WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Sophomore
Ashley Forrest (Red Hill, Pa./Upper Perkiomen) went 2-for-3 with her first career home run to lead the Lycoming College softball team to a 4-1 win over regionally-ranked Lebanon Valley College in the first game of Monday afternoon, April 21's doubleheader at the Shangraw Athletic Complex. Lebanon Valley scored three runs in the seventh in a 3-0 nightcap win.
In the first game, senior
Avery Eiswerth (Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport Area) (6-6) was brilliant against the third-ranked team in Region IV, tossing a six-hitter and working around five walks to strand eight runners in the game. She struck out three in the complete game, allowing only a seventh-inning run with two outs.
Senior catcher
Rachel Daub (Honesdale, Pa./Honesdale Area) also helped the cause, throwing out two base runners in the contest and junior
Claire Alexander (South Williamsport, Pa./South Williamsport) caught a fifth-inning liner to start an inning-ending double play.
The Warriors (12-13 overall) got on the board in the third inning with their first run of the game, a solo homer to center field. In the fourth, Daub led off with a single before junior
Hailee Sobieski (Wharton, N.J./Morris Catholic) was hit by a pitch. After a sac bunt from Eiswerth, first-year
Jocelyn McCracken (Jersey Shore, Pa./Jersey Shore Area) delivered a RBI single through the right side and Sobieski scored on an error. In the fifth, Alexander tripled for her 99
th career hit before scoring on a fielder's choice to make it 4-0.
Lebanon Valley got the tying run to the plate in the seventh, but Eiswerth forced a fly out to end the game.
Holly Grube (9-5) pitched four innings for the Flying Dutchmen (21-11 overall) allowing four hits and two earned runs. She struck out one.
In the second game, Lebanon Valley notched four hits in the last inning, spoiling six innings of three-hit shutout pitching from sophomore
Kendall McAnelly (Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport Area) (3-6).
McAnelly allowed just five hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings, walking three and striking out one.
Maycee White (4-1) tossed a four-hit shutout, striking out one for the Dutchmen.
McCracken led the Warriors, going 2-for-2. Nicole Kratz led the Dutchmen, going 2-for-4 with two doubles.
The Warriors pick up a halted game with Juniata College on Wednesday, April 23 at 3 p.m. before finishing the Landmark Conference doubleheader with a full game. The game will resume with the teams tied at 5 in the top of the fifth inning with one out and a Juniata runner on third base.
