SOFTBALL FALLS SUNDAY TO HOST UMES | https://goholycross.com/
SOFTBALL FALLS SUNDAY TO HOST UMES | https://goholycross.com/
The Holy Cross softball team fell to Maryland-Eastern Shore, 8-7, in the final contest between these programs Sunday afternoon.
The walk-off loss sends the Crusaders to 5-12 while the Hawks improve to 4-10.
STARTING IN THE CIRCLE:
- Katelyn Smitchko: 3.2 innings pitched, one earned run, one walk, two hits allowed.
- Junior Megan Yurchick: 4.0 innings pitched, four earned runs, zero walk, six hits allowed.
- Ameenah Ballenger: (W, 2-5) 3.1 innings pitched, one earned run, one walk, three hits allowed.
- Freshman Sophia Roncone: 2.0 innings pitched, three earned runs, zero walk, two hits allowed.
- Senior Audrey Gusel: (L, 0-1), one earned run, zero walks, two hits allowed.
- Ah-Nayia Oglesby: 2-for-3, run scored, two RBI.
- Kelsie Ekstrom: 1-for-4, three RBI.
- Yurchick: 1-for-3, double, two runs scored, one walk, two RBI.
- Roncone: 0-for-2, two RBI.
- Senior Bailey Bates: 1-for-3, one RBI, one walk.
- Junior Jessica Mott: 1-for-4, double, one RBI, one walk.
- UMES set a 3-0 early lead following the first inning.
- In the third, Yurchick started the scoring for the Crusaders, sending two home on a double. Holy Cross held a 4-3 lead heading into the fifth.
- Yurchick and Sniegocki added two runs, following a Hawk error to close out the top half of the seventh.
- The Hawks took the win from a three-RBI double from Ekstrom.
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