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VIENNA, W. Va. – The Concord University softball team started West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play Friday afternoon by splitting a doubleheader at Ohio Valley. The Mountain Lions (12-12, 1-1 WVIAC) took the first game 6-4 before falling to the Figthing Scots, 3-2.
Sophomore
Hayley Wade led Concord on the day by going a combined 3-for-4 with three runs, four RBI and one home run.
Game One: Concord 6 - Ohio Valley 4
Concord overcame an early 1-0 deficit by scoring six straight runs in a three-inning stretch to pull away for the 6-4 victory.
Wade was 2-for-2 with a pair of RBI and one run scored. Senior
Becca Gleason, Concord's leadoff hitter, went 3-for-3 with a run scored while sophomore
Jessica Seymour joined became the third Mountain Lion player in the game to register multiple hits thanks to a 2-for-4 performance.
Sophomore
Whitney Carrigan and junior
Rachael Mack both drove in runs as well.
Sophomore
Lacey McDougall improved to 6-7 on the year after going 5.1 innings, giving up four runs and nine hits while striking out two batters.
Mack came on in relief of McDougall to strikeout two batters and hold the Fighting Scots scoreless in 1.2 innings to record her first save of the season.
Concord's offensive output came off of a two-run single by Wade in the second inning, an RBI-double from Carrigan in the third as well three runs in the fourth from a RBI-single from Mack and two runners scoring off of an Ohio Valley error.
Ohio Valley battled back by scoring three runs in the fifth and loading the bases with just one out in the sixth, but Mack would come into the circle and proceed to force consecutive outs to get CU out of the jam. Mack went on to throw a scoreless seventh inning to preserve the win.
Game Two: Concord 2 - Ohio Valley 3
Ohio Valley took a 3-0 lead into the sixth inning of game two before a Concord rally in the sixth inning cut the Fighting Scots' lead to just one run. However, Concord was unable to push the tying run across home plate as Ohio Valley escaped with the one-run win.
Concord managed just two hits in the nightcap off of Wade's first home run of the season and a single from senior
Stephanie Harper. Wade finished the game 1-for-2 with two-RBI.
Mack took the loss for Concord after giving up all three runs, only one of which was earned, on six hits with one walk and one strikeout.
After Harper's single in the first inning, Concord was held hitless until the sixth inning when Wade went deep on a 0-2 count to make it a 3-2 game, freshman
Kristi Benvenuto had led off the inning with a walk.
Gleason followed up Wade's home run with a walk and represented the tying run, but would end the inning stranded at second base. CU went down in order in the seventh inning to give Ohio Valley the win.
Concord continues WVIAC play 1:00 p.m. Saturday at Glenville State.
