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Box Score 2 GREENVILLE, Pa. – The Westminster College softball team swept the Thiel College Tomcats on Friday to remain undefeated on the season. The Titans won, 9-6, in game one and claimed game two by a score of 10-0 in five innings.
In game one, Westminster (4-0) got on the board in the top of the first inning when sophomore
Mackenzie Latess (New Castle, PA / Laurel) delivered an RBI single to put the Titans up 1-0. After three scoreless innings, the Titans exploded with a six-run fourth inning, capped off by another RBI single by Latess to give Westminster a commanding 7-0 lead. Thiel (0-4) did not go away, as a three-run fifth inning by the Tomcats cut the deficit to 7-3. Thiel tacked on three more runs in the sixth inning to cut the Westminster lead to just one (7-6). In the top of the seventh, the Titans got two crucial insurance runs, courtesy of a two-RBI triple by sophomore
Alexis Yates (Oakdale, PA / South Fayette) to make the score 9-6, before the Titans held the Tomcats scoreless in the bottom frame to end the game.
In game two, the Titans and Tomcats remained scoreless through three innings, before Westminster, again, did serious damage with a six-run fourth inning to take a 6-0 lead. The Titans continued to pour on the offense in the fifth inning, plating four runs to take a firm 10-0 lead and induced the mercy rule after shutting the Tomcats down in the bottom half.
Latess led the way in game one with a team-high three hits and a pair of RBIs. Yates tacked on two hits, tied a game-high with two runs scored and totaled a game-high four RBIs. Senior
Haley Bedalota (Aliquippa, PA / Hopewell) and sophomore
Leah Pancake (North Lima, OH / Beaver Local) each added a pair of hits. Sophomore
Madison Brown (Lisbon, OH / East Liverpool) got the win in the circle after tossing 5.2 scoreless innings, scattering six hits and striking out seven.
Five Titans had multi-hit games in game two (each tying a game-high), led by Pancake with two hits, two runs scored and two RBIs. Sophomore
Ashley Wire (Poland, OH / Poland Seminary) followed with two base knocks and a pair of runs scored. Bedalota, Yates and senior
Victoria Pezzuolo (New Castle, PA / Mohawk) each added two hits, while Yates crossed the plate two times. First-year
Elizabeth Malczak (Grove City, PA / Grove City) tossed a one-hit shutout over five innings of work and struck out a career-high nine batters.
Westminster will be back in action tomorrow when it returns home to take on the Saint Vincent College Bearcats in the first contest at the brand-new Titan Softball Field for a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.
