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Mackenzie Latess
Jason Kapusta
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Winner Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS 0-0
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Wash. & Jeff. WASH. & 0-0
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Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS 3 0 2 2 0 2 0 9 12 2
Wash. & Jeff. WASH. & 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 4 10 2

W: Brown, Madison (5-3) L: S. Petrowski (0-4)

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Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS 0-0
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Winner Wash. & Jeff. WASH. & 0-0
Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS
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Final
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Wash. & Jeff. WASH. &
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 7 10 0
Wash. & Jeff. WASH. & 0 2 0 0 2 4 X 8 14 2

W: K. Witner (3-3) L: Malczak, Liz (5-3)

Game Recap: Softball |

Westminster splits at W&J

WASHINGTON, Pa.--The Westminster College softball team worked a Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) split against rival Washington & Jefferson College at Brooks Park Wednesday afternoon. Westminster earned a 9-4 victory in game one before W&J stymied its game two comeback with an 8-7 win.

Westminster is now 10-6 overall and 3-1 in the PAC. W&J is 4-8 overall and 1-1 in league play. 

Thursday, Westminster hosts Allegheny College. The first pitch of the conference doubleheader is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.

Game 1: Westminster 9, W&J 4
The Titans charged out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on a two-run double by fifth-year first base Mackenzie Latess (New Castle, Pa., Laurel), which was followed by an RBI single by graduate student starter Madison Brown (Lisbon, Ohio, East Liverpool). Later, Latess homered with an out in the third and freshman shortstop Ava Karpa (Coraopolis, Pa., Moon) singled in junior designated player Mia Meholick (Dubois, Pa., Dubois Central Catholic) after her double to left to push the lead to 5-1. W&J pulled to within two in the bottom of the third on a Hannah Allen solo home run and Kyra Blauth's RBI single, but Latess' two-out, bases-load walk, followed by Brown's RBI groundout, stretched Westmister's lead to 7-3. Latess added another run in the sixth, following up second baseman Liz Malczak's (Grove City, Pa., Grove City) leadoff triple with a sacrifice fly, before Karpa's one-out, RBI double scored freshman pinch runner Ashley DeCarbo (New Castle, Pa., Shenango) to extend the Titans' lead to 9-3. W&J added a run in the bottom of the seventh on Deanna Gratton's sacrifice fly. 

Brown improved to 5-3 this season with the complete game victory. She allowed four runs on 10 hits with a walk and a strikeout. Westminster piled up 12 hits in the win. Latess finished 2-for-2 with a walk, a home run, a double, four RBIs and a pair of runs scored. Browen went 2-for-4 with two RBIs while Karpa was 2-for-3 with a walk, a double and two RBIs. Meholick went 2-for-3 with a walk, a double and run scored while sophomore third base Ellie Hsieh (York, Pa., Central York) had two hits, a walk and a run scored.

Blauth finished 2-for-3 with a walk, an RBI and and a run scored. Sydney Petrowski fell to 0-4 in the circle, allowing nine runs (7 earned) on 11 hits with six walks and a strikeout in 5.1 innings. 

Game 2: W&J 8, Westminster 7
Izzy DiPietro-Harvey delivered a two-run single in the second inning to stake homestanding W&J to a 2-0 lead. Malczak, Westminster's game two starter, ripped a two-run single of her own in the fifth to tie things up at 2-2. Freshman left fielder Leah Taliani (Arnold, Pa., Valley) smoked a one-out single before freshman center fielder Faith Jones (Volant, Pa., Wilmington) drew a walk. Brown, the designated player in game two, had a two-out RBI groundout that scored Hsieh and gave the visitors a 3-2 lead. The Presidents tied the game at 3-3 in bottom of the fifth on Allen's RBI fielder's choice before Kaylee Witner's run-scoring single gave W&J a 4-3 advantage. Mirranda Rinehart led off the bottom of the sixth with a triple and scored one batter later on Aliya Schraeder's base hit. A two-run double by Blauth extended the Presidents' lead to 7-3 while Witner followed with an RBI single to stretch the lead to 8-3. 

Down five after six full innings, Latess smashed a one-out, three-run home run to left field that cut W&J's lead to 8-6. Brown followed with a double to left center before Karpa's RBI double scored sophomore pinch runner Kelly Troup (Mogadore, Ohio, Field) to cut the lead to one, 8-7, and chase starter Witner. 

W&J outhit Westminster 14-10 in the nightcap. Both teams had three extra-base hits.

Malczak's record slipped to 5-3 in the circle after allowing eight runs on 14 hits with a walk and a strikeout in 5.2 innings of work. She finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored at the plate. Latess went 2-for-3 with a walk, a home run, three RBIs and a run scored. It was Latess' fourth home run of the season and the 24th of her career. Taliani had her first two-hit game of her collegiate career, finishing 2-for-3 with a run scored.

Witner improved to 1-1 with the win. She allowed seven runs (6 earned) on 10 hits with two walks in 6.2 innings. Six different players had multi-hit games for the Presidents. Blauth went 2-for-3 with a walk, a double, two RBIs and a run scored. Rinehart was 2-for-4 with a triple and two runs scored while DiPietro-Harvey finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored. Witner went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Schraeder was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Savannah Keough finished 2-for-4 with a run scored. 
 
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