GLENSIDE, Pa.--The Hood College softball team (12-5, 3-2 Commonwealth) emerged victorious after a 13-inning marathon with the Arcadia University Knights (5-10, 2-3 Commonwealth) by a final of 11-10 Friday afternoon in a Commonwealth Conference contest.

In the longest game in Hood softball history that took 3:45 to complete, starting pitcher Keerstie Robinson worked all 13 innings of the contest and threw more than 200 pitches en route to her seventh win of the season. The Blazers touched up four Knight pitchers for 22 base hits, one shy of matching the single-game school record, in a wild affair that featured five lead changes and four ties.

Alexa Sivic and Casey Dunn both had four hits in the game while Jackie Yurchak was 3-for-6 with a home run and three runs scored. Ashley Fourcade also set a new school record by hitting safely in her 17th straight game.

Arcadia held a 7-6 lead heading to the top of the seventh, but the Blazers scratched across a run with two outs when Sivic drove an RBI-scoring single up the middle which plated Amy Hagerdon. The Knights had the winning run 60 feet away with two outs in the bottom of the seventh but Robinson got Corrin Showalter to ground out to Sivic at first to force extra innings.

Neither team was able to push across a run in the eighth, ninth or tenth frames. In the top of the 11th, Katie Jenkins started on second base following the international tiebreaker rule. Dunn laced a double to the gap in left-center and Jenkins crossed the plate with the go-ahead run. In the bottom half, Robinson retired the first two hitters on a strikeout and a groundout. But Jessica Wood stepped in and hit a deep fly ball to the fence in right-center, just out of the reach of rightfielder Hagerdon, and Alexandra Schafer came around to score the tying run. The Blazers worked out of the inning however and the two teams went to the 12th tied at 8-8.

Fourcade was the runner at second to start the 12th and took third on a wild pitch and came in to score on a sharp single to left by Kali Ball. The Blazers nearly registered a second run, but Ball was thrown out at the plate following a base hit to center by Yurchak.

The Knights drew even once again in the bottom half. The base runner Ashley John took third on a wild pitch and the next batter Natalie O'Reilly hit a ground ball to the right side which was snagged by Dunn and Yurchak made a nice scoop at first to get the out. However, during the play, John scampered home to score the tying run to make it 9-9. Arcadia stranded runners at first and third after Brandee Zablotsky grounded out.

In the top of the 13th, Hood took advantage of an overthrow by Arcadia's fourth pitcher of the game, John, on a beautiful sacrifice bunt by Dunn which allowed two runs to score; Dunn ended up at third on the play. Needing two to tie and three to win as dusk was setting in, the Knights got one back on a single by Wood. Marissa Perez then hit a line drive up the middle which was snagged in the air by a diving Ball for the second out. The Knights would have runners at the corners after John reached on a grounder to short which short-hopped Yurchak at first, but Hagerdon alertly sprinted in from rightfield to back up the errant throw, which saved the tying run at third from scoring. The next batter Showalter stepped in and popped up the first pitch she saw into foul territory, which was squeezed by the catcher Sivic to clinch the hard-fought triumph for the Blazers.

The second game of the doubleheader was postponed due to impending darkness; a makeup date was not immediately announced.

Hood returns to action Thursday hosting Notre Dame (Md.) University at 3 p.m. in a nonconference twinbill.