Penn State Behrend Softball Hammers Medaille for Two AMCC Wins
The
Penn State Behrend softball team smacked the Medaille Mavericks at the
Behrend Softball Field picking up two wins on Wednesday, March 25 in an AMCC
doubleheader.
The blue and white struck early in game one, as Allison Babish
(Coraopolis/Montour)
and Ashley Gruber (Burton, OH/Berkshire)
both singled before Nikki
Kaschauer
(South Park/South Park)
blasted a ball over the
left field fence for a 3-0 lead. In the top of the third Kaschauer singled
before Amy Greene (Erie/Strong Vincent)
stepped to the plate and
homered, again over the left field fence, to make it a 5-0 game in favor of
the Behrend Lions.
Medaille (6-6, 0-2) got on the board and then loaded the bases with two outs
in the bottom of the third, but Julie Koman
(McKees Rocks/Montour) got
Medaille’s batter to pop out to second base to end the threat, as Behrend
would take a 7-1 lead into the fourth inning.
In the fifth Behrend got runners to second and third with two outs when
Brittany Rockey (Bellefonte/Bellefonte)
doubled to centerfield
driving in both runners and putting Behrend ahead 9-1. The blue and white
would tack on four more runs in the inning to take a 13-1 lead that would
end up as the final score after five innings.
Koman got the win pitching a complete game and striking out three.
Behrend started the second game of the doubleheader by pushing three runs
across the plate in the top of the first inning. Starting pitcher Emma Hahn
(Smethport/Smethport)
struck out the side in
the bottom of the first and Behrend took a 3-0 lead into the second inning.
The blue and white got two more runs across the plate in the top of the
second inning building a 5-0 lead off of five hits. The
Behrend Lions had a 7-0
lead in the top of the fourth before Greene homered for the second time on
the day, crushing the ball over the left field fence to make it 9-0. Rockey
doubled in two more runs for an 11-0 lead and Behrend went on to earn a 12-0
win in five innings.
Hahn overpowered the Medaille hitters, pitching a complete game no-hitter.
The freshman struck out ten of the 19 batters she faced.
The Behrend Lions (8-4, 2-0) travel to Mount Aloysius on Saturday, March 28
for an AMCC doubleheader, and host conference foe Frostburg State the next
day at the Behrend softball field. That doubleheader is scheduled for
1:00 p.m.