ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University softball team outscored Glenville State 13-1 in a doubleheader Wednesday afternoon in Mountain East Conference play at the CU Softball Field, winning 5-1 and 8-0.
Game 1: Concord 5 – Glenville State 1
The Mountain Lions (15-19, 15-13 MEC) scored five runs across the fourth and fifth innings coupled with a stellar pitching performance from junior pitcher/outfielder
Laura Thompson leading to a game one win.
GSC (8-29, 7-21 MEC) got three hits off Thompson in the third inning, but an out on the bases kept the Pioneers from scoring in the frame.
Three of the first four batters in the bottom of the fourth reached for CU to ignite a rally. Senior utility
Jenna Witt who led off the frame with a single raced home on a base hit by sophomore catcher/outfielder
Jolie Privett to get CU on the board. Two batters later—with runners on second and third—senior catcher/utility
Kaitlyn Stewart brought in two more runs with a hit into right field.
Up 3-0, Concord tacked on two more runs as senior catcher/third baseman
Lauren Richardson doubled off the top of the left field fence to plate junior third basemen/outfielder
Sarah Thompson and Witt who had singled back-to-back to start the inning.
Glenville State used two CU errors in the sixth to score a run, but a double play ended the rally and kept the Concord lead at 5-1.
The Pioneers were able to bring the tying run to the plate with two outs in the seventh, but a fly out to left field ended the game.
The Mountain Lions pounded out 11 hits in the first game with senior outfielder/pitcher
Darby Fitzpatrick, Stewart and Witt all going 2-for-3. Stewart added two RBI.
Thompson (7-8) tossed her third straight complete game as she scattered seven hits and one unearned run while striking out five.
Game 2: Concord 8 – Glenville State 0 (Five Innings)
Concord needed just five innings to dispatch of the Pioneers in game two to pick up a doubleheader sweep.
A leadoff double from L. Thompson and proceeding single from S. Thompson got CU on the board right away in the nightcap.
The Thompson sisters were right in the middle of a second-inning rally as L. Thompson's opposite field single to left brought in two runs in the second while S. Thompson recorded her second RBI of the contest with her infield single plating senior pitcher/outfielder
Cartney Schoolcraft. L. Thompson also scored in the frame on a double steal attempt.
Staked out to an early 5-0 lead, Schoolcraft became the program's all-time strikeout leader with a first-inning strikeout. The Winfield, West Virginia native now has 274 career strikeouts as she passed Ashley Jackson (2003-06, 271).
Schoolcraft (5-8) allowed just four hits as she tossed her second complete-game shutout of the season while striking out three. She also got some solid defense behind her as CU turned a double play on a line drive into centerfield in the fifth, and a throw from right field from Privett cut down a runner at second base earlier in the game.
Back-to-back doubles from Privett and Stewart got a sixth run across to start the fifth before junior first baseman
Tiara Peters ended the game two batters later with a line drive base hit into right field.
L. Thompson paced the CU offense which had 13 hits in the nightcap with three knocks and two RBI from the leadoff spot. S. Thompson added two hits and two more RBI. Fitzpatrick, Privett and Schoolcraft all had two hits.
The Mountain Lions host West Virginia Wesleyan 2:00 p.m. Friday.
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