CUP Softball and Baseball Split Doubleheaders

Chris Rossetti

Chris Rossetti

Published March 30, 2017 4:17 am
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TIFFIN, Ohio – The Clarion softball team earned its second road split in its last three doubleheaders, falling 3-0 at Tiffin in the early game on Wednesday before shutting out the Dragons 2-0 in the nightcap.

(Photo courtesy of Clarion University Athletics)

The Golden Eagles (3-21) is scheduled to play their conference opener on Friday against Bloomsburg.

Aryn Boyer scored the go-ahead run for the Golden Eagles in the nightcap, helping them in an extra innings victory on the road. Placed on second to start the inning, Boyer scored on an error by the third baseman on a hard-hit ground ball by Taylor Nonnenberg. Nonnenberg later came around to score on another error, giving the Golden Eagles a 2-0 advantage entering the bottom of the eighth inning. Rachel Hoffman retired all three batters she faced in the home half of the inning, inducing flyouts from the final two batters to pick up her third win of the year.

Hoffman was dominant in the circle in the late game, throwing eight shutout innings and allowing just three hits and two walks. The only time Tiffin threatened was in the fourth inning Libby Crow reached base and stole both second and third with two outs. Hoffman induced a flyout to end the inning. Crow reached third base with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning, but again Hoffman escaped the jam with a flyout.

In the early game, Tiffin scored the only runs of the game they needed in the second inning and tacked on an insurance run in the sixth. The only Clarion threat came when Audrey Hummell came in to pinch-run for Casey Wilcox in the fifth inning, and Natalie Else singled her over to second base. Boyer flew out and Cassidy Runyan fanned to end the threat. Macy Rubin suffered the loss.

BASEBALL SPLITS WITH LOCK HAVEN

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — The Clarion University baseball team split a pair of decisions with the Lock Haven Eagles Wednesday afternoon, dropping game one by a score of 7-5 and winning game two 4-2. The win and loss moves the Golden Eagles to 4-11 on the season (0-4 PSAC). The Blue and Gold return to action Friday when they head to California, Pa. for a double-header with the Vulcans.

Game one started out with a bang, as both squads traded off four-run first innings. CU drew first blood when Garrett Goslaw managed to draw a bases-loaded walk to put a run across the plate for the Golden Eagles. John Finke grounded to short but managed to drive in another run one at-bat later to go up 2-0, and by the third out of the game, Clarion enjoyed a 4-0 cushion.

Lock Haven battled back hard, scoring four runs off of three hits in the bottom of the second to even things up. They would tack on three more in the fourth to make it 7-5, and while Clarion would continue to battle, LHU held on for the win.

The Golden Eagles would keep those bats rolling right into game two, and coupled with some heads-up base-running managed to snag an early lead once again.
Finke again managed to reach on an error which scored Mitch Holmberg from second before Matt Kamenicky crushed an RBI single to left field to increase the lead to 2-0.

Clarion used a slew of pitchers on the day, however, the unit got the job done, allowing just five hits on the afternoon. Clarion added a pair of runs in the fourth for good measure and shut it down the rest of the game to cruise to a 4-2 victory.

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