Box Score vs. West Liberty

Box Score vs. Assumption

Clermont, Fla. — Following the same pattern it has nearly all week, the Millersville softball team won its first game of the day before falling in its second. The Marauders got an eight-run seventh inning to easily beat West Liberty, 14-4, but couldn't recover from an early 4-0 deficit in a 6-4 loss to Assumption at the National Training Center on Thursday.

Laura DeVoe paced the Marauders (4-6) in the opener. The freshman outfielder was 3-for-4 and knocked in three runs. West Liberty (2-7) did itself no favors by committing six errors and pitcher Amy Grubic (1-3) had four wild pitches.

One of those wild pitches scored Lindsay Hosier in the first inning to give MU a 1-0 lead. Casey Coker doubled the advantage in the top of the second when she tripled to the gap to score Amy Kossyk. DeVoe got her first RBI of the day in the fourth on a single that made the score 3-0.

Millersville would make it 6-0 in the sixth thanks to RBIs from Ally Homa and Sarah Signore. Anna Libby would then score on the third error of the game by Hiltoppers' third baseman Shelby Wilson. Wilson had a forgettable game, finishing with four fielding mishaps.

West Liberty made its rally in the bottom half of the sixth by scoring three runs of its own to cut the Millersville lead in half. Courtney Loe and Katie Saluga delivered back-to-back RBI hits for the Toppers. Whatever momentum WLU thought it had, the Black and Gold took back in the top of the seventh with their biggest inning of the season so far.

DeVoe and Kelly Fitzgerald both picked up a two-run double in the inning and Brittany Peterson pitched a scoreless seventh to secure the win. Signore (2-0) pitched five effective innings for the Marauders. The junior transfer struck out six and did not walk a batter. She now has 27 strikeouts against just three walks this season.

Coker, DeVoe, and Homa all registered three-hit games, while Fitzgerald and Hosier followed close behind with two hits apiece.

Assumption opened a four-run lead in game two after two and a half innings due in large part to Lauren Medeiros' two-run homer in the top of the third. The Greyhounds (3-6) would start to feel some pressure from MU in the bottom of the third.

Deanna Schneiderreit and Hosier both singled and Schneiderreit was knocked in by Homa as Millersville got on the board. Hosier would score via a wild pitch and Fitzgerald plated Homa as MU made it 4-3.

Throughout the Assumption lineup the bats continued to work. Mederios doubled in a run and teammate Marissa Palumbo had an RBI single, as the Greyhounds immediately responded with two more markers in the top of the fourth to open up a 6-3 lead.

Millersville would cut the final deficit to 6-4 on an RBI base knock by DeVoe in the sixth. DeVoe finished the day 5-for-7 with four RBIs. Alicia Hughes (1-3) had a tough outing, giving up six hits and four runs —three earned— in just three innings.

Rachel Hedge (1-2) earned her first win of the season by going five innings. Hedge did give up all four MU runs. Chelsea Durso pitched a perfect seventh for her second save of the season.

Millersville will wrap up play in the 2010 Spring Games at the National Training Center on Friday, weather permitting. The Marauders are slated to play Bentley at 11:30 a.m., and Grand Valley State at 3:30 p.m., before heading back to Pennsylvania on Saturday.