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Box Score 2 SALEM, Va. – A five-run fourth inning propelled the Concord University softball team to a win against Glenville State, 8-7, before they dropped a 10-6 decision to West Virginia Wesleyan in the nightcap on the first day of the Mountain East Conference Tournament at the Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, Virginia Thursday.
CU will now play 12:00 p.m. Thursday against Shepherd University in an elimination game. Earlier this season the Mountain Lions swept Shepherd in a doubleheader in Athens, W.Va.
Concord's record is now 30-22 this season. Glenville State fell to 17-26 while West Virginia Wesleyan moves to 39-10.
On the day, sophomore designated player Morris was 4-for-7 with a run scored and an RBI. Meanwhile, freshman outfielder
Lauren Lewis was 3-for-7 and recording two runs and two RBI. With hits in both games Lewis and Morris extended their hitting streaks to 20 and 12 games, respectively.
In game one Concord's offense was led by Morris, who was 3-for-4 while scoring once and collecting an RBI. The three-hit outing was Morris' second of the season and her 11
th straight game with at least one hit. Lewis produced a two-hit, one-run, two-RBI performance while junior first baseman
Brantlea Wood tallied a 2-for-4 game with two RBI. Freshman third baseman
Courtney Purtell rounded out the attack after going 2-for-4 with a one run.
The Mountain Lions opened the game vs. GSC by scoring two runs in the first inning when Lewis doubled to center field scoring Morris and sophomore second baseman
Kristen Rose. CU maintained the two-run advantage until the top of the third when Glenville State struck for three runs to take a 3-2 advantage.
However, Rose tied the ballgame in the bottom of the third inning with a leadoff home run, her seventh of the season.
After the Pioneers scored one run in the top of the fourth inning to regain the lead Concord erupted for five runs in the bottom of the frame to hold an 8-4 edge. Freshman catcher
Carly DiVirgilio and Wood each drove in two runs in the inning while junior outfielder
Jessica Seymour, who started the rally by reaching on an error, scored off of a Morris RBI-double.
Glenville State battled back to score a single run in the sixth and got within a run of tying the game after a two-run home run by Kayleigh Huck in the seventh, but sophomore pitcher
Allie Reid, who came on in relief in the fifth inning, induced a groundout to Rose to end the game and secure the victory.
Freshman pitcher
Sarah Herndon tossed four innings, giving up five hits, four runs, one earned and striking out two to improve to 6-9 this season while Reid earned her third save of the season by pitching the final three innings. Reid allowed three runs on four hits and fanned three batters.
A five-run first inning for West Virginia Wesleyan was too much for CU to overcome in the nightcap as they fell 10-6.
Rose powered the Mountain Lions offense with a multi-hit going 2-for-4 with two runs. Reid was 1-for-2 and two RBI, her sixth multi-RBI game of the season.
The Bobcats held onto the 5-0 advantage until the fourth inning when Concord recorded back-to-back RBI doubles from Purtell and Wood cut into the deficit. However, WVWC quickly countered with two runs of its own in the bottom of the inning to hold a 7-2 lead.
West Virginia Wesleyan stretched its lead to 10-3 after six innings. The Mountain Lions began a comeback attempt in the top of the seventh. Herndon crossed the plate on an WVWC error that was proceeded by a sacrifice fly that plated Morris. DiVirgilio's run-scoring single brought home Rose, but CU's comeback bid fell shy as they lost 10-6.
In the nightcap, Wood (1-2) was the pitcher of record tallying two outs. Wood surrendered three hits and five runs, all of which were unearned.
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