Softball | 3/13/2019 4:05:00 PM
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Box Score 2 GREENEVILLE, TN -
Taylor Winkelman (Springfield, Pa/Springfield) went 5-for-9 with five runs batted in on the day, but the Bloomsburg University softball team lost both ends of a doubleheader at Tusculum College Wednesday afternoon. The Pioneers exploded for eight runs in the third inning en route to a 9-5 win in game one, and would use a five-run sixth inning to take game two by a final of 11-9.
Trailing 6-3 heading into the fifth inning of game two, the Huskies erupted for five runs in the top half of the frame to take an 8-6 lead.
Alexa Erney (Carlisle, Pa./Cumberland Valley) got things going with an RBI single that scored
Kelsey Impink (Schwenksville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley), and
Julia Knight (Kennett Square, Pa./Unionville) followed with a single that plated
Sammi Starr (Berwick, Pa./21st Century Cyber Charter). Winkelman knocked in two more runs with a double to left center, and
Briannah Dobson (York, Pa./Central York) scored the final run of the inning on a groundout from
Danielle Barnes (Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh).
Bloomsburg extended its lead to three in the top of the sixth inning when
Marissa Shelhamer (Bloomsburg, Pa./Central Columbia) belted her first home run of the season off Ivee Richesin, but the lead would not last long. Tusculum punched back with five runs in the bottom of the sixth to retake the lead, and Richesin would shut the door with a scoreless seventh.
Winkelman was 3-for-5 with three RBI in game two, while Knight went 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored. Dobson had her best game of the young season at plate, going 1-for-3 with a walk, two RBI, and two runs scored.
Tusculum used another big inning to do its damage in game one, plating eight runs in the bottom of the third to put the Huskies in a massive hole. Taylor Battle roped an RBI single that scored Brittney Franse, and Emily Hester followed with an RBI single of her own. Alexis Grampp woud give the Pioneers a 3-0 lead with a single through the left side, and Hester scored on a wild pitch shortly after. Grayson Brown continued the big inning with an RBI single that scored Grampp and Taylor Johnson, and a walk to Sammie West made it 7-0 in favor of Tusculum. The Pioneers would tack on one more run in the inning when Brittany Fletcher scored on a fielder's choice.
The Huskies answered with four runs of their own in the top of the fourth inning on a pair of RBI singles from Starr and
Kalynn Wheeland (South Williamsport, Pa./South Williamsport), and a single from Winkelman that plated two runs, and Impink would pull Bloomsburg to within three runs when she laced a double to left center that brought in Shelhamer.
The deficit would prove too large for Bloomsburg to overcome, however, as a solo homer from West in the bottom of the sixth dashed any hopes of a comeback for the Huskies.
Winkelman was 2-for-4 with two RBI in game one, while Shelhamer was 1-for-2 with a pair of walks and two runs scored.
Balee Leeser (Sunbury, Pa./Shikellamy) hurled 4.0 innings in relief for the Huskies and allowed just two earned runs on three hits. West went 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored for Tusculum in game one.
Bloomsburg falls to 1-7 on the season with the two losses, but will have a chance to bounce back quickly, as the Huskies travel to Salisbury, North Carolina, for a doubleheader at Catawba College Thursday. First pitch with the Indians is set for 1:00 p.m.
