Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – The Susquehanna softball team split its Landmark Conference doubleheader against Drew, winning the opening game 6-1 before falling 4-3 in the seventh inning of the second contest.
SU (19-11, 7-2) had 15 hits on the day, with eight in the first game during which the Crusader pitchers limited Drew (13-17, 4-7) to just three hits and one run. In that game one victory, Alyssa Cantalini (Kitchener, Ontario/St. David Catholic Secondary) collected two hits, including a homer, and drove in four runs. Teammate Madison Clark (Blue Springs, Mo./Blue Springs) also had a two-hit day and drove in a run.
Alison Cullen (Branchburg, N.J./Immaculata) tossed five innings of one-run, two-hit ball and walked only one batter in the opening contest. Morgan Lewis (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) gave up just one hit in her two full innings of relief.
Susquehanna struck early with a first-inning run courtesy of a Drew error. The Rangers tied it at one in the top half of the second inning and it stood 1-1 until the Crusaders pushed three runs across in the fourth, with Cantalini driving in two of those with a two-out triple.
SU tacked on two more runs in the sixth thanks to Cantalini's two-run shot that made it 6-1. Lewis retired the side in order to end the game.
Game two was a pitcher's duel although SU did manage seven hits with three from Kathryn Gilbert (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley). Sarah Hoffman (Laceyville, Pa./Wyalusing Valley) went six innings and surrendered only one run and Lewis pitched the final inning and gave up the game-winning runs to the Rangers.
The Crusaders went up 1-0 in the second on a Courtney Miller (Kendall Park, N.J./South Brunswick) RBI single and added another solo run in the fifth on Gilbert's single that plated Brianna Murphy (Hazlet, N.J./Mater Dei).
It remained 2-0 until the top of the next inning the sixth when Drew scored the tying run off Hoffman in her final inning of work for a 2-1 ballgame.
The Rangers were then able to tag Lewis for three runs on three hits and a SU error in the top of the seventh to put Susquehanna in a 4-2 hole. While the Crusaders were able to put a run on the board in the bottom of the seventh to pull within one at 4-3, the game ended on a routine groundout.
Susquehanna is on the road tomorrow for a doubleheader at Lycoming at 1 p.m.
