YORK, Pa. - The Hood College softball team fell 5-2 and 4-0 at York (Pa.) in a Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth doubleheader.
Inside the Circle
- Rebecca Gottleib (Linthicum, Md./North County) took a complete game loss in the opener. The sophomore allowed two earned runs on eight hits and two walks, striking out four. She also knocked in a run at the plate.
- Rachel Benden (Gaithersburg, Md./Damascus) and Lindsay Wilson (Pasadena, Md./Annapolis Area Christian School) each allowed three runs in three innings in game two. Benden took the loss.
At the Plate
- Jocelyn Pfleiger (Quakertown, Pa./Dock Mennonite Academy) had two hits in the opener, including a double, and drove in one.
York 5, Hood 2
- The Blazers broke a scoreless deadlock with a two-run third inning. Colleen Blasko (Bowie, Md./St. Vincent Pallotti) and Chloe Saunders (Middletown, Md./Middletown) had back-to-back, one-out singles. Pfleiger followed with a shot into the gap in right center to score Blasko for the game's first run. Gottleib drove in Saunders with a sacrifice fly for a 2-0 lead.
- Morgan Sauers led off the bottom of the inning with a triple and came home on a base hit by Alyssa Harhigh to cut Hood's lead in half.
- York took the lead in the bottom of the fifth, thanks in part to a Blazer error. Daphne Adams tied the game with a sacrifice fly that scored Taylor Coon and Katie Fritz made it 3-2 when she drove in Harhigh with a single to right.
- In the sixth, Coon doubled and scored on a hit by Sauers and another error by Hood allowed Sauers to cross home plate later in the inning for a 5-2 lead.
York 6, Hood 0
- Natalie Rietema tossed a one-hit shutout for the Spartans, limiting the Blazers to just a single by Jordan Long (Middletown, Md./Middletown) in the second inning.
- The Spartans got on the board with a three-run third inning. Harhigh hit a two-run home run to start the scoring, which was followed by consecutive hits by Bri McKeown, Adams and Fritz to make it 3-0.
- In the fifth, Adams drove in a run with an RBI double and scored on a Hood error for a 5-0 York lead.
- Another error by the Blazers in the sixth allowed Sauers to come home for a six-run lead.
- Hood's best chance came in the second inning, when Long singled and Kaelyn Blocher (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) was hit by pitch to put two runners on before Rietema got Wilson to ground out to end the inning.
For the Opponent
- Rietema retired 12 of the final 14 hitters for the game two win. She struck out four and walked a pair.
- Sauers had five hits in the doubleheader and scored as many runs.
- Harhigh homered among her four hits and drove in three.
- Amanda Criss pitched a complete game for the victory in game one. She struck out eight, allowing two runs on six hits.
Up Next
The Blazers host Messiah on Apr. 19 in another MAC Commonwealth doubleheader.
