each getting a run batted in.
 
After Fayetteville got one back in the bottom of the first, the Huskies scored three times in the top of the fourth with Belko, Rachel Fredell (Dingmans Ferry/Delaware Valley) and Moir each getting an RBI to make it 7-1.
 
Fayetteville scored one run in the bottom of the fourth before the Huskies put the game away with two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth. In the bottom of the sixth Black closed out the win with two strikeouts and a ground out.
 
In the nightcap the Huskies Caitlin O'Connor (Rockaway, NJ/Morris Knolls) tossed a one-hitter to get the win. Bloomsburg got all the runs it would need in the top of the first inning when Erika Yanora (Tunkhannock/Tunkhannock) doubled and Mandi Baer (Douglassville/Daniel Boone) reached on a fielder's choice to put two runners on for Sam Pientack (Archbald/Valley View). The senior then blasted a three-run homer, her 11th of the season, to put Bloomsburg on top.
 
The Huskies added a run in the top of the second and put the game away with three in the fourth and one in the fifth.
 
O'Connor allowed just a third inning single and gave up just two walks to get the win.
 
Bloomsburg improves to 14-4 on the season and will play against West Virginia State and Glenville State on Saturday in Salem, Va.