BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – The Concord University softball team finished the regular season by winning two games at West Virginia Wesleyan, 5-2 and 6-4, Sunday afternoon at Culpepper Field.
The Mountain Lions tie their program wins record by finishing the regular season at 34-17 overall and 22-10 in the Mountain East Conference. WVWC ends the year at 20-24 and 13-17 in the MEC.
Game 1: Concord 5 – West Virginia Wesleyan 2
Concord pounded out 11 hits in game one to secure a win including four players with two hits in the contest.
Wesleyan struck first with a solo home run in the first inning, but sophomore catcher/utility
Kaitlyn Stewart responded with an RBI single in the second and smacked her second home run of the season in the fourth to push CU ahead.
Each team scored in the fifth as freshman pitcher/outfielder
Laura Thompson scored on a Bobcats' error after a one-out double. Holding onto a 3-2 lead in the top of the seventh, freshman utility
Sarah Thompson brought in a run on a one-out single before scoring on senior utility
Kylie Kent's base hit.
The runs were scored in support of sophomore pitcher/outfielder
Cartney Schoolcraft who improved to 16-5 after striking out 10 while scattering two runs on six hits.
Sophomore outfielder
Dani Bloomingdale, Kent, Stewart and junior utility
Jenna Witt each had two hits.
Game 2: Concord 6 – West Virginia Wesleyan 4
CU erased a 4-0 lead with five runs in the fifth inning to complete the comeback and sweep of WVWC.
Wesleyan scored once in the first and twice more in the second inning to open up a 3-0 lead before taking a 4-0 edge going to the fifth inning. Four of the first five batters of the Concord fifth reached with Bloomingdale scoring on L. Thompson's triple. Thompson scored later in the frame on a Wesleyan error to draw within 4-2. The final three runs came on a bases-clearing single by senior outfielder
Abby Beatty.
Witt added an insurance run in the sixth as she plated L. Thompson after she had drawn a one-out walk in the frame.
Kent, L. Thompson and Witt combine to go 6-for-9.
Schoolcraft entered the game in relief as she tossed the final 5.2 innings, scattering seven hits and one run. The Winfield, West Virginia native set the single-season school record in strikeouts in game one and now has 148 for the season after fanning six in game two.
Additionally, Beatty went over 100 career RBI as she now has 101 with her two RBI in game two.
Concord opens the MEC Tournament 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, West Virginia.
