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Mercyhurst Recap
Sports Information
Department, Dan Teliski, Director
Phone: (814)
871-7418
Date: March
26, 2008
GANNON SOFTBALL SPLITS HOME
DOUBLEHEADER AGAINST MERCYHURST
SOLDNER TOSSES NO-HITTER IN OPENING CONTEST
ERIE, Pa.
- The Gannon softball team pounded out 12 runs on 19 hits in two games Wednesday
afternoon, but could only manage a split in a non-conference doubleheader
against rival Mercyhurst. The Lady Knights won the opener 7-0, but fell 6-5
in the nightcap.
In the opener, Gannon won easily behind Lauren Soldner’s (Sylvania, Ohio/Sylvania
Southview) no-hitter. The redshirt junior blanked the Lakers through
seven innings, striking out four and walking two. In the process, she improved
to 7-3.
Gannon scored the only run it would need in the first inning. Jaclyn Corroto
(Boardman, Ohio/Boardman) led off the game with a double over the rightfielder’s
head. Following a sacrifice bunt and walk, Corroto scored on a Kara Hensley’s
(Waterville, Ohio/Anthony Wayne) sacrifice fly to left.
Corroto extended the lead to 4-0 with a three-run homer in the second inning.
Casee Piquet (Newton Falls, Ohio/Newton Falls) then drove in two of
the final three runs with a lead-off home run in the fourth and an RBI double
in the fifth.
Corroto and Piquet accounted for the majority of Gannon’s offensive damage
in game one. Corroto was 3-for-4 with two runs and three RBI. Piquet was
3-for-3 with one run and two RBI. Carol Kienzl (Pittsburgh, Pa./Baldwin)
added two hits and an RBI in three at-bats.
In the nightcap, Mercyhurst rallied with two runs in the bottom of the sixth
inning to post a come-from-behind 6-5 victory. Trailing 3-0, Gannon rallied
first with two runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings.
Hannah Koenig’s (Erie, Pa./McDowell) two-run triple in the fourth
cut the deficit to 3-2. Kienzl later pushed Gannon in front 4-3 with a two-out,
two-run blast down the left field line.
The lead was short lived as Mercyhurst’s Amber Rapose tied the contest at
four with a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Gannon regained the lead in the top of the sixth inning. Koenig led off the
inning with a double into the right-center gap. Chastity Guerrero (Toledo,
Ohio/St. Ursula Academy) then followed with an RBI single, giving the
Lady Knights the lead back at 5-4.
The seesaw affair swung back into Mercyhurst’s favor in the bottom of the
inning. The Lakers started the inning with back-to-back bunt singles. After
a strikeout and a walk, Rapose and Michelle Schmitz recorded back-to-back
bloop singles to give Mercyhurst a 6-5 advantage. Gannon went down in order
during the top of the seventh inning.
Kadie Ondrus (Curtice, Ohio/Clay) dropped to 5-2, allowing six runs
(five earned) on 12 hits in 5 1/3 innings. The sophomore struck out six and
walked one. Kesley Brickman (Sylvania, Ohio/Notre Dame Academy) faced
two batters in relief, retiring both.
Kienzl led the offensive unit in game two with three hits in four at-bats.
She drove in two runs and scored twice. Koenig and Tiffany Joyce (Erie,
Pa./Mercyhurst Prep) added two hits each.
Gannon moved its record to 16-8 with Wednesday’s non-conference split. Mercyhurst
is now 11-9. The Lady Knights open Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
(GLIAC) play Saturday, March 29 at Ferris State. The doubleheader is scheduled
for 1 p.m.
A complete box score from game one of Wednesday’s Gannon-Mercyhurst softball
doubleheader can be found at http://www.gannon.edu/sports/women/softball/STATS.HTM/game23.htm.
A complete box score from game two can be found at http://www.gannon.edu/sports/women/softball/STATS.HTM/game24.htm.
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updated 3/26/08 by: drt
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