CLERMONT, Fla. - The Hood College softball team dropped its opener to Bates before picking up its first win of the season over Pitt-Greensburg during the Blazers' spring break trip to Florida.
At the Plate
Inside the Circle
- Kiley Banks and Belle Bortner each threw complete games.
- Banks allowed six runs, four earned, in game one on nine hits. She did not walk a batter and struck out one.
- Bortner picked up her first career victory in the second game. She allowed just two runs, one earned, while scattering seven hits. The newcomer struck out two and walked one.
Bates 6, Hood 0
- A five-run second inning proved too much to overcome for the Blazers. Emily Samar started the scoring with a two-run single.
- Base hits by Wilson and Brandi Davidson put runners on the corners with one out in the third but Bates' Kirsten Pelletier picked up a pair of strikeouts to escape the jam.
- After the second inning, Banks settled in and retired 16 of the final 20 batters she faced. A single run in the seventh was the only further damage for the Bobcats.
- Wilson and Davidson had the only two hits for Hood.
- Pelletier struck out six in three innings for Bates. Danielle Polirer picked up the win with four scoreless innings of relief.
- Caroline Bass, Eliza McNulty and Janell Sato had two hits each for Bates.
Hood 4, Pitt-Greensburg 2
- A two-run single by Barthlow in the seventh helped the Blazers hold on for their first win of the season.
- Hood scored twice in the first on two errors by the Bobcats. Jules Baker led off the game with a walk and back-to-back miscues later in the inning allowed she and Angie Acampora to score.
- Bortner retired seven straight batters at one point before an error let Hannah Corvin on base to lead off the fifth. Madison Hollis followed with an RBI single to cut Hood's lead in half. Greensburg would twice get runners on second and third in the inning but Bortner pitched her way out trouble and protected the lead.
- In the seventh, Caitlin Gosline and Mackenzie Grove had back-to-back singles. With one out, Barthlow drove in both with a two-run single for a 4-1 lead.
- The tying run got to the plate in the bottom of the inning but Bortner forced a ground ball to Barthlow at shortstop to close the game.
- The Blazers were efficient, scoring four times on four hits and walk, taking advantage of four errors.
- Drew Diodato took the complete game loss. Hollis had three hits for Greensburg.
Notes
- Hood is 1-5 on the season.
Up Next
The Blazers continue their spring break trip with games against Rhodes and Meredith on March 10.
