SALEM, Va. – The Concord University softball team went 1-2 at the Salem Tournament at the Moyer Sports Complex Saturday afternoon.
CU fell to Shippensburg, 5-1, and East Stroudsburg, 9-2, before defeating Edinboro 4-2 in the final game.
Game 1: Shippensburg 5 – Concord 1
The Raiders scored all five runs in the first three innings to take command of the game.
Shippensburg got a two-out double in the first inning to score two runs and gain an early 2-0 lead. In the third inning, SU plated a run on a CU error before another two-run double opened up the gap to 5-0.
CU's run came in the sixth after sophomore second baseman / shortstop
Jenna Witt led off the inning with her own double and came in to score on junior pitcher / first baseman
Rachel Pritchard's RBI single.
Pritchard and Witt combined for four of the seven CU hits with each player notching two hitters.
Sophomore pitcher / outfielder
Darby Fitzpatrick (1-3) was tagged with the loss. Pritchard allowed just three hits in four innings of relief.
Game 2: East Stroudsburg 9 – Concord 2
ESU scored five runs in its final two at-bats to untie a 2-2 game in the fifth.
The Warriors grabbed an early 2-0 lead with two scores in the first inning. The same lead held up until Witt blasted her third home run of the season in the top of the fifth inning knot the game at 2-2. The home run also scored Fitzpatrick after she singled earlier in the inning.
East Stroudsburg quickly came back with two runs in the bottom of the frame and added three more runs in the sixth to extend its lead to 9-2.
Junior first baseman
Lauren Blunt, Fitzpatrick and Witt each had two hits for Concord.
Pritchard (1-3) was charged with the loss in the circle.
Game 3: Concord 4 – Edinboro 2
CU held off a late Edinboro rally in the seventh to secure a win in the final game of the day.
Concord scored twice in the second inning to get on the board.
With runners on first and third and two outs, freshman catcher / third baseman plated freshman outfielderÂ
Dani Bloomingdale with a single through the left side. Two batters later, junior infielder
Kylie Kent drew a bases loaded walk to score freshman catcher / outfielder
Kayle Starnes.
The Mountain Lions added an insurance run in each of the fourth and seventh innings as Fitzpatrick helped her own cause with an RBI single in the fourth. In the seventh, Kent came in to score on an RBI groundout.
However, the Fighting Scots were not going away quietly in the bottom of the seventh.
After two RBI doubles in a three-batter span that got EU to within 4-2, Fitzpatrick struck the final two batters of game with the game-tying run on base to lock up a win for Concord.
Fitzpatrick improved to 2-3 with the win. The Pocomoke City, Maryland native allowed six hits and two unearned runs while her only two strikeouts were the ones to end the end the game.
Pritchard paced the CU offense with two hits.Â
CU plays Winston-Salem State 10:00 a.m. Sunday
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