Belle Bortner
Gio Saglimbeni, athletics student worker
Belle Bortner
2
Widener WIDENER 8-9
3
Winner Hood HOOD 6-9
Widener WIDENER
8-9
2
Final
3
Hood HOOD
6-9
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Widener WIDENER 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 1
Hood HOOD 0 0 1 0 0 2 X 3 8 0

W: Bortner, Belle (3-4) L: J. Sieminski (3-3)

3
Winner Widener WIDENER 9-9
1
Hood HOOD 6-10
Winner
Widener WIDENER
9-9
3
Final
1
Hood HOOD
6-10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Widener WIDENER 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 11 0
Hood HOOD 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1

W: J. Sieminski (4-3) L: Long, Jordan (3-4)

Game Recap: Softball | | Geoff Goyne, assistant director of athletics

Bortner hits, pitches softball to split vs. Widener

FREDERICK, Md. - Hood College's Belle Bortner homered and pitched a complete game in the opener as the Blazers won 3-2 in the first game of a Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth doubleheader with Widener. The Pride captured the second game 3-1. 

Inside the Circle
  • Bortner scattered six hits and walk, allowing just two runs for her third win of the season. At the plate, she went 2-for-3 with a homer.
  • Jordan Long took the loss despite a solid pitching performance in game two. The first-year student pitched around 11 hits, allowing three runs. She did not walk a batter. 
At the Plate
  • Bortner went 3-for-6 at the plate with two RBIs. 
  • Lindsey Wilson finished 3-for-6 with a double. 
  • Mallorie Hetzel was 2-for-5 with a walk. 
Hood 3, Widener 2
  • Hood used a two-run sixth to erase a 2-1 deficit for the win. Hetzel and Caitlin Gosline led off the inning with back-to-back singles and a one-out walk to Colleen Blasko loaded the bases. Pinch hitter Delanie Henry drew a bases-loaded walk to drive in Hetzel for the winning run. A base hit by Cailyn Barthlow followed, knocking in Gosline for a 3-1 advantage. 
  • The Pride had taken a 2-0 lead in the first on a two-run single by Kelly Dodgson. Bortner found her groove after that, retiring 15 of the next 18 hitters she faced. 
  • She helped her own cause with a solo shot to left-center in the third to make it 2-1. 
  • After the two-run sixth, Widener threatened with two hits in the seventh before Bortner retired the side. 
Widener 3, Hood 1
  • Widener scored twice in the fifth to break a 1-1 tie to salvage the split. 
  • Both teams scored single runs in the first. For Widener, Dodgson knocked in a run with an RBI single for a 1-0 edge. Anna Schipske led off Hood's half of the first with a walk. Barthlow was hit by a pitch and a single by Angela Acampora with one-out loaded the bases. Bortner drove in a run with an RBI groundout, evening the score. 
  • The two teams' pitching staffs pitched around baserunners nearly every half-inning before the Pride scored the winning runs. Lindsey Cooper executed a squeeze play with runners on second and third to make it 2-1. Cooper was thrown out trying to steal second, but stayed in the rundown long enough for Carli Benozich to score an insurance run. 
  • Dodgson had four hits for Widener. 
  • Acampora went 2-for-4 for the Blazers. 
  • Jennifer Sieminski, who took the loss in relief in game one, came out of the bullpen for the win in the nightcap. 
Notes
  • Hood is 6-10 on the year, while the Pride are 9-9. Both teams are 5-7 in the MAC Commonwealth. 
Up Next 
The Blazers travel to York College of Pennsylvania on April 10 for a 1 p.m. doubleheader. 

 
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